Practice Advice
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who was ill.
My very dear Jan,
Here are your practices to develop compassion and bodhicitta; you recite the longest Chenrezig mantra seven times a day. This is to develop compassion and bodhicitta, the root of the path to achieve enlightenment and the root of the path that enables you to enlighten all sentient beings. This is also for healing your sicknesses, so please practice well.
The southern continent is the best one in which to achieve enlightenment quickly by actualizing the path of compassion and bodhicitta, the basis of highest tantra, which enables one to achieve enlightenment in one brief lifetime in a degenerated age.
Doing 10 nyung näs for the most powerful purification and to collect extensive merit, to develop strong compassion for all sentient beings, that means also bodhicitta, and thus to quickly achieve enlightenment to cause all happiness to all sentient beings.
Lamrim meditation and the preliminary practices are according to the practice sheet. No other preliminary practice came out good for you.
The Diamond Cutter Sutra is your main preliminary practice. If you can memorize it that would be very good. Then you can recite it while walking or driving the car. Just do it as much as possible, don’t worry.
You are the most fortunate girl that it came out to do 100,000 Diamond Cutter Sutra recitations. You are the most extremely fortunate girl in the world. If you need to receive the lung (transmission) I can do it when I come back.
Your other preliminary practice is to write the Arya Sanghata Sutra twice.
With love and prayers...