These are the practices that came out best for you:

• Mandala offering: 2,000
• Guru yoga: every day. You can recite the nine-line, five-line, or four-line mantra.
• Dorje Khadro burning practice: 200,000
• Refuge practice (Sanskrit or Tibetan): 600,000
• Bodhicitta practice (tong-len): 400,000
• Highest Yoga Tantra practice: Most Secret Vajrapani. Your main deity is Gyalwa Gyatso.

Please read Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand by Pabongka Rinpoche three times. Try to have stable realizations, and continue until you do.

Daily Practice:

• Guru devotion: You can do from five minutes up to one hour.
• Each day, meditate on the perfect human rebirth. Go through how precious it is, according to Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand.
• Do one meditation on emptiness every day.
• Recite one lamrim prayer every day (the graduated path) and hymns of realization. Read through them mindfully. This is planting the seed to enlightenment every day in your mind.
• Tantric practice.
• Bodhicitta practice: try to have the realizations and complete the goal.
• Later, when you have taken the initiation, you can recite your lamrim prayer within your sadhana. It is at the end of your deity’s long sadhana.
• Thirty-five Buddhas prostrations: Try to do these each day.

Finish your day with:

• Vajrasattva practice: 21 long mantras or 28 short mantras. If you do not purify negative actions, then they increase, and each day they are not purified they double; this happens each day. While reciting the mantra, practice the four remedial actions. You can get more information on this in the commentaries.
• Rejoice in your positive actions.
• Recite the Golden Light Sutra, even a few pages every day, for world peace and healing the sick. You can even travel with it.
• Also, recite the Sanghata Sutra.

As a painter it is possible to combine your practice with your art, treating painting as a meditation, being in the moment, not labeling, and not feeding the ego.

Also, your parents are your most precious teachers. To be kind, you don’t have to be with them always, but be kind and patient with them. They have raised you with kindness and you would not be here without their help. They have taught you principles that have gotten you here. If you show kindness, it reflects what Buddhism has taught you, so they will not worry that you are being led by the devil. Be kind with them and don’t be agitated.