My most dear, most precious, most kind one,
Please do 90,000 mandala offerings, and make 30,000 tsa tsas: Lama Tsongkhapa, Amitayus, White Tara and Namgyalma.
You must be a good practitioner, strong and not lazy, because it didn’t come out for you to do many preliminary practices. For some people, it comes out to do so many practices that even one lifetime is not enough; they would need two lifetimes to finish all the preliminary practices and to reincarnate as a human being. Thank you very much.
If you can finish reciting the Arya Sanghata Sutra each day that’s very good. If not, start the recitation and continue the next day. This is for your whole life. Please dedicate the recitations for all sentient beings to collect merit so they can achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible. Dedicate for all the students, for the success of all the FPMT projects and especially to build Maitreya Buddha statues in Bodhgaya and Kushinagar, as well as large Padmasambhava statues in the rest of the world. Dedicate also to actualize the path to enlightenment and to benefit others.
The main lam-rim text you should study is Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand. You have probably already read this. That is the main text. Study it two times at least from beginning to end. The things you don’t understand you can mark with orange color as an offering, like painting a buddha statue or thangka, or like offering color or robes to holy objects and so forth. In other words, mark the text in a respectful way. Don’t mark the texts with black ink. Marking texts in a disrespectful way creates negative karma and is a cause to be born in the lower realms. One Buddhist professor who is very good in Buddhism said that many times in the past he marked many manuscripts with black color right over the letters and created the cause to be born in the lower realms many times.
You can write down all the questions you have in a book. Write down everything you don’t know and then discuss these questions afterwards with the geshes or Western students who have done very good study in the Basic and Masters Program. If there is someone who has studied well, then they can help.
Meditate on the lam-rim outline for the number of months I have indicated. Follow the outline like that four times.
Deity to practice: Secret Vajrapani.
