Practices for Protection and Healing

In order to prevent hereditary problems arising, your two boys should recite The Dharani Called, “Possessing the Attributes of All the Buddhas”. The dharani is for this purpose and is from Lama Tsongkhapa.

My very dear one,
I am very, very sorry for the long delay in replying. I checked about your health and there are some things that you need to do:

1. Liberate 200 animals. Please follow my advice on how to liberate animals, by also taking them around holy objects and blessing water and sprinkling that on the animals.

In my observation this year comes out quite bad for you, so it’s good to continue to think, according to the lamrim, that death can happen any time, day and night. It can happen any time. Continue to think like that, not thinking, “I am going to live a long time, even after the world ends.” Don’t think, “Even after all the American people have disappeared, I am still going to be alive.”

2. Read the Golden Light Sutra four times.

3. Do 800 tsog offerings, for purification and reviving samaya. Do this according to Lama Chöpa. It’s possible this could be done at the upcoming Light of the Path retreat, with everyone. We can see.

4.  Have you received Vajrayogini initiation or not? It came out very good to take Vajrayogini initiation, as an opportunity for enlightenment for sentient beings but also preparation for death.

5. You should do Vajrasattva retreat and recite the mantra 40,000 or 50,000 times.

Then continue as much as possible to live your life with bodhicitta, with the thought of benefiting others day and night. See you soon.

With much love and prayers...

This water can be sipped several times a day with the visualization of Chenrezig blessing your body and mind, and especially purifying the negative karma that gives rise to cancer. Visualize strongly the water atoms as pure blessed energy that is cleaning away and transforming the cancer cells.

You can add this water to a larger container of water and when it is nearly finished you can bless the water again, and add to it, by reciting Chenrezig mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM. After reciting one mala blow on the water, then repeat as much as you can. When you finish, dedicate the merit to all sentient beings and concentrate, thinking that your entire body is completely purified of the cancer as well as all the negative karma.

There are some obstacles, but you can go there [to the center]. You need to do the Hayagriva torma offering prayer and mantra, and the short Medicine Buddha practice daily. The longer practice can be done sometimes. Do the seven-limb practice daily with the short Medicine Buddha practice. Pray to be able to benefit the center and sentient beings as much as possible with Dharma.

My very dear Matt,
Thank you for your news. I checked regarding the medicine. Not taking it is not good and also taking it is not good, so it seems the issue is something else.

What comes out very good is mantra water, blessed with Vajra Armor, so I will do this for you and have it sent to you.

Then it comes out for the Amitayus Long Life Sutra to be recited 100 times. The geshe there can do some and you can also ask others to recite some. You don’t have to do it, you can get others to do it for you.

With much love and prayers...

PS: I arranged a very big puja at Sera Je Monastery. I dedicated it for a number of students, so I also had it dedicated for you.

My very dear brothers and sisters,
Human life is much more precious than mountains of gold and diamonds; more precious than the world being filled with wish-granting jewels, because without this precious human life we cannot be liberated. With all this wealth alone, we cannot achieve a higher rebirth; it is extremely difficult to achieve a human rebirth and it is impossible to achieve the cessation of the oceans of suffering of cyclic existence, including their cause: karma and delusion.

Not only that, but the great liberation of enlightenment in order to benefit numberless sentient beings, cannot be achieved . Of course, that means we cannot liberate numberless sentient beings, who are most dear, most precious and most kind, from the oceans of samsaric suffering and their causes. Not only that, but we cannot bring them to the great liberation of enlightenment, which is the cessation of all the mistakes of the mind and completion of all the qualities.

So many people are suddenly getting cancer, swine flu and other life-threatening diseases and dying, and this is happening all the time. Those who have faith and who are able to practice the Buddhadharma, are able to purify the past negative karma and they will not experience illnesses such as swine flu.

I am offering a suggestion of a short practice that you can easily try to read every day. This very precious method from Buddha is in Buddha's teaching in the Kangyur: The Dharani Called "Possessing theAttributes of All the Buddhas". It is extremely worthwhile to try to do this. Recite it three times if possible. If not, recite it just once.

Buddha has explained the benefits of this practice in the text as follows: you will not catch a serious disease, you will not be harmed by the dangers of the four elements of earth, water, fire, and wind, poisons and life-threatening diseases. It will help you to not be reborn in the lower realms—of hell, the hungry ghosts and animals—and it will benefit the lives of all sentient beings.

The motivation is not only for our own health and success in life. Think of all sentient beings, to benefit their lives and to bring them peace and happiness, not only temporary, but ultimate peace and happiness.

Thank you very much.

With much love and prayers...