When you go to a buffet in a restaurant, think you are offering to the guru deity, thinking the food is not for you. It helps you not to feel you possess it, that this is mine. This helps you to practice the bodhisattva vows.

Student's LetterDear Rinpoche,With respect to our precious teacher Geshe-la’s health, our kind lama is manifesting the aspect of sickness, and I do not feel quite sure how to think about it.

My very dear Karen,

Student: Rinpoche, Geshe-la helped me a lot.

The most important thing that determines how quickly you reach enlightenment is how strongly you need, rely upon and devote yourself to your guru—the stronger, the quicker.It is your guru’s kindness that prevents you from falling into the lower realm

Guru devotion is the quickest way to collect the most extensive merit, the means to achieve enlightenment.

My dear Patrick,Thank you very much for your kind, sweet letter, telling me about yourself and how it has been for you.

To all my dear students, those devoted to Geshe-la and those who he nurtured in the Dharma,I understand your feelings upon the sudden great loss of Geshe-la, not just for the students in Italy but for the FPMT organization as a whole.

So, your mother took the initiation. Usually people would not dare come to an initiation because you have to sacrifice something, it’s a more serious thing, so then they don't come.

The idea of making a thousand offerings to Maitreya Buddha is advice from Kyabje Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche, a great yogi with skies of qualities, who unfortunately recently passed away.