Study the Lamrim and Be Kind to Others

Dear one,
Vajrayogini is your main deity to achieve enlightenment quickly for sentient beings. In order to receive this initiation you need to receive another Highest Yoga Tantra initiation. So, in the future, take an initiation that is good for you from a lama. Most importantly, you must develop the mind of lamrim and the three principal aspects of the path. To achieve realizations based on guru devotion, first you should study and read the whole lamrim, it doesn’t matter how long it takes. You can read the lamrim of Pabongka Rinpoche [Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand], the Essence of Refined Gold by the Seventh Dalai Lama, and also teachings from geshes in your country who have taught lamrim from a long time. Those teachings could be helpful for you to get a clear understanding. It is not just only reading a lamrim book and meditating on the path, sometimes also you need to do practices of strong purification, accumulation of merits, and guru devotion.

If you can, do purification practices such as prostrations reciting the Thirty-five Buddhas' names, repeating Vajrasattva mantra before going to bed, and making extensive dedication such as the King of Prayers. If you can do this, it could benefit sentient beings, in the same way as the bodhisattvas and Buddha. Collect the merits of mandala offerings and making offerings to the great Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha every day. You can offer food, water, flowers, and lights in front of the altar, holy objects, Guru Puja merit field in the ten directions of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, or statues, scriptures and buddhas in the ten directions. So, every day, please do this as much as possible, you will create many merits. By generating bodhicitta you collect vast amounts of merit. Practice bodhicitta meditation: taking other sentient beings’ sufferings and giving them all your merits and possessions; giving to others and guiding them to enlightenment; generating loving kindness for all sentient beings; and offering service to all sentient beings with a sincere heart, knowing that sentient beings are the most kind beings in your life.

Be kind to others every day of your life, inside and outside your house, also to other beings such as animals, and you will collect merits. The other method to collect vast amounts of merit is to practice every day rejoicing in your own past, present, and future merits; the merits of sentient beings of the three times; and the merits of buddhas and bodhisattvas of the three times. This practice of rejoicing collects so much merit in a minute, in an hour, at any time. The highest merit is from practice with the guru: giving service; obeying advice; and doing things that please the guru, other people’s guru, and your own guru with whom you have made a Dharma connection.

Practicing like this is the best way to take care of yourself and others. When you practice like this with guru devotion, you purify negative karma, collect merits, and take care of countless sentient beings.

With much long prayer...