My dear Alan,I hope you are very well, please give my greetings to your very kind wife and son who are helping the center so much, serving the Buddha and sentient beings as well as myself.

Rejoice every day. It is essential. This is how to be a fortunate person, as rejoicing eliminates ignorance and delusions and causes happiness. Nagarjuna advised kings who are busy to rejoice in others’ good works and dedicate the merit.

If you are performing the daily actions of your life with two attitudes, you are getting close to enlightenment.

This advice about the importance of the good heart was given to a student who was in the computer business. 

A student wrote that she had fallen in love with a monk and had physical contact with him. She asked how to purify the negative karma created.

That’s good advice for everybody. Everybody needs to simplify their life. That’s why there are so many problems, because people don’t simplify. It’s the answer to everything. The problem is everybody wants more and better of everything.

There are different meditations and techniques that one can try. When you come closer to the person or thing that is the object of your desire, you should think that you are coming closer to the lower realm or to the hell realm.

Depression can be a good thing, because it is a sign of purification, of having practiced Dharma.

My most dear, most kind, most precious wish-fulfilling one,Thank you very much your kind letter. It’s most important that you were a nun for ten years and you tried very hard.

Dear Abbie,A billion, zillion, trillion times, thank you from my heart for your sincere service, gold-leafing and sanding the buddhas. Thank you very, very, very much.If you are depressed, the best place to live is the hells.