Live Your Whole Life with Lamrim
Rinpoche sent this advice to a student recommending mind training and lamrim texts and advising them to study and practice lamrim for a most beneficial life.
My very dear one,
How are you? I heard that you got better. I was very happy to hear that, as for a long time you haven’t been well.
Read and study the Seven-Point Mind Training and do meditation on the outline. Also read the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation and try to put it into practice as much as possible.
Study Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, reading it again slowly. Use The Essential Nectar for your meditation, completing the meditations in this text each year. Practice guru devotion until you have a stable realization, and continue practicing renunciation in this life and the next. Also, bodhicitta and emptiness, so divide [your time between these] throughout the year.
This is the most important way to make your life most beneficial and the happiest and it’s what makes your life most beneficial for sentient beings.
Live your whole life with lamrim as much as possible, particularly bodhicitta, dedicating all your activities for the happiness of all sentient beings as much as possible.
I hope you enjoy these cards. I’m going to India and I hope to see you soon in Washington.
With much love and prayer ...