My most dear, most kind, most precious wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much your kind letter. It’s most important that you were a nun for ten years and you tried very hard. You studied the Master’s Program and the Basic Program for ten years, so you did much better than me. I didn’t finish my studies, so wow, wow, wow, you are much better than me.

Your study and knowledge is so good. You made so much preparation in the mind to actualize the path and to achieve enlightenment, so I rejoice, rejoice, rejoice.  There is no time for depression, only to rejoice, so much to rejoice in. You met His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Chenrezig, and Geshe-la. You received teachings from a perfectly qualified teacher, so rejoice, rejoice, rejoice. There is no time to regret and so much to rejoice in.

You met the Buddhadharma that shows the four noble truths and the path to achieve liberation from samsara. Not only that, you met the Paramitayana that shows the path to achieve enlightenment and to liberate the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to full enlightenment. You met the Mahayana Tantra where you can achieve enlightenment in one life and even quicker—with Highest Yoga Tantra you can achieve enlightenment in one lifetime. It is the quickest way to free the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to full enlightenment. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing. So there’s no time for depression. Wow wow, wow, wow, wow!

You met the lam-rim, particularly the instructions on the practice of lo-jong, the method to utilize the difficulties and problems in the path to enlightenment, in order to enlighten numberless sentient beings and free them from the oceans of samsaric suffering. All the sentient beings are so important, like you. Numberless sentient beings are so important like you; soooooooooooo important like you. You are just one person, however much suffering you have, however much happiness you have is just for one, so now look at the numberless sentient beings in each realm. Can you imagine?

You have done a good job. Now you are lay person, so you can still achieve enlightenment, you can still practice the lam-rim and lo-jong. That is the main purpose of your life. That is the purpose of your life, the purpose of breathing, that is why you are breathing.

If you can, study Liberation in the Palm of your Hand and Lama Tsongkhapa’s Middle Lamrim. That should be the main teaching, just like the wandering ascetics, the monks whose only belonging is the Lamrim Chenmo. They don’t have anything else. They don’t carry anything but the lam-rim, so be like that.

The lam-rim is the main reason to study, to meditate, so you have to actualize that, otherwise you will suffer. Without realizations on guru devotion, renunciation, bodhicitta, right view and particularly tantra, you will be suffering in samsara endlessly. Do you want to do that? I don’t think so. At least to be born in the pure land when you die, so then do Vajrayogini practice. As you have received the initiation, so it’s good to continue. 

Do the Six-session Guru Yoga, and do Vajrasattva practice in the evening. If you can, once a day if possible, do prostrations by reciting the names of the Thirty-five Buddhas. If it’s not possible to prostrate, then with your palms together, visualize the whole earth covered by your body, as Thousand-arm Chenrezig, and do prostrations to the Lama Chöpa merit field. Then at night do Vajrasattva practice and the King of Prayers, or the dedication chapter from  the Bodhicaryavatara [A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life, by Shantideva]. If you can do that, then it is very good. Then you can go to Amitabha’s pure land when you die. Also do the other dedication prayers, like Lama Tsongkhapa’s Prayer for the Beginning, Middle and End, A Daily Prayer to Maitreya Bodhisattva, and the Prayer to be Reborn in the Land of Bliss. [See Eight Prayers to Benefit the Dead.] Each night you can do a different prayer or if not, then at least do the King of Prayers. 

Attached is my morning motivation. [See  Daily Meditation.] In the morning if you can, do Lama Chöpa; if not, then do Ganden Lha Gyäma. That is very, very good, if you can try. 

But you should know it’s not just practice for this lifetime. The practice becomes preparation for all your lives, for eons, eons and eons, for all your future lives. It’s preparation for going to the pure land, then also for enlightenment, to be free from samsara, to achieve enlightenment and then to benefit all sentient beings and enlighten them.

Thank you very, very much. I accept whatever you confess, thank you very much. Don’t think you are alone.

Please continue to recite OM MANI PADME HUM and Chenrezig prayers. This is most important for yourself and for numberless sentient beings in each realm. Even nowadays, it’s so important globally, for this country and for this world, for your family and for yourself.

With much love and prayers...