Ongoing practitioners: Whether you are engaging in the five preliminaries or other practices, if you practice the Guru Yoga of Padmasambhava at the beginning of each year and accumulate the heart mantra or the Seven-Line Prayer 100,000 times, you may dispel all the obstacles to your practice within that year through the blessing of Padmasambhava.

[Excerpt from Luminous Wisdom Book Series ~ The Guru Yoga Practice of the Seven-Line Prayer to Padmasambhava]