1. Visualize yourself as Namgyalma, with the long Namgyalma mantra at your heart. At the center of your heart is the dying person and around her are all sentient beings.

Please think in this way when you organize the recitation of the Tengyur. Of course you know this already, but it’s a reminder.

Dear Kim,I have checked. Please do the following pujas:Medicine Buddha puja: five times The long version of Medicine Buddha pujaIt is best if these pujas are done at Kopan Monastery and Nunnery.Also, please make:

You don’t need to worry at all, you don’t need to have any fear, because you have had a good life, excellent—you are a nun and you practiced sutra and tantra.Do tonglen as much as you can and rely on bodhicitta.

It is inappropriate to not tell her that she is dying, as that is withholding important and relevant information.

This is what needs to be done now:

Dearest Charlotte, 

You mentioned in your letter that you and your students care for dying people and that you are teaching your students how to provide a peaceful, compassionate and supportive presence for these patients.

What you said was very helpful. I think this was excellent, what you did. Also, it actually fits with who you and your friend are. You are both ex-hippy, useful guys. Wow – what the ex-hippy, useful guy did at the end of his friend’s life!

Rinpoche advised this mantra to alleviate suffering at the time of death.