My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much for your letter. I really appreciate that you asked me such important questions about how to be a good mother, how to bring up a child, how to find a suitable partner, and how to make your life and work useful for others. I have tried to give you detailed answers, also because I don’t know how much of the Buddha’s teachings you have heard or read and understood. Although my explanations are based on your questions to me, my intention is that the information in this letter will also be useful to many other people who have similar questions and who are also in need of help.

As you read the letter, please don’t feel that I’m talking too much about these enlightening subjects. By “enlightening subjects” I mean that by coming to understand them, someone who was previously ignorant of these subjects is woken from their ignorant sleep and comes to understand many things they had never heard or read about before. Without learning Dharma, people usually have a very limited understanding of life, but then, by learning Dharma, their wisdom eye is opened and they are able to see more clearly.

As many of these topics will be new to you, please don’t worry if you don’t understand them right away. It will take time for you to understand them. You have to collect merits and also read this letter again and again. Then slowly, slowly you will be able to understand what I’m saying. It doesn’t happen immediately. The more merits you collect, the more you will be able to understand Dharma. Otherwise, without collecting merits, that is, without good karma, you won’t understand Dharma and you won’t have faith in it.