My very dear Christian,This is really an opportunity to practice the path of patience. The purpose of practicing patience is to have immediate peace and happiness within you.

Very good. That’s very good. It’s very good if you get some aversion to your anger. It helps you to get free from samsara. If you develop aversion toward anger and toward all the delusions, it helps you to reach enlightenment quickly.

Regarding what you said about attachment being challenging for you while you’re on retreat, desire is very sneaky, like a snake. We think it’s our friend, but all it does is cause us suffering.

My attachment wants to prevent me from enlightening numberless sentient beings, from achieving enlightenment, from achieving all realizations, and from achieving liberation from samsara for myself and a good rebirth in the next life.

My dear one,Thank you for very much for your kind letter.It came out good to take Tibetan medicine: Tchen la, three pills a day for eight weeks; rinchen drang jor chenmo, two pills a week for nine weeks.

My very dear, most precious, most kind, wish-fulfilling Nicole,Thank you very much your kind letter. Yes, those pujas and so forth helped. You must have purified your karma and obstacles, so that is very good.

Ven. Sarah Thresher recalls a telephone conversation she had with Rinpoche in March 2002 about transforming pain by taking on the suffering of others.

My dearest Nina,How are you? You must think that you are the luckiest person in the world, that the happiest thing in your life is this sickness.

From the text Norbu Zangpo Dogpa: OM HE HE SU SVAHA / OM KU HE KATA SVAHA / OM SHU HE KA SHA SVAHAThe three grounds are below the ground: nagas and landlords; on the ground: animals; and above the ground: human beings.

Rinpoche sent the following letter to a student in hospital, who was in a lot of pain after a car accident.