Neurological Disorders
Polyneuropathy, Fibromyalgia and Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
A student had endured many physical challenges for six years, including severe illness and hospitalization. They now lived with polyneuropathy, fibromyalgia, sleep problems and electromagnetic hypersensitivity, and as a result, had lost their home and job.
My most dear, most precious, most kind wish-fulfilling one,
I am sorry this took so long. I checked regarding your health and this is what came out:
- White Umbrella Deity (Dukkar; Sitatapatra): To be done eight hundred times by the Kopan nuns.
- Extensive Medicine Buddha puja: To be done twice.
- Jungshi torma [four-element torma offering].
- Torma Gyatsa puja [extensive torma offering puja]: To be done three times.
- Ga gön puja.
This is my advice at this time. Please try and as much as possible live your life with the thought of bodhicitta.
With much love and prayers ...
Neurodegenerative Disorder
A student with health issues, possibly Lewy body dementia or Parkinson’s, wrote to Rinpoche requesting life practices. She also spoke of her late daughter, who used a wish from the Children’s Wish Foundation to help build a school in Africa.
My most dear, most kind, most precious wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much for your kind letter. I was very happy to receive it.
I checked regarding your health and you should eat mani pills: two a day for five months. These pills have been blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and many thousands of monks. You also need to take the inner offering pill: three pills each day for four weeks.
You need to recite Black Manjushri for your health; not just recitation but doing the practice. Practice this for one month and see what happens, then check after that.
That’s very amazing about your daughter and her compassion. I highly admire that.
Water bowl offerings: 90,000. You can do these in a group, together with other people. At Kopan Nunnery, each year many people offer water bowls, for example, around one thousand water bowls. Each person doesn’t offer one thousand, but as a group, you can count the number of bowls that the whole group has made. In this way you can count all of them, even though you only did a part, so in this way you can finish quickly. This happens each year at Kopan Nunnery. If this is not possible, you can arrange it at a center, or maybe there is a center near you which is arranging this kind of retreat. You can also do it by yourself at home, but that just takes longer.
Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri (Jampel Tsenjö) recitations: read this prayer every day. This came out for you, so it must be according to your karma. It develops Dharma wisdom and unforgetfulness [recollection]. Geshes who recite this prayer every day can remember all the teachings that they learned in Tibet; they can even remember after forty or fifty years and not forget. This practice develops wisdom and we collect unbelievable merits; it’s so good.
Four immeasurable thoughts: 150,000 recitations.
Tonglen meditations: 50,000.
The main text for you to study is Lamrim Chenmo. Study this three times from beginning to end. Read it mindfully, so it is a meditation from beginning to end. Anything you don’t understand you can write down in a book and ask a student or geshe who has studied the lamrim extensively. If the Lamrim Chenmo is too big, an easier and simpler lamrim is Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, then it is simpler to understand. If you prefer to read Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, study the text three times from beginning to end.
Cycle through the lamrim outline four times to gain effortful lamrim experience, then do effortless meditation.
Your main deity is Vajrayogini, but in order to receive this initiation, first you need another Highest Yoga Tantra initiation. Heruka initiation is best. You need this as a basis, before you can take Vajrayogini initiation. If not Heruka, then any other great initiation like Guhyasamaja, Kalachakra or Yamantaka. After you take Vajrayogini initiation, you can do the retreat.
Taking Highest Yoga Tantra initiations and doing the practice is the quickest way to achieve enlightenment in this life, so we are able to free the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bring them to enlightenment quickest.
Movement Disorder
This advice was given to student who had a disorder affecting the head and neck which caused continual movement at the back of their head.
Rinpoche checked and advised the following:
- Lu zong puja: To be done by the umdze of Kopan, with some other monks. If you can, organize for this to be done at Kopan and make good offerings, if you can manage that. You can email Kopan to discuss when they can do this and so that they know to dedicate for your health issues.
- You should read Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri (Jampel Tsenjö) six times, and also request the Kopan monks to read it six times.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
A student wrote that her son, who was two and a half years old, had begun to show signs of autism (ASD), with repetitive behaviors, confused speech, a lack of emotional response and social withdrawal.
Dear one,
Rinpoche spent a long time checking today for your son and this is what came out:
- Chanting the Names of Noble Manjushri (Ārya-mañjuśrī-nāma-saṅgīti): To be chanted 100 times by the Kopan nuns. Tell the nuns about the problem and give your son’s name, so all the nuns can pray for him to be immediately healed and have meaningful life, for him to generate bodhicitta in this life, to never be reborn in the lower realms and to achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible.
- Lion-face Dakini prayer and mantra recitation: To be recited 2,000 times by Shelkar Monastery in Nepal. The mantra recitation is like what we do after the Heart Sutra, dispelling the obstacles. They can recite half the mantras (1,000) in the normal way and the other half (1,000) they can recite the mantra backwards.
If you wish, you can also try this Lion-face Dakini practice, making strong request to the Lion-face Dakini.
This is Rinpoche’s advice.
Spinal Cord Nerve Damage
A student wrote that his sister had been suffering from damage to the spinal cord nerves, which happened during the birth of her first child. One leg felt constantly hot and she had also lost sensitivity in that leg.
My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
I checked and Western medicine came out OK, but the rest didn’t come out.
Your sister needs the following:
- Drukchuma puja: to be done three times by Geshe-la, if possible. I will also try to do it. If you request this from Geshe-la and make offerings etc., you can give her name and also explain her sickness, and say this is what came out in my observation.
- Jung shi torma (Torma of the Four Elements): to be done by the Kopan umdze.
- She should take the jenang of Vajrapani, Hayagriva and Garuda from Geshe-la.
Regarding how to help her, you can do tonglen. Please read my advice on this.
I am also doing prayers.
With much love and prayers ...
Precious Pills and Pujas for Neuropathy
This advice was given to a student who had severe health problems, with pain in the spine and nerves.
Rinpoche checked a lot regarding your health last night, and this is what came out:
- For you to take the Thirty-seven Aids to Enlightenment precious pill. Take five pills a day for six days. You can take two pills in the morning, one in the afternoon, and two at night. This pill is especially for nerve damage. Rinpoche himself takes it time to time.
- You should take two Mani pills always (forever). These pills have been blessed by Chenrezig, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and many monks and are very powerful. You should always take two a day.
- The puja called chab tor needs to be done for you five times. It is in English.
- Drukchuma puja also needs to be done. Rinpoche will do this.