Practice Advice for Cancer

I checked quite a lot and am advising the following:

1.  The puja “Liberating from the harm of the naga and landlord” (lü-dang-sadag-gi-don-drol) needs to be performed by the lama who you know, and you must be present.
2.  Liberate 3,000 animals.
3.  I will send you blessed pills and water. It will take several days for me to bless the water and then I will send it by courier.
4.  Namgyal tong-chö [1,000 offerings to Namgyal] needs to be performed three times by Bati Khamtsen.

This is everything that needs to be done. 
 

My very dear one,
I am very sorry for the many eons of delay in replying to your message. I have been making prayers for you. Also, the Sangha in my house are continuing to do practices and prayers for you.

It comes out very beneficial for you to take two Hayagriva torma pills each day for three months. I can send these to you if you email me your address. These pills are made from the torma that I used in retreat.

Then, it comes out very beneficial for you to do the practice of Chenrezig Sangita. It is very good if you can do this practice every day and recite a few malas. This practice is for very strong purification. Visualize beams of nectar emitting from the deity and entering your body and mind, purifying you of all sickness, spirit harm, negative karma, and defilements. Also, you can think that beams of nectar enter all other sentient beings and purify them. In the beginning, focus mainly on purifying yourself, then, at the end, for maybe the last half mala or mala, focus on other sentient beings.

If you can, try to use this heavy sickness to purify many years, lifetimes, eons of heavy negative karma, which causes the suffering of the lower realms.

The second most important method is to experience this sickness as a way of developing bodhicitta, the ultimate good heart—cherishing and benefiting others—by thinking, “I have received all sentient beings’ suffering of this kind, and all the rest of their problems—that means oceans of sufferings of all sentient beings of the six realms—even the subtle obscurations of the arhats and bodhisattvas. I experience all this suffering for sentient beings.” This means liberating sentient beings from all suffering and letting them have all happiness, from temporary happiness up to enlightenment. Try as much as possible to think in this way.

With much love and prayers ...

Dear Joanne,
These are the practices you should do:

1. You need to receive the lung for Hayagriva mantra. Recite this mantra as much as you can. I can give you the lung over the phone.
2. Chag-sum needs to be performed three times. This can be done by the geshe here.
3. A torma offering to the nagas needs to be done six times. You need to do this only on naga day, which you can check in the Tibetan calendar. Geshe-la can do this.
4. Take jüng-nga (Tibetan medicine) twice a day for seven weeks. This can be got from Nepal. The Kopan monks can bring it with them when they come.

My very dear Jack,
Thank you very much for your kind letter. Thank you also for your help at the retreat center recently.

Regarding your prognosis of cancer—it looks very likely that it won’t return but there are a few things you need to do:

1. Practice Black Manjrushri—recite half a mala every day.
2. Practice Amitayus every day and recite the long mantra as much as you can, also read about the benefits.
3. Practice Medicine Buddha and Chenrezig every day. These are very important daily practices for purification. Maybe you are already practicing Medicine Buddha? If not, please start.

Perform all the practices with a strong bodhicitta motivation in your heart, with the wish for all sentient beings to achieve enlightenment. End the practice, also, with a strong dedication, and seal that with emptiness. Also, you can dedicate the merits to peace and happiness in the world, that there be no famine, war, torture, and poverty, also for mainland China to change its mind and give freedom to Tibet and offer Tibet back to His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

I will also make prayers for you and hope to see you soon.

With much love and prayers...

Dear Lorna,
It is also important to drink mantra water and take the following Tibetan medicines:

• First week: one manjor
• Second week: one moon crystal
• Third week: one ratna-samphel

Repeat the same cycle once more. Then I will check again to see how your health is.

Dear one,
Please do the following practices and then we will see if there is any change.

• Recite the name mantra of the Naga King, Lu wang gyi gyäl po: 7,000 times. People at the Dharma center can also do this, with strong prayers and concentration.
• Tara puja: do this at the Dharma center with Dharma brothers and sisters. Also, friends can do it at their home, wherever they are.
• La küg tse küg [hooking the life puja]: Please request the geshe to do this. Please send a moderate offering for him to do it.

I will do some puja for you now.

Let me know how you are after all of this has been done.