A student came to Rinpoche to discuss her guru and his behavior. Here is Rinpoche’s answer.

It is good that you haven’t said anything to others who are close to these lamas, as to have mentioned this to others would have been like a terrorist act, complete suicide, destroying yourself and others.

Your main goal in life is not just to study. Your main goal is to achieve enlightenment, to free all sentient beings from suffering and bring them to enlightenment. For that, you need realizations on the path to enlightenment.

Thank you very much for your kind letter.According to my observations, if you can, do these practices:200,000 Vajrasattva mantras100,000 prostrations to the Thirty-five BuddhasIf I say to do them based on bodhicitta, that may be too nice for you.

You must make a strong determination to have a new mind toward this person from now on. You must make a complete determination to see that person as a buddha, all the time.

A monk wrote to Rinpoche saying that while he had been doing prostrations, the thought came to him of Rinpoche having an ordinary thought, an ordinary attitude. The monk said it wasn’t his wish. It wasn’t negative but it wasn’t positive either. He felt great shame, and wanted to know how to purify it. Here is Rinpoche’s response.

A student was having a very hard time. When Rinpoche wrote this letter, the student had just completed a retreat that had been extremely painful and difficult.

Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who had been in a relationship and then  afterwards had become very negative about it.

My very dear Lisa,I’m very happy to know your thoughts. That is the correct way to think. There is no need to go into the details, otherwise there is greater danger of creating negative karma.