Knowing the supreme qualities of the Three Jewels and thoroughly understanding the difficulties of samsara, take refuge with clarity and a profound aspiration to achieve the state of buddhahood beyond samsara. It is imperative to develop unshakable bodhichitta to benefit all the limitless numbers of sentient beings who have experienced uninterrupted difficulties throughout all their lifetimes. Develop unconditional love and compassion to liberate all beings from suffering. Again and again practice wishing bodhichitta and performing bodhichitta according to your capability, combining it with emptiness meditation.

To achieve the dharmakaya and the rupakaya enlightenment, we must remove the two obscurations, and this can be accomplished by accumulating both merit and wisdom. There are many methods of accumulation, but one that is simple and brings big results is the mandala offering practice. The means to instantly destroy all faults, downfalls, and obscurations is to meditate on Vajrasattva, who is lord of all the families of deities, and to recite the hundred-syllable mantra, the king of the secret mantras. To remove obscurations and increase merit quickly, the ultimate essence of the Vajrayana path is guru yoga combined with meditation on shamatha and vipashyana. Whoever follows these practices is making their life more meaningful, and therefore, the bardo of birth and life is more meaningful.

-- His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche