The root text says:

Between sessions, be a master of illusions.

As this indicates, during all our activities between sessions, having first aroused great compassion, we must work for the benefit of others, while maintaining illusory mindfulness and vigilance. The Intermediate Stages of Meditation says:

Should you suffer from physical harm and so on, regard the whole world as like an illusion, a mirage, a dream, a reflection of the moon in water, or an optical illusion. And think: “Since they do not understand the profound teachings, beings are overwhelmed by their destructive emotions in samsara.” And by thinking, “However I can, I must help them to understand reality,” arouse great compassion and bodhichitta.

And:

Then, slowly rising from the cross-legged position, prostrate yourself before the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions. Make offerings to them and recite praises. Then make vast prayers of aspiration by reciting Samantabhadra’s Aspiration to Good Actions and so on.

This is the clear advice given by the great pandita Kamalashila through his great compassion in these and other such sacred glimpses of the path to liberation.

 

Appearances, in all their variety, are mind’s magical manifestation,

And the nature of mind is and always has been unborn,

To those with wisdom beyond duality and transcending concepts,

In whom this is realized genuinely and with certainty, I prostrate.

 

This concludes the main practice, which is cultivating the two aspects of bodhichitta. The remaining points were referred to by the followers of the great aural lineage as “subsequent points”. It is said that their divisions and their order are not rigidly determined. In fact, there are even variations in the root verses, both in terms of number and sequence. What follows is according to the Seven Points.