My most dear, most precious, most kind, wish-fulfilling one,
According to my observation, your main deity or deities are Guhyasamaja, Vajrayogini and Tara Cittamani. You can choose according to whichever deity you have the strongest feeling for or feel closest to.

In order to actualize realizations of the path to enlightenment, the lamrim text for you is Jampel zhal lung, The Sacred Words of Manjushri. I’m not sure whether the translation is complete or not.

Meanwhile you can study Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand. According to my guru, who has total experience of these meditations, it has the clearest explanation, the perfect meditation on shamatha and bodhicitta. Study this text mindfully from beginning to end four times, so that it becomes a meditation.

Regarding effortful practice, meditate on the lamrim outline for the number of months indicated. Do this from beginning to end three times, then do effortless practice.

Preliminaries

• 60,000 refuge and bodhicitta. Do this with the feeling of bodhicitta.
• 70,000 water bowl offerings.
• 80,000 Vajrasattva. Generally, you can do this as a retreat with sessions, however many you can do, or if you are working, you can do one or two sessions each day, whatever you can. This advice relates not just to Vajrasattva, but to the other practices as well.
• 60,000 Guru Yoga. Recite the migtsema prayer according to the instructions. You can use Lama Chöpa in the morning and Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga in the other sessions.

It’s very good for you to do nyung näs, and you can try to accomplish one hundred. Here at Kopan there is one nun who did two thousand nyung näs already. She did the nyung näs in a place called Tsum, which is quite far from here. Also, Geshe Lama Konchog did two thousand nyung näs.

For you, nyung näs are best. It doesn’t mean you have to finish them in a short time, like in one year, although if you do them continuously you could finish them in eight months or so. You don’t need a time limit, but it’s very good for you to do nyung näs.

The main thing is reciting OM MANI PADME HUM. Even when you’re walking, always think to purify the six-realm sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and for them to achieve enlightenment. When the mouth is free, like the Tibetans, you can recite OM MANI PADME HUM. You can also recite the mantra while you are walking and even when you are dying.

If you recite the mantra, then it can become just habit. Otherwise, when we have some very heavy disease coming, or pain or something, or when we die, we can’t practice at all, we can’t think of Dharma at all. This happens to many people when they die, then they’re born in the lower realms because they can’t transform their experience into virtue.

Each week recite the Vajra Cutter Sutra. This is very good, fantastic. It’s a quick way to become free from samsara without even thinking about sentient beings—just thinking of yourself becoming free from the oceans of samsaric suffering, and quickly, quickly realizing emptiness.

On top of that, think it’s for the numberless sentient beings. Wow! It’s so important to free them from the oceans of samsaric suffering. Just as it is important for us to be free of suffering, like that, numberless sentient beings are important. Like us, they are so precious and want to have happiness.

Welcome to enlightenment and goodbye samsara, the oceans of samsaric suffering which we have been experiencing from beginningless rebirths. Goodbye.

Thank you very much.

With much love and prayers ...