Urogenital and Menstrual Conditions
Vasectomy and Tantric Practice
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking if a vasectomy has a negative influence on male Dharma practitioners, especially when doing tantric practices. Rinpoche advised the following:
Dear Jorgen,
If semen still comes through and if you experience sexual pleasure the same as before, then it is OK.
The main thing in Highest Yoga Tantra is that semen flows and one experiences pleasure. Those are the conditions: semen flowing upward and the pleasure that one uses to meditate on emptiness for the path to enlightenment.
Otherwise, it is OK if certain cells that produce babies are stopped. If semen is flowing and you have sexual pleasure, then when you reach that level you can use that.
With much love and prayers...
Menstrual Problems
A student wrote to Rinpoche regarding heavy bleeding during her periods and asked for advice.
Dear Rachel,
Two other students overcame this problem, one by doing White Tara meditation, one by making prostrations to the Thirty-five Buddhas and taking mani pills.
I advise you to do White Tara meditation. Also, please chew three inner offering pills a day for three weeks.
I suggest you do not use the medical application as suggested by the doctors—it may cause infection.
Advice for Kidney Stones
Rinpoche gave the following instructions to a student suffering with kidney stones and was informed that it worked within two days.
Dear Angela,
Mix water and butter and add an Inner Offering pill. Recite many OM MANI PADME HUM mantras (at least 4,000) over it, blowing on the mixture after each mala, then drink the mixture for three days.
Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding
A nun had problems with excessive uterine bleeding and wrote to Rinpoche for advice. The bleeding stopped after she took the pill that Rinpoche sent her and did the meditation he recommended.
Please take this inner offering pill for the bleeding. Please also do White Tara meditation.
A student in New Zealand was bleeding every day. When she did prostrations to the Thirty-five Buddhas, the bleeding stopped after two days. Her mind, which had been unhappy, also became happy.