Prayers and Circumambulation for Spirit Harm
This advice was given to a student who wrote that they were experiencing strong spirit harm and blacked out when taken over by the spirit, so they had no memory of what happened at that time.
My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much for your kind letter, I am sorry there wasn’t time to meet, but I read your letter and checked for you.
It comes out very good to have the Yamantaka peaceful fire puja done for you. This is something I can try to do when I am at Kopan.
It comes out best for you to walk around the Bodhgaya Stupa five hundred times and to make this strong prayer:
“May I recover and have a most meaningful life by actualizing the root of the path to enlightenment, correctly following the virtuous friend, seeing the guru as a buddha, having that realization and following the guru’s advice, and by actualizing renunciation, bodhicitta and right view, then having tantra realizations, both uncommon and common, in this lifetime.
"May I be able to generate bodhicitta in this life and may my life be most beneficial for sentient beings. May I be able to actualize the path to enlightenment without any difficulties.”
So, make very strong prayers and go around the stupa. While you are going around, either generate compassion for all sentient beings or generate devotion to Guru, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
Also recite OM MANI PADME HUM aloud, not keeping quiet while you recite. In your mind take full responsibility for liberating the numberless hell beings, numberless hungry ghosts, numberless animals, numberless human beings, numberless suras, numberless asuras and numberless intermediate state beings; to liberate them from the oceans of samsara sufferings right now and bring them to enlightenment.
Think that the stupa is not only this holy object. Think it is numberless buddhas, Dharma and Sangha, and numberless statues, stupas and scriptures, which in essence are His Holiness the Dalai Lama. So every single statue, stupa, etc., is His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and this includes all the buddhas, Dharma, Sangha, statues, stupas and scriptures in the ten directions.
As you go around, visualize beams are emitted from the stupa to you and to all the sentient beings, and especially to you. Think this totally purifies your negative karma, sickness, spirit harm and obscurations collected from beginningless time.
Do this well after each time you go around the stupa, thinking you are totally purified. Please, please, if you can try this it would be so good, not just for sickness but for practice.
You also need to recite the Guhyasamaja root text four times. Unfortunately this is not yet translated into English. We only have phonetics, but hopefully it will be translated soon.
What makes your life most meaningful is meditation on the lamrim and living your life with bodhicitta motivation. This is the best.
With much love and prayers ...