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• Motivate very well, then have five extensive Medicine Buddha pujas done at Nalanda Monastery.
• Take the mantra blessed water from Rinpoche.
• Take Black Garuda initiation.
• Do Black Garuda mantras every day.
• lü dang sadag gi don drol [Liberating from the harm of the naga and landlord]. It’s very important for this puja to be done.

My very dear one,
Mantra water to drink came out best for you. I will send it to you. You also need to do the following:

• Liberate seven animals. If you have money, you can liberate goats in Nepal (i.e. bigger animals). If you don't have money then you can liberate insects and you can do many more than seven, or you can do fishing bait and go around holy objects before you liberate them. If you will do this, then please do it according to my book, Liberating Animals. Or I can ask the Sangha at my house to do the animal liberations for you, as they do animal liberation every week. If you would like the Sangha to do it in Aptos then karmically it is good to make a small offering towards the cost of the animals. [See Animal Liberation Fund.]

• Have four namgyal tse chog pujas done by Osel Labrang [monastic house at Sera Je Monastery, India.]

• Take five pills from Maratika.

• Recite the mantra Liberating Body, Speech and Mind from Bondage a few times each day. Recite this with bodhicitta. [Find links to the Dharani Extremely Conquering from Bondage in the FPMT Catalogue.]

I am also making prayers for you.

With much love and prayers ...

Your wife should bless a container of water with the recitation of manis [OM MANI PADME HUM mantras], visualizing Thousand-arm Chenrezig above the container. Nectar flows from the heart of Chenrezig into the container of water, thus blessing the water very powerfully. Visualize that the water becomes completely blessed by Chenrezig.

Visualize this after every mala of mani recitations and do at least three malas blessing the water each day—not less, more is better. With the visualization, she must strongly believe that Chenrezig is blessing the water with nectar that purifies the four things, negative karma, spirit harms, obstacles and disease (the tumor).

When the visualization is finished, concentrate for a while on the water , thinking, “Now it is nectar.” She should sip the water several times during the day, taking several sips each time.

Keep doing this every day. When the water is finished, refill the container with water and keep blessing it.

With much love and prayers ...

My very dear one,
Thank you very much for your kind letter, and sorry for the long delay in replying.

According to my observations you should:

• Do Black Manjrushri practice. Chant one mala every day.
• Recite the Om Padmo mantra. Recite six malas a day.
• Read the Long Life Sutra eleven times. Print it out a few times or photocopy it on very nice paper.
• It is very good if you can offer naga torma and do the naga incense puja. You can get this practice from the FPMT Education Office. However, it is very important to do this only on the special naga days. It cannot be done on any day, so you need to check a Tibetan calendar before to make sure it is a good day. It would be very good if you could do the naga practice at a beach or near a spring. At Chenrezig Institute, a little bit up from Geshe-la’s house, on the right side, there is a place where water comes out of the ground. You can do it there and at other places at Chenrezig.
• It is very good if you can take the eight Mahayana precepts more frequently. Taking them collects extensive merit and purifies negative karma, It would be very good if you can take them as much as you can.
• It is important that you start doing Samayavajra practice.
• Also, do one longlife practice every day. You can choose—it could be White Tara, Amitayus, etc.

Try to live your life as much as possible with a bodhicitta motivation and do lamrim meditation. If you can, try to spend one month mainly focusing on guru devotion. Follow the outline according to the lamrim texts and try to meditate until you achieve stable realizations.

After one month, continue circling through the lamrim outlines—renouncing this life and future lives, realizing bodhicitta and emptiness—until you attain stable realizations. In this way, continue through the lamrim every day. Your main practice is the lamrim for now and later tantra.

With much love and prayers...

I checked for some time about your situation, and what has to be done urgently is:

• Extensive Medicine Buddha puja. This can be done with students at the center.
• Offer paint to the Boudha stupa. You can ask Kopan Monastery to organize that.

I am making prayers. 

Dear Nina,
It comes out very good for you to do seven nyung näs.

You should also write the Arya Sanghata Sutra three times. This is to collect extensive merits and purification to reach enlightenment quickly. The aim is to liberate sentient beings as quickly as possible from suffering and enlighten them.

If you can, request the Gyuto monks in Dharamsala to read the whole Kangyur for you.

Both recitation of the Kangyur and writing the Sanghata Sutra can also be dedicated to the long life and success of all the holy wishes of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and for the quick success of all the other projects, like building holy objects, especially to be able to build the Maitreya statue. It can also be dedicated to being able to serve all the monasteries, big or small, and all the Sangha, so they can spread Dharma in the world.

Whatever puja you do, first, of course, you dedicate it to yourself, but secondly it can be dedicated to all these things.

With regards to having the entire Kangyur read, first check the costs and see whether you can manage it. Otherwise, you may need to rob a bank in Europe, which might be difficult, because there are always too many people around. Or your long shamtab might get caught, or even your Chogu (in case you want to rob the bank dressed up in your robes and Chogu).

Also, it is very good if you can make 35 long-life tsa-tsas (three long-life deities in one mold).

If you can, recite Most Secret Hayagriva mantra, and after each mala, blow on a container of water—blow on the water, not the container, unless you can do magic and make the container itself turn into water (like the nun from Dharamsala). Then, drink the water five times a day. This can also be to quench your thirst. Take a good mouthful of the blessed water, not just tiny sips like a mosquito! Do that for a few months.

Also, take one small teaspoon of Dorja Phurba powder twice a day, for two weeks. You can get this from His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s private office, they often give it out (like mani pills), so you can ask someone in Dharamsala to get it for you.

My dear Nina, please do not have the operation now, do this first, and then we can check again.

With much love and prayers...