Requesting to Be a Nun
A new student wrote to Rinpoche asking to be ordained as a nun.
My very dear Charlotte,
It is very good for you to be a nun for sentient beings. Yes, you can do soon. You can wait for the Rinpoche I mentioned to come to your Dharma center and have the ceremony there. It would be good to request this from him beforehand. Before then, if there is time, then I can give you comegeyen, which means you can wear the robes, shave your head, and take the five precepts. This is done just before becoming a nun.
I will send you a list of practices that are best for you to do for your quickest enlightenment.
Every day, your main practice should be lamrim. The main purpose of your life should be to meditate on the lamrim, and to have lamrim realizations. Then, of course, there is the tantric path. Until you achieve guru devotion and the three principles of the path, spend more time on actualizing this and less time on tantric practice. When one has realized bodhicitta then one’s main practice is tantra, for the majority of the time.
With much love and prayers...