Eliminating Life Obstacles

My dear one,
Your life seems good in my observation. Maybe you did some things, such as circumambulation and prostrations, which could have purified the obstacles. That is possible. So, at the moment it came out good—not best, but good.

If you can, read the Amitayus Long Life Sutra two hundred times.

Also, if you can, do White Tara long life practice in the mornings. You can just recite one mala of the mantra. Use the short White Tara sadhana by Pabongka Rinpoche.

With much love and prayers …

My dear one,
The life obstacles that you have require some purification. The Prajnaparamita, the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras of the Buddha, must be recited to remove these obstacles. 

The Prajnaparamita needs to be recited five times in total: three times by the Kopan nuns and twice by the Tsum nuns.

The Prajnaparamita is the very heart to all the Buddha’s teachings on wisdom and is the direct antidote to our ignorance.

Much love and prayers …

• Tse Do, Long Life Sutra: Print the sutra ninety times. Also, read the sutra 300 times; the nuns at Kopan can do this.
• Gyab shi puja: to be done three times by Thutop Rinpoche’s monastery.
• Ma mo trü kang: Lama Zopa Rinpoche will do this.
• Liberate 300 animals.
• Practice White Tara meditation every day.

• Take Amitayus long life initiation before end of the year.
• De bung go mang: to be read twice by the Kopan monks.
• Have a Controlling Fire puja done this year.

• You need to do long-life meditation on White Heruka. If you don’t have the initiation then you can do White Tara sadhana.
• Print the Amitayus Long Life Sutra 500 times.
• Liberate 12,000 animals. Do it the FPMT way, as they do in Singapore, by circumambulating stupas and holy objects, putting blessed water on the animals and reciting mantras. It’s probably easier to do this in Singapore or you can do some in Bali.
• Have a long-life deity thangka painted on the Tibetan eighth. This means the thangka is drawn and completed, and also blessed or consecrated on the same day. All three need to be done on the same day, the Tibetan eighth. Even if all the details are not finished, the general picture must be completed.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Please read the Diamond Cutter Sutra 30,000 times, reading it as mindfully as possible. It can help you very much to realize emptiness and bodhicitta quickly, in order to be freed from samsara quickly and to achieve full enlightenment. It is incredible purification, unbelievable, and you collect unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable, most unbelievable merits.

One way of collecting merit is by making charity of your body to all sentient beings in the morning, noon and evening. Perhaps reading the Diamond Cutter Sutra collects more merit than that. Then dedicate all the merits in order to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings, by sealing with emptiness.

Then every day do prostrations—100 or more each day, to complete 100,000.

Every day prepare for death, not for living.

This is the practice for you to do in the next 17 months. This is what you need to do for sentient beings. Also, from your side, this is what is most important for yourself.

With much love and prayers...