My very dear Julie,Your main deity for quick enlightenment and to be able to enlighten sentient beings soon, is Chakrasamvara (Five Deities). Kalachakra also came out well.

My very dear Javier,Regarding your request, I don’t have any qualities, but I accept. You try and I will try, OK? I have advised some preliminary practices. 

A student wrote asking about preliminary practices. Rinpoche sent the following advice.

Now it’s up to you, not me. If you can live for 100 or 200 years you can do the preliminaries of all four traditions. [Rinpoche smiled.]

My very dear one,

Dear Katrina,Yes, that is OK. Visualize your body as numberless [bodies] and large like the mountain, in the aspect of Chenrezig, and filling the whole space. With your hands in the mudra of prostration, then recite the Thirty-five Buddhas’ names.

A student asked Rinpoche about doing the refuge and prostration preliminaries in the morning. She also advised that after a callout, students had recited the Sutra of Golden Light 450 times, with dedications to Rinpoche's good health and the success of his projects. She asked Rinpoche about inviting students to recite the sutra for Saka Dawa.

My very dear Julie,

The reasons I give preliminary practices and meditation on the lamrim, explaining which deity to practice, are as follows:

 It is excellent, the best thing, that you did the prostrations and practices, because death can come at any time.