Continue Nyung Näs
A nun had completed 65 nyung näs in one year, and was trying to finish 100 to offer to Rinpoche. Rinpoche wrote this letter to her, as her parents had expressed that they wanted their daughter to be close to them.
My dear one,
I am happy to hear of your retreat. You should be in touch with and stay where you can be in touch with your parents. I am happy that they support you, so it is good to be in touch with them.
Thank you for all your service and your unbelievable accomplishment. I think all the buddhas and bodhisattvas would agree with me.
So many eons of negative karma have been purified, and you are now closer to enlightenment and closer to the three principles of the path. Inconceivable merit is collected even in one session, by chanting the mantras and keeping the precepts with bodhicitta. This is most beneficial for sentient beings and pleases Chenrezig and the buddhas and bodhisattvas. You can be the twentieth-century Gelongma Palmo of the FPMT. What about that?
Everything comes from this practice: your happiness and the happiness of sentient beings. Your practice is a puja for everything: for me, your parents, everyone. You should tell them that you dedicate to them. Tell them you are trying to be of benefit to sentient beings and dedicating to the family and everyone. Tell them not to worry, that you life is like being in heaven or a pure land, because of all the opportunities to practice. Even though externally it is simple, mentally it is a pure land. I am looking at the FPMT having many people do nyung näs, 1,000 or 2,000. It is very good to have many people doing this.
Even in future lives you should continue to do nyung näs, until enlightenment.
I congratulate you on behalf of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas.
With much love and prayer,
Lama Zopa
"You are not alone because all the time there are numberless Buddhas and bodhisattvas surrounding you, everywhere loving you, guiding you, that is what they do.”