Thank you for being a good example of a human being—good-hearted, helpful, responsible for others, and kind to others every day of your life.

My very dear Lorna,Thank you very much for your kind letter. It has been a little while since I got it. Thank you for thinking about bodhicitta.

My very dear Charles,Thank you very much for your kind email, and I am sorry for the long delay in replying.

My giving practices to people, instructions, is so important.

My very dear Jan,Here are your practices to develop compassion and bodhicitta; you recite the longest Chenrezig mantra seven times a day.

Dear Laura,You can do the longlife retreat of Amitayus, reciting the long mantra ten thousand times. If you have the initiation of White Heruka, do some retreat on that, if you can. It need only be short.

A student with Stage Four breast cancer was about to have an operation, followed by chemotherapy. She was very weak and expected to be bedridden after treatment. The student wanted to change her will and leave most of her assets to Sera Je Food Fund, and she wrote to Rinpoche requesting his advice, prayers and blessings.

Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who was dying of cancer.

Rinpoche's first Letter, 2006Dear John,I have checked and am giving this advice. 

My very dear James,Even non-Buddhists should prepare for death every day, and especially as practitioners we should all prepare like this.