Which Practice to Concentrate On

Dear Colin,
By now you must be very close to practicing the special tantric conduct that comes just before achieving the unified state, enlightenment. Each person’s special conduct is not the same, it is different. Sometimes the conduct is being crazy (Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche gave examples like one practitioner’s special conduct was chopping up animals in many pieces, another built a multi-story house, which had absolutely no purpose). Maybe we need to ask His Holiness what special conduct you have to perform. I am sure yours will be very special….this is a joke at this moment, time wise.

Here is my advice – concentrate on the object of ahtung to complete shi-nä. The great advantage is that in one’s daily life you can keep the mind in virtue easily and naturally, without much effort. It helps to not create negative thoughts, which create negative karma, many of which happen in one day. It makes one’s life very stable and calm, very happy. The great advantage is one can easily generate realizations of renunciation and bodhicitta. This is the most important thing in this life, also emptiness. Also, it is easy to achieve the tantric path – gross and subtle generation stage, as well as the six yogas – the completion stage. That means it is easy to achieve the Dharmakaya and Rupakaya – after that, goodbye.

Do everything with your whole heart for the benefit of every hell being, preta, animal, human, sura, and asura being, including President Bush (so many hundreds and thousands of people hate Bush).

As I mentioned earlier, you need to put effort into renunciation and bodhicitta. Even if you are practicing shi-nä now, this should be the main aim. Without bodhicitta, whatever other realization you have doesn’t mean much, even the realization of emptiness.

Even tenth-level bodhisattvas can make mistakes in trying to benefit sentient beings.

With much love and prayers...