My very dear one,
Thank you very much for your long, kind letter. Holly read it to me while I was lying down, with momos in my belly, resting, but I heard your letter well. The mo-mo’s didn’t disturb me.

I accept your apology and understand your difficulties. All these changes means there was karma created in the past, that’s all it means.

However, life is short. It looks like it is long, when we don’t think about it, because things appear permanent, but as we know, people suddenly die, so it can also happen to us. Just like other people suddenly die and are gone, the same can happen to us, and will sooner or later. Then, if we have created negative karma, it means we have to be reborn in the lower realms.

So, it is important to practice, especially purification, performing Vajrasattva practice in the evening and making prostrations to the Thirty-five Buddhas in the morning.

What makes your whole life most beneficial is bodhicitta, and the root of the path to enlightenment is correctly devoting yourself to the virtuous friend, in thought and action.

With much love and prayers ...