My very dear one,I was very happy to receive your kind letter.That is very important, what you discovered during retreat, discovering one’s own life, one’s own mind—that is the benefit of retreat.

To travel around and teach in the world would be very good at the moment. Then, after six months you can do retreat, to recharge your batteries. Your retreat could be lamrim with preliminary practices.

The following pujas and retreat should be done to remove life obstacles:

You should first go home to make your parents happy, then come back to the retreat center. A nun who is on retreat there was an abbess in a Chinese nunnery in California and it might be helpful for you to study lamrim with her.

In The Door to Satisfaction, I give the example of a monk of high spiritual attainment who, because he was in great pain, asked his disciple kill him. The disciple then suffocated his master.

A student who wanted to be a vet wrote to Rinpoche about various questions, including having to euthanize animals.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling Hannah,Thank you very much for your kind letter. It shows that your son is definitely some incarnation, some holy being or something like that.

Thank you very much for your hard work. Especially during my retreat I dedicated merit to you and all students. Thank you very much for your letter. I am sending some relics of Lama for yourself and the center. Please give my love to ___.

Dear Institute Director, most dear Nina, kind dear members and students,

Dear Lee, I recently had a discussion about your enthronement.