Daily Practice Advice for Students at Kopan
Rinpoche gave this advice on daily practice to students at the 37th meditation course at Kopan Monastery, Nepal.
For daily practice, you can use the version I have prepared of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha yoga daily meditation practice. You can also meditate on the lamrim. Please also make your break times, between sitting meditations, a Dharma practice. This is how you integrate your break times and daily life with the lamrim, so that your life is always in accord with the Dharma, always collecting merit and purifying. Your life is always directed toward liberation from samsara. In other words, whatever you are doing, during break times or in sitting sessions, it is always something enlightening, not causing you to circle in samsara, but liberating you from samsara and bringing you to full enlightenment.
It is OK to practice Chenrezig guru yoga practice or of another deity, but otherwise you can practice Guru Shakyamuni Buddha yoga, then meditate on the lamrim. This way you have an actual practice. It is important how you apply the lamrim in your life.
You can also use other texts, such as Advice From a Spiritual Friend, Geshe Rabten's commentary, or other texts.