A Most Precious and Meaningful Life

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you for your kind letter. I am sending you some cards, but I also wanted to send this to you by email, so you get it quickly.

If you can recite Vajra Cutter Sutra once a week for your lifetime, it is most unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. You will probably be able to memorize the text after some time. This is best for everything, not only for study. It is most important to actualize emptiness as quickly as possible and to free all sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and the causes; to free the numberless sentient beings in each realm from the oceans of samsaric suffering forever and bring them to enlightenment.

Also to develop wisdom with bodhicitta and develop bodhicitta with wisdom. This is the path of method with wisdom to achieve enlightenment.;

Do tonglen meditation every day. Basically, you can set a goal of 100,000 sessions, doing whatever you can in any number of days, continuing for years and years over your lifetime. In this way, you can complete 100,000. Or, without focusing on a number, you can just do tonglen meditation every day. That is the best Dharma practice.

This is a most powerful practice to purify the negative karma collected since beginningless rebirths and to collect the most extensive merits. It’s the quickest way to become free from the oceans of samsaric sufferings, the quickest way to achieve the pure land and the quickest way to achieve full enlightenment, so that is everything. It is the best cause for all the success.

You are great! What you have done is great!

Regarding your questions:

Prostrations by reciting the names of the Thirty-five Buddhas is always good to do. Even arya bodhisattvas who achieved very high paths still manifested millions, billions, zillions of holy bodies and did prostrations. So of course, with this one body, we must do it.

If you are going to live in celibacy anyway, it is much, much better to be a nun, then you are living in so many more vows and there is so much benefit because there are more vows. [Your negative karma is] purified much more and you bring greater benefit to sentient beings, to be able to free them from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to enlightenment. So if you can, do that, especially with bodhicitta. That is very, very good, so please do that.

From your information, what you said in your email and being celibate, it sounds like you are stable person, so that is very good, that is what is needed. It is the foundation of Dharma practice and you have already accomplished the practices.

Here I would like to thank you from my heart on behalf all the buddhas and bodhisattvas and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and on behalf of all the sentient beings who receive so much benefit from you, as your merits are dedicated for them. At the beginning of any practice, we start with bodhicitta and then at the end of any practice we dedicate the merit for sentient beings to achieve enlightenment.

Regarding your completion of these practices:

• 300,000 Medicine Buddha tsa tsas. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!;
• 300,000 refuge. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!
• 100,000 mandala offerings with refuge and bodhicitta. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!
• 100 000 prostrations to the Thirty-five Buddhas. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!

But you should think you’re not just prostrating to the Thirty-five Buddhas. Whether one buddha or many buddhas, all are in essence your root guru. Without thinking of your guru and only thinking of the Thirty-five Buddhas, it is so much less [merit]. It’s still good, but compared with thinking of the guru—if you are missing that they are in essence the guru, then it is poor.

• 100 000 Samayavajra in the context of Lama Chöpa. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!

And then leading nyung näs. This is incredible, this is incredible. All this purifies the negative karma and obscurations collected since beginningless rebirths and collects the most extensive merit in so many ways, by reciting the Chenrezig mantra and taking the eight Mahayana precepts, then doing Chenrezig meditation and prostrations by reciting the names of the Thirty-five Buddhas. In so many ways, this is a quick way to develop compassion for all sentient beings—for every mosquito, every single fish, chicken, dog, cat, goat, snake, maggot, chameleon, every penguin.

In the Antarctica, where the penguins gather for three months, it is so cold, with so much wind. Every minute, it is incredibly cold, so they all huddle together and every few minutes they have to change position. The ones inside, in the middle of the circle, move to the outside so the ones on the outer edge can move in and get warmer. It is incredible politics. They have to come there from very far away, it takes weeks; wherever they are, they have to come there, then the father penguin keeps the eggs and the mother goes away to eat food. When she comes back she knows exactly who her husband is, even though they all look the same, so it’s hard to recognize [her husband]. It’s really amazing. So [we develop compassion] for every single pitiful deer, zebra, monkey and snake; for every human being, sura, asura, and every single intermediate state being in the numberless universes, all those sentient beings.

Developing compassion becomes the quickest way to achieve enlightenment, the easiest way to achieve the pure land, and to bring all sentient beings to enlightenment by freeing them from the oceans of samsaric sufferings. Wow, wow, wow!

You’re also doing Lama Chöpa—wow wow, wow, wow, wow—that is great, great, great! It’s the quickest way to achieve enlightenment. This practice is in all the four sects and the ancient Indian pandits, the yogis, all achieved enlightenment in one lifetime based on the practice of guru yoga. This is what made them to achieve that. Panchen Losang Chökyi Gyaltsen looked at all the four sects and integrated them all into Lama Chöpa, not only guru yoga but also the lamrim, particularly lojong, using the problems, including death, in the path to enlightenment.

Thank you very much. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!

I checked regarding your further practice. You should use the Middle-Length Lamrim as your main lamrim, using the outline as a guide for your meditation. Please study it twice from beginning to end. That itself becomes meditation.

Vajrayogini is your main deity. You may have already known this, but according to my observation, that is what came out as your main deity to practice.

Thank you very much again. Numberless thanks for making your life precious.

This human life is so precious, having received this perfect human rebirth and then having met the Mahayana teachings, and not only that, but the Mahayana sutra teachings and the Mahayana tantra teachings, which bring enlightenment in one brief lifetime of degenerate time, and having met a perfectly qualified guru, such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is the real Chenrezig, a qualified perfect guru, so that doesn’t include me. Just about one time we have this opportunity, and you have made it so meaningful. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!

So happy life, being most beneficial for every sentient being, as you do every practice as much possible with bodhicitta motivation, and also at the end, dedicate for every sentient being. It’s so unbelievable, and no question that you get the benefits by the way.

Thank you very much.

With much love and prayers ...