My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one, 
I am very sorry for the very long delay in replying to your email. It comes out very good for your long life to recite Buddha Amitayus mantra 100,000 times.

In Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand in the section on the Seven-Point Mind Training practice, there is one practice, a whole lifetime of practice, integrated into the five powers, so try to learn these, study these. [See Liberation, pp. 612–16.] Also read Practicing the Five Powers at the Time of Death. Think of these five powers and try to understand how important it is to practice these five powers as a lifetime practice, integrating your lifetime practice and the five powers at deathtime. We have to plan, to practice that way for when the death comes. Death can come any day for any of us, and so many people even today in the world die unexpectedly.

Do prostrations every day by reciting the Thirty-five Buddhas. Concentration is important; if you have no concentration then it just becomes physical exercise but does not become Dharma. To become Dharma the motivation to do prostrations has to become Dharma, so it’s not for the happiness of this life or our future lives in samsara. The practice has to be done with renunciation of samsara, so it becomes the cause of liberation from samsara and doesn’t become the cause of samsara. It should also be done with bodhicitta, so each prostration becomes the cause of enlightenment for sentient beings, to free the numberless sentient beings from each realm from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bring them to enlightenment. You can see now how it is most important to do each prostration with bodhicitta as much as possible. Also with emptiness. The easy way to mention is that you are doing prostrations in a dream. This means you see you are doing prostrations, but they are not truly existing from their own side. So like that, like an illusion.

Please make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta day and night.

With much love and prayers ...

[Note: Rinpoche also advised lamrim meditation and preliminary practices, not listed here.]