My very dear one,Thank you very much for your kind email.

A student wrote with an extremely sincere request for Vajrayogini initiation and also explained a little about his practice.

A student asked Rinpoche about the preliminary practice of tonglen—she had missed a day and started again. Also, she believed she hadn’t taken a Highest Yoga Tantra initiation because she hadn’t maintained a visualization of the guru as one with the deity during the initiation.

Rinpoche gave the following advice to a longtime student, regarding their daily practice.

We were talking last night about how much a meditator who just completed a three-year retreat has changed. He used to get quite angry, now he is becoming soft like cotton. He is a very good practitioner.

My very dear, devoted, dedicated Buddhist organization of Mahayana Buddhists,I am very happy that we met that evening. Your request and questions stayed in my mind very clearly.

Rinpoche made the following comments on the tsog (offering substances) ceremony.

Rinpoche gave the following practice advice to a nun.

If you have so many practices to do, get a statue of Dorje Khadro, then you don’t have to visualize the deity—you can just look at the statue.This is a very powerful purification practice and you collect numberless merit.

The following are instructions on how to bless water for the chabtru puja—a purifying ritual done for you by a lama—or for washing and purifying yourself with the deity Dorje Namjom.1You can also do this with other deities that purify pollution, such