Crohn’s Disease and Spirit Harm

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
I am sorry for the long delay in replying to your letter, and also that there wasn’t time to meet at Kopan. I read both your letters.

Regarding your sister, do you think your family could recite The Prayer to Guru Rinpoche that Spontaneously Fulfills All Wishes (Sampa Lhundrupma) for her? This can be dedicated for your sister, with strong prayers to Padmasambhava. If not all your family, then at least you can do this for her. It also comes out for her to drink water blessed by mantra. I will make it for her and send it to you.

I checked regarding your health, and you need to take these Tibetan medicines:

• Khyung nga: one each day for three weeks.
• Thirty-seven aids to enlightenment: two each day for four days. (One in the morning and one in the evening.)
• Ngang chu pill (inner offering): five each day for five weeks. You can take all five pills at once.

You should take each of these separately, so have just one type of medicine at a time before starting the next one.

You need to have the Prajnaparamita read: all three texts—twelve volumes, three volumes and one volume. I will recite the one-volume text [8,000 verses] for you, and I will arrange for the Kopan Lama Gyupas to do the twelve- and three-volume texts.

The dedication I have asked them to make is for you to be totally free from disease, spirit harm, obscurations and negative karma, and to never ever be reborn in the lower realms again and to have a long and meaningful life. And by generating bodhicitta, to achieve tantra realizations in this life and at deathtime to be reborn in the pure land where you can become enlightened or to receive a perfect human body, meet the Mahayana teachings, meet a perfectly qualified guru and by only pleasing the guru’s mind, achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible.

If you can, read the Vajra Cutter Sutra eight times, but read it with bodhicitta, not only to cure your disease but for all sentient beings, to free them from suffering and bring them happiness and for them to have a healthy, meaningful, long life for sentient beings. So read it with bodhicitta motivation.

There is one mantra that you need to eat. This is something that I would have to make for you. It is a mantra that you roll up and it has to be written with Chinese ink, made with kusha [?] grass. This may not be so easy to do, so I am mentioning it, but it might not be possible to arrange this one, as you need all the specific things.

For your practice, first do the Method to Transform [How to Make My Lives Wish-Fulfilling: The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness] every day.

If you can, do 50,000 prostrations by reciting the Thirty-five Buddhas names. You can make a tape and play that and, in that way, learn the names. You can also get an MP3 from FPMT Store. You should have a picture [of the merit field]. I have one at my house in Aptos; I will ask Nyima to give this to you. This is very powerful for healing and also as a preliminary practice to purify defilements collected from beginningless rebirths and to have realizations in order to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings—that is the motivation.

Regarding the spirit harm you mentioned, it comes out for you to wear Liberating from Bondage mantra [Dharani Extremely Conquering from Bondage]. Also recite this mantra and the Lion-face Dakini. Do these two practices for two months.

This is my advice at this time, so please try this.

With much love and prayers ...