It is already a great success just to be able to work with your boss at all. She is doing the same job for you as a virtuous friend, or guru. A virtuous friend removes delusions.

My very dear Maria Elena,I heard you are sick and lost your job. It is the nature of the world—of samsara—for things like this to happen, because of our different past karmas, as you know well.

Rinpoche read your email last night and spent a long time checking. This is what came out:Rinpoche will do Hayagriva puja.Read the Arya Sanghata Sutra at least once, but [more] is better.

Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who wanted to get a job. This advice was on a handwritten card, and has been lightly edited for publication.

Rinpoche checked quite a bit and advised the following:1. Make King Gesar of Ling prayer flags and put them in a high mountain place. King Gesar is said to be an incarnation of Padmasambhava.2.

For success, make water offerings, light offerings, and whatever other offerings you can, as many as possible, every day.

My most dear Leanne,How are you? You were saying you had difficulties in finance. I thought you might have wasted a lot of money after you separated from your husband, if you were not being careful.

Dear Lin,Although your friend continues to live a life of luxury, it doesn’t mean he has money and is hiding the money.

A woman riding a bike was hit by a car and died in hospital two weeks later. Her family blamed the driver of the car and was trying to extract money from him. 

Of course, the world economy is going down, but even if the world economy is going up, there are many people in the world going down. That happens—that is the explanation and description of karma.