Rinpoche gave the following advice on making offerings to pretas (hungry ghosts).

Whenever we think the guru is happy, that we are pleasing the guru, then any practice we do is guru yoga.

This wonderful, unbelievable practice comes from Lord Buddha’s teachings found in the Kangyur, in the section on tantra.When we make offerings of incense (in powder or stick form), flowers, food, etc., recite the following mantra 21 times and then of

We have to remember that Buddha said in the sutras that if we do nonvirtuous actions—if we are always habituated and made familiar with that—then we will also follow negative karma in the future.

Sexual misconduct means sexual relations with a person who has a partner – wife, husband, and so forth.