Preliminaries and Personal Deity
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A student asked Rinpoche for advice about life practices, their main deity and preliminary practices.
Your deities are Yamantaka and Secret Vajrapani. Yamantaka is your main deity (Tib: yidam), also Secret Vajrapani. You can take those initiations and also Secret Hayagriva.
Preliminaries
- Refuge: 10,000 times.
- Migtsema recitation on the basis of Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga: 400,000 times.
- Diamond Cutter Sutra: Read this once a week.
Liberation in Palm of Your Hand is the main lamrim text for you to study from beginning and end. Read this once and practice effortful meditation by following the lamrim outline, then do effortless meditation.
Thank you very much. This is the message for you according to my observation.