Eliminating Life Obstacles

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Please read the Diamond Cutter Sutra 30,000 times, reading it as mindfully as possible. It can help you very much to realize emptiness and bodhicitta quickly, in order to be freed from samsara quickly and to achieve full enlightenment. It is incredible purification, unbelievable, and you collect unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, most unbelievable merits.

One way of collecting merit is by making charity of your body to all sentient beings in the morning, noon and evening. Perhaps reading the Diamond Cutter Sutra collects more merit than that. Then dedicate all the merits in order to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings, by sealing with emptiness.

Then every day do prostrations—100 or more each day, to complete 100,000.

Every day prepare for death, not for living.

This is the practice for you to do in the next 17 months. This is what you need to do for sentient beings. Also, from your side, this is what is most important for yourself.

With much love and prayers...

• 100 recitations of the Diamond Cutter Sutra.
• Wear the “Liberating from Bondage” mantra.
• Liberate 80 animals. Make dedications for the animals to always have good rebirths while they are in samsara, until they achieve liberation and full enlightenment.
• Make 70 long-life tsa-tsas, with White Tara, Amitayus and Namgyalma for long life.
• Recite the Mantra Promised by Tara.

Rinpoche also said that there will be some obstacles in the next two months, but things should then get better next year.

There seem to be some life obstacles for you this year, and there are some things you should do:

1. Liberate 115 animals, with practice according to how Rinpoche does animal liberations. The animals can be worms, etc.
2. Recite 200,000 Vajrasattva mantras. Do one or two sessions a day, and then do retreat for a week or a month etc., sometime. Between doing that, you can also count the mantras more casually, for example, when walking, etc. In this way, try to finish 200,000 mantras.
3. Recite the Sutra of Liberation 40 times.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you for your kind letters. I read them and regarding your question, yes, you can go to the center to study the Master’s Program, but there are some obstacles, so you need to:

• Do the extensive Medicine Buddha puja four times
• Liberate 100 animals. These can be insects or worms. Please do this according to my advice on how to liberate animals, by taking them around holy objects, etc. [See also Liberating Animals, available from FPMT Foundation Store.]

You should do Amitayus long life retreat. You can recite the short mantra or the long mantra. If you recite the long mantra, then you need to do 10,000 mantras; if you are reciting the short mantra, then do 100,000.

Then after three years, you can try to be a nun.

Please continue your life to be beneficial to all sentient beings, with a good heart and bodhicitta as much as possible. This is most beneficial for sentient beings, so when it becomes most beneficial to sentient beings, then naturally it becomes beneficial for yourself.

With much love and prayers...

My very dear one,
I am so sorry for the long delay it took to reply to your kind email. When I checked about your life practices, it seems you have some life obstacles, so first you need to print 140 Amitayus Long Life Sutra, and also read the sutra.

Maybe after some time you can become a monk. Before that, take eight Mahayana precepts many times; as much as you can.

What makes your life most meaningful is meditation on the lamrim, and to live your life with bodhicitta motivation. This is the best.

With much love and prayers...

• Take long-life initiation
• Go around Swayambunath
• Recite 500,000 White Heruka mantras