My very dear one,
Thank you very much, a billion times, for showing me your sincerity and especially your prayers. You are much better than me. A billion, billion times better than me. Even when you have no time to meditate, still you do the prayers. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. That’s very good. It protects you from the karma of missing prayers and breaking promises. I’m very happy to hear that, your sincerity.

I checked and if you become a monk that came out best. You can die any year, month or week. There’s not much time to live, therefore it’s good to be a monk. In Bendigo, Australia [at Thupten Shedrup Ling Monastery] they need more monks and you can help the center. As you know, the gompa just got burnt by fire. If I was there maybe they would blame me, thinking I was the one who burnt the gompa. Fortunately I was in Bodhgaya and very far away, otherwise I would be very easy to blame.

You have had plenty of girlfriends, so that’s enough. Otherwise you get drawn and stuck endlessly in the quagmire of samsara, like an elephant drowned in the mud with all the samsaric suffering. Every life has the suffering of relationships, of husband and wife. That’s just human life, without talking about hell and the lower realms. Look how much the world is suffering. So much.

If you can read the Arya Sanghata Sutra and finish at least one recitation each week, that’s very good, fantastic. The motivation is not just for you, but for the happiness of all sentient beings to achieve enlightenment. For that you have to achieve enlightenment, actualizing the whole path, so read the Arya Sanghata Sutra.

I have one more story for you. I told another old student that he was going to die tomorrow, so I told him that today he should become a monk, a gelong, a pure gelong, then die tomorrow.

With much love and prayers...