My most dear, most kind, most precious wish-fulfilling one,

I’m very happy to hear that your favorite practice is bodhicitta and the Eight Verses. This is so great. Please continue to make your life most beneficial, as much as possible, with bodhicitta.

Eating, sleeping, even working to get money, motivate so that it is for numberless sentient beings, to benefit them. That means you are living your life for others. Eating, sleeping, taking medicine for others. Even taking medicine, you can say this prayer, “May my life be most beneficial for sentient beings,” and then with that intention take the medicine.

With much love and prayers ...

P.S. I am going to India soon. First I will go to Nepal for the annual one-month course, then I will go to India. I have to give some lungs that were written by the Fifth Dalai Lama and Kalka Jetsun Dorje, a very, very highly realized being. After that I will attend His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s teachings.

Please read the letter I wrote to another student who was doing retreat. During the retreat she came across a dead possum that had been hit by a car and she went up to look at it, even though it was very disgusting and there was blood everywhere. She saw that four babies had survived. The other people on the retreat told her to leave it, but she was compelled to pick up the babies and then she cared for them for the rest of the retreat, feeding them every two to three hours. She arranged for them to be cared for until they could be released back to the wild. I thought this letter would be good for you to read.