Every Day, Prepare for Death

Every Day, Prepare for Death

Date of Advice:
January 2015
Date Posted:
April 2016

An old student had life obstacles. Rinpoche advised him to read the Diamond Cutter Sutra and do prostrations every day.  

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Please read the Diamond Cutter Sutra 30,000 times, reading it as mindfully as possible. It can help you very much to realize emptiness and bodhicitta quickly, in order to be freed from samsara quickly and to achieve full enlightenment. It is incredible purification, unbelievable, and you collect unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, most unbelievable merits.

One way of collecting merit is by making charity of your body to all sentient beings in the morning, noon and evening. Perhaps reading the Diamond Cutter Sutra collects more merit than that. Then dedicate all the merits in order to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings, by sealing with emptiness.

Then every day do prostrations—100 or more each day, to complete 100,000.

Every day prepare for death, not for living.

This is the practice for you to do in the next 17 months. This is what you need to do for sentient beings. Also, from your side, this is what is most important for yourself.

With much love and prayers...