Confess your fidden faults.
Approach what you find repulsive.
Help those you think you cannot help.
Anything you are attached to, let it go.
Go to places that scare you.
I've been listening to a lot of Pema Chödrön's teachings lately, and it's from her that I hearned about Machig Labdrön (excerpts from her biography). She was a tibetan yogini and what I cited above is the advice she got from her teacher.
