This practice text contains vital elements that make our daily lives most meaningful. Use mantras given in sutra and tantra to empower your speech and bless your body so that others can benefit simply by seeing or hearing you. Learn powerful phrases to imbue every action of life with bodhichitta mindfulness. Create continual merit through the yoga of eating and making extensive offerings. Take the Eight Mahayana Precepts and experience the power of living in vows for a day. These methods hook blessings, clear obstacles, and transform our actions into what is most beneficial, for ourselves and others.

“Taking the essence all day and night; that is what we have to do this one time when we have found this good body of freedom. Aaaaaaall day and night. It is not only when you are happy, when you feel good, when you are in a good mood. You must pick up the all, pay attention to that: To take its essence all day and night.”- Lama Zopa Rinpoche.