Stomach, Liver and Digestive Problems

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 ...

• Long-life tsa tsas: 80
• Animal liberation: 1,000 times
• Namgyal tse chog puja: To be done twice at Sera Je Monastery
• Su Chen mantra: To be recited by a monk nine times
• Drink water that has been blessed by mantra

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,

Thank you for your letter. I am very sorry how long it took to reply.

I checked and you need to recite the Liberating from Bondage mantra every day until you get better. [Find links to the Dharani Extremely Conquering from Bondage in the FPMT Catalogue.]

You also need to recite the Mantra Promised by Tara five times.

You need a puja called Hayagriva Tsog Kong done for you at Sera Je Monastery. I went ahead and arranged the puja right away for you. If you want to contribute anything toward the cost of the puja you can do so.

I will also do chab trü puja for you.

There is another puja you need called che trül. It comes out best if Khensur Rinpoche who teaches often at Guhyasamaja Center in Virginia does this for you. You will need to ask him and make an offering.

If the extensive Hayagriva Tsog Kong puja has already been done for you, then you don’t need another, but you can still arrange for another one if you want it or feel you still need it.

Also if possible, if you can, take the Lion-face Dakini initiation from Khensur Rinpoche and then if you can, recite the mantra ten thousand times and meditate on the deity. This is important for you to do.

Also recite Vajra Claws four times.

Please try this. I have been also making prayers for you and dedicating for you. Please make your life most meaningful, with the thought of bodhicitta day and night and in every action you do.

With much love and prayers ...

My most dear, most kind, most precious wish-fulfilling one,

Thank you for your emails. I am very sorry it took so long to reply.

Regarding practice, recite the names of the Thirty-five Buddhas [Confession of a Bodhisattva's Downfalls to the Thirty-Five Buddhas]. Even if you do just a few prostrations correctly, it collects the most unbelievable merits.

If you can't do the actual prostrations—even just a few—then you can do them with your two hands in the mudra of prostration and visualize numberless bodies, as tall as mountains covering the whole ground, while doing prostrations to the Thirty-five Buddhas or to Lama Chöpa merit field, which has the Thirty-five Buddhas there. The essence is the guru, so if you have received teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, then you can think that all the buddhas are manifestations of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Recite the prayer, the names, and physically put your hands in the mudra of prostrations. If you have received a great initiation then you can visualize yourself as Thousand-arm Chenrezig, the size of a mountain, filling all the four corners [four directions], covering all the ground as you lie down and stand up. As much as you can, visualize that. Lama Tsongkhapa said in the Lamrim Chenmo that it collects the same amount of merit as if you actually had that many bodies doing prostrations.

Lama Tsongkhapa did 700,000 prostrations by reciting the names of the Thirty-five Buddha and then he received realizations so easily, like rainfall. So many of the lineage lamas of the lamrim and Lama Tsongkhapa regarded this practice as extremely special, so powerful, to recite the names of the Thirty-five Buddhas and to prostrate. So anyway at least you should be reciting the names, with your hands in the mudra of prostrations and visualizing. At least do that, and if you can do a few actual prostrations that is very good, if possible.

But you are not only reciting the Thirty-five Buddhas’ names; you can also visualize nectar coming from them, white nectar purifying yourself and all sentient beings. This is very good.

Regarding your health, I checked and there needs to be a puja done, called jung shi torma [torma of the four elements]. I will do this for you. It needs to be done at least three times, so I will do this for you.

You also need to have the whole Kangyur recited and dedicated for you. This comes out best to be done at Kopan Monastery. You could email them and get the cost, as offerings are made to all the monks who do the recitation. If you can't afford this, then it could be combined with someone else who needs the same recitation. You can email back and Holly can let you know when someone else needs this, so that you could join in with them. [Just to let you know this doesn't come out often, so it could take some time until it comes up again for someone else. – Holly] If you don’t have enough money to sponsor this by yourself, then when others need the Kangyur read, you can combine with them, so all the monks should think of your name when reading and then you can give some donation toward the recitation. [This would probably need to be discussed with the other person who is sponsoring it.]

One monk needs to read the Sutra for Entering the City of Vaishali five times for you.

This is my advice at this time. Please try it.

With much love and prayers ...

One very wrathful puja called Jang ga needs to be done. This is very rare and hard to happen. It should be done by either ___ Rinpoche or Khadro-la. This is a very big thing to request and may not be possible, but maybe you can see if it’s possible for it to happen.

The puja called Liberating from the Harm of Naga and Landlord (Lü dang sa dag gyi don drol), needs to be done by Geshe-la. It should be based on Most Secret Hayagriva.

Guhyasamaja Tantra root text: Recite this three times.

Chi lu puja, based on Cittamani Tara: I will try to do it here, and if it’s not possible, then you need to request a geshe or lama who has done Cittamani Tara, to see if they can do it for you.

Vajra Armor mantra: Seventy recitations.

If you need something to think about when reciting the mantra, then look at a picture of Padmasambhava and request the pacification of all obstacles to Dharma practice, to benefit sentient beings. Nectar beams are emitted and purify you completely, pacifying all your sickness, spirit harm, negative karma and defilements. Think the negative karma and defilements collected from beginningless rebirths are totally purified—like washing dirty clothes and black water comes out. The sickness comes out in the form of animals, snakes, scorpions, and frogs; the obscurations in the form of dirty black water come out. Think you are totally purified. Recite the mantra [with this visualization.]

My very dear one,
Thank you for your kind letter. I checked and it seems that next year there are some obstacles to your life. This year it looks OK.

• Gektor: To dispel interferences.
• Gyabshi (puja against the four maras): 400 times.
• Mamo trükang (puja dealing with spirits): To be done by the Kopan Lama Gyupas.
• Lü dang sa dag gi don drol (liberating from spirit possession, the harm of naga and landlord.)

You should recite the mantra Liberating the Body, Speech and Mind from Bondage. [Find links to the Dharani Extremely Conquering from Bondage in the FPMT Catalogue.]

Take three Ratna Samphel precious pills. Take two days’ break, then take one pill; take two days’ break, then take another pill; take two days break and then take the third pill.

I am also making prayers for you, and the Sangha in my house are reciting prayers also.

With much love and prayers ...