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Practices for Purification

My very dear one,Thank you very much for coming all the way from Japan, so we are able to meet this time.You asked about purification practices. It came out good to recite the Arya Sanghata Sutra every day for four years.

Tsa-tsas for Purification and Merit

Dear Bob,To repay kindness, for your own purification, and to collect merit, please make a total of 90,000 Lama Tsongkhapa and long-life tsa-tsas. Also, please make a small stupa.With much love and prayer... 

Benefits of Vajrasattva Practice

If you want others to love you, you must first love others. If you benefit others, naturally they will benefit you. The cause and effect of karma is as simple as this.

Diamond Cutter Sutra and Prostrations

My very dear Kim,Thank you very much for your kind letter, I want to advise you to recite the Diamond Cutter Sutra seven times and, every day, perform 100 prostrations by reciting the Thirty-five Buddhas’ names.

Severe Asthma

My very dear one,Thank you very much for your email. I am sorry for the long delay in replying.

Angina and Health Issues

My most dear most precious, kindest, wish-fulfilling one Anita,How are you ? I am sorry about your mother, so I want to say you can pray for her while you are eating and while you are in the toilet.

Congenital Heart Murmur

This advice about making life meaningful was give to a student who had written to Rinpoche about a congenital heart murmur.

Father Ill 

I have checked and said this is what needs to be done:Gyab-shi Mamo-trü-kang Dü-kar: 10 times, by the monks at Kopan Monastery