This letter sent to a student includes instructions on lamrim meditation and other prayers and practices, and advice on how to practice sleeping Dharma.

From time to time, each month, you should take the eight precepts/24-hour Mahayana vows. This should be done especially on the special Buddhist days, such as enlightenment day, Shakyamuni’s birthday, descending day, etc.

Rinpoche gave this advice to a nun who had disrobed and started taking drugs, but had later stopped. She sent a letter of confession, also saying she had stopped doing all her practices.

A student, an ex-monk, stopped doing all his practices, had children, then wrote after a few years asking for guidance. In that time he had become very disillusioned.

If you wear Namgyalma protection it purifies you all the time, so it's good to wear it, but don't put it in your trouser pocket because the protection will go down.

My very dear, most kind, most precious, most wish-fulfilling mother,Thank you very much for your kind letter. I just arrived from Mongolia, where they did a 108 million Mani Retreat.

Most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling Anna,Numberless thanks for your long-life mantras; now I should try to make my life most beneficial for sentient beings.This practice also makes your life positive and pacifies life obstacles.

A student advised that her father had recently recited over two million manis [Chenrezig mantra] in just a few months at home. It was his first time reciting this mantra and he was going to continue daily recitation.

Any object used for making sound offerings can be blessed by recitation of OM PADMO USHNISHA BIMALE HUM PHAT seven times and by the breath [blowing on the instrument.] Then for whoever hears that sound, the five heinous crimes [and lighter negative a

AH AAH SHA SA MA HARecite this mantra to liberate those who are born in the lower realms. You can place the mantra on the dying body, to purify that being’s negative karma and transfer the consciousness to a pure land or a higher realm.