Practice Advice for Life

My very dear Jane,
Whatever practice you do, you need to do it within the context of a guru yoga practice. This could be the Guru Puja, Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga, or the Six-Session Guru Yoga.  Whatever preliminary practice you are doing (prostrations, water bowl offerings, lamrim meditation, etc), base your practice on that and stop at the appropriate place, so that whatever you do is combined with guru yoga.

Generally, I checked and it comes out very good for you to do more study of Dharma, when you can. Please find below my advice for your practice:

• Prostrations by reciting the Thirty-five Buddhas’ names: 300,000
• Mandala offerings: 10,000
• Vajrasattva (at night): 21 or 28 mantras
• Dorje Khadro (burning offering): 10,000
• Water bowl offerings: 6000
• Tsa-tsas: Deity: Thirty-five Buddhas and Mitukpa: 2,000
• Four Immeasurable Thoughts: 300,000
• Guru devotion: three months
• The graduated path of the lower scope: two months. Spend one week on the perfect human rebirth, one week on its usefulness, one week on the difficulties in finding it again, one week on impermanence and death, one week on the lower realms, and one week on karma. In this way divide it up according to the outline in Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand.
• The graduated path of the intermediate scope: three months
• The graduated path of the highest scope: bodhicitta: one month; emptiness: five months

Keep going back through the lamrim and whenever you achieve a realization, then start from the next one. It is very good if you can do a little meditation on guru devotion every day, regardless of what section of the lamrim you are up to, also a little on emptiness. Do a little of these two each day; it could be five or ten minutes. Then follow the outline in the lamrim and keep circling in this way.

Your main aim in life is to achieve the lamrim realizations, renunciation, bodhicitta and right view.