My most dear Kristen,
Thank you very much for your kind letter. All your thoughts are the best thoughts: to live according to the refuge precepts and later to become a nun. I can give you the precepts by telephone, or later when we meet, once you have an understanding of the precepts.

I like this prayer wheel very much, and since I like you very much and am very happy with you, it is exactly the same if you have it. I especially appreciate your dedication to benefiting others, reciting Vajrasattva while you are doing cashier work, and memorizing the Diamond Cutter Sutra, as I have asked. I asked you seriously to do this and already you have memorized part of it. That is amazing, and it means that in the future you might be able to recite the Diamond Cutter’s Sutra while you are at the checkout.

This prayer wheel, besides making you happy, can make many people happy. Seeing the prayer wheel liberates so many people from the lower realms, by purifying even very heavy negative karma, the five uninterrupted negative karmas of killing one’s father or mother, harming a buddha, killing an arhat (one who has completed the five paths, has removed delusion and karma, and is free from the sufferings of samsara), or causing disunity among the sangha. So, there is no question about it purifying the ten non-virtuous actions.

Many people will remember being at Wal-Mart and seeing this prayer wheel. Each time they remember, it will purify their mind and plant the seed of enlightenment. That means it causes them to achieve all the realizations from guru devotion, the three principles of the path (renunciation, bodhicitta, and wisdom correctly realizing emptiness), the two stages, and full enlightenment, the two kayas. That means you are liberating all those sentient beings every day and bringing them to enlightenment. That is why, when I travel with my prayer wheels, especially the hand prayer wheels, I carry them through the airport so that many people can see and I turn them from time to time. Also, the prayer wheel is beautiful, with a crystal on top, so people really get attracted to it and stop and look at it, and while they are looking at it, it purifies them. Isn’t that a great business!

I am also sending you a text on some of the benefits of prayer wheels, which I have translated.

With much love and prayers...