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Each year, receive empowerment and blessings. If you live to be a hundred years old, you will receive a hundred empowerments. Even if you are born as an animal in the next life, you will be born with great power. Therefore, this infallible cause and effect of good and evil must also be regarded as a place of great faith. Jowo Je Lhachig (Atisha) said, seeing others slightly neglecting the results of actions, 'Be careful of the results of actions! The results of actions are very subtle, do not have a small mind. What will happen in the next life?' Then he shed tears. Therefore, do not take all violations of the three vows lightly, but with remorse for what you have done in the past and with the determination not to do it even if your life is at stake in the future, strive to confess and purify. In this way, although you do not have to experience the ripening results, it will take a very long time to obtain the qualities of the path stages, so you must strive not to degenerate from the beginning. To rely on confession and recklessly engage in transgressions is like relying on medicine and recklessly taking poison. In short, I think like this: rather than just having intermediate natural goodness and being born in the heavens again and again, it is better to take the three vows, even if you fall into the lower realms again and again because of breaking them. Moreover, 'The results of actions and the ripening of actions are inconceivable,' so the ultimate determination of such things cannot be measured as they are until all-knowing wisdom is obtained. For some aspects, I am still willing to explain with scriptures and reasoning. Thus, this question you have asked, venerable one, I know is a very important key for those who practice all the teachings without contradiction and make human life meaningful. This is just what I thought of immediately and wrote down. Please explain in detail the meaning of the sound letters you mentioned. This was written by Khenpo Tsering Tashi, the secretary of Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, the great Vajradhara of the Land of Snows, and Geshe Sonam Chodrup of Reme Monastery, who has heard much but is foolish in meaning and has the name of a wise man, from the solitary place of Palpung Monastery. May this text be pleasing to the minds of all. Sarva Mangalam! Auspicious! 'Answers to Questions on the Three Vows: Sunlight Illumination,' by Reme Khenchen Sonam Chodrup.