Various Cancers

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
This advice is to help with your cancer and with the problems caused by the person who is attacking you.

Read the Vajra Cutter Sutra at least twice, though reading it more is better. This is to help with the situation where the other person is threatening you. This means you should generate strong bodhicitta before reading it and dedicate it for the other person.

Regarding the cancer, recite seven malas of the Vajra Armor mantra each day and make strong prayers to Padmasambhava.

Pray to Medicine Buddha as much as you can, but most important is the Vajra Armor mantra. There are two different Medicine Buddha practices you can also do if you want to, when you pray to Medicine Buddha.

Recite The Prayer to Guru Rinpoche that Swiftly Fulfills All Wishes (Sampa Nyurdrupma) at least twice a day, with strong reliance on Padmasambhava.

This is Rinpoche’s advice.

• For retreat, do tonglen practice related to the cancer you have.
• Take jüng nga (Tibetan medicine), one pill each day for four days.

Rinpoche checked and said that others could participate in these practices with her, for example, the resident teacher at the center. She could also do the practices with a small group of two or three others.

• Geshe-la can go to see her from time to time and recite the Amitabha pure land prayer (The Array of Sukhavati Pure Land: A Concise Mahayana Sutra.)
• Vajrasattva practice: A small group can do this with her.
• Sangye Tse Bum: To be recited by Geshe-la. He can read some pages each time—whatever he has time for—and she must be aware and listening. She can visualize that the Buddha is sending her beams of light and absorbing into her; on the beams [are] Buddha. She can also send [beams of light] to all sentient beings and at the end, do the dedication. This comes out very good for her. The main thing, as Geshe-la reads, is that she relies totally from her heart on the Buddha.

Rinpoche read your email today and checked extensively about your health. This is Rinpoche’s advice:

Hayagriva che trul puja: to be done by Geshe-la.

You should recite thirty Black Manjushri mantras and then blow over a big jar of water. Drink the water five times each day, but before drinking it, recite the mantra thirty times and blow on the water. This means you do thirty recitations, five times each day [i.e., recite the mantra thirty times, blow on the water and then drink it]. Continue like that. Before the water is finished, add more and do the recitations again.

It seems what might have the most benefit for you is this Black Manjushri mantra. Many years ago, the wife of a center director recited Namgyalma mantra for a long time and got better. This is just to let you know. I checked and Namgyalma mantra didn’t come out for you, but Black Manjushri did.

If possible, also liberate 100,000 animals. That can be done at ABC, the center in Singapore. Also some could be done at the three centers in Malaysia, some amount. Especially buy live crickets or insects that would otherwise be fed to other animals. You can buy many insects very cheaply. Big animals like goats and so forth are difficult to keep, but frogs, fish and small insects are easier and cheaper, and you can get so many.

Follow my book, Liberating Animals, which explains how to do it properly, the mantras to recite and how to take them around holy objects, taking as many as possible around. It’s not only about causing long life for the animals, it also causes long life for the sick person and it creates the cause for enlightenment for the animals each time they go around. If there are one hundred statues, stupas and scriptures, and if there are one thousand crickets in a plastic bag, for example, by going around one time, they create one hundred causes of enlightenment if there are one hundred pictures, tsa tsas, etc. It’s so good going around the holy objects; it’s great purification.

If there is a stupa or statue that has the four dharmakaya relic mantras inside, then by going around one time it totally purifies the karma to be reborn in the eight hot hell realms. That is totally purified and it becomes easy to be reborn in the pure land of a buddha. There’s so much benefit. Even taking them around one time [is beneficial], so no question if you can go around more. There are three other mantras (of the four dharmakaya relic mantras), so follow these in my book. This is incredibly beneficial for the animals to not be reborn in the lower realms and to achieve enlightenment quicker.

Geshe-la can read Vajra Claws for you, three hundred times in total. If there are other monks who can read it, they can do together. They should read it in Tibetan.

Wear White Umbrella, Hayagriva and Namgyalma protection. We can send this to you.

[Update 2019: The student was completely healed and no longer had leukemia. As well as doing the practices, they also had chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.]

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
According to my observation you should take the moon crystal precious pill, Rinchen Tsotru Dhashel. Take it five times, with five days’ break between each pill. So take one, then nothing for five days, then take the next one. Because it’s wrapped you need to break it, then drink with hot water. Do this without the light, and it’s best to do it in the early morning.

You should recite Guru Shakyamuni Buddha’s name and mantra, La ma tön pa chom dän de…. This purifies 80,000 billion eons each time we recite it. By reciting this mantra, we go only toward enlightenment, we become beneficial like Guru Shakyamuni Buddha himself, like Chenrezig, and it becomes easy to practice and realize tantra.

You should do one mala per day, and while reciting, look with your eyes open at a very nice picture, thangka or statue of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha. I am attaching a picture, so if you don’t have one you can print this out and look at it.

You should also practice Medicine Buddha, seeing [Medicine Buddha] as inseparable from the guru. If you have received initiation from His Holiness, practice seeing oneness [of guru and buddha], make strong requests and then purify. Nectar beams are sent to you with much love and compassion, loving kindness and compassion, like filling the whole sky. The nectar beams totally purify disease, spirit harm, negative karma and defilements. Those negative karmas and defilements collected from beginningless rebirths are totally purified, and especially all the disease, the prostate cancer, is totally purified. So do that strongly, with three malas of Medicine Buddha mantra per day.

If you can also do tonglen, that’s unbelievable. Do it sincerely from the heart—from the heart or from the feet.

With much love and prayers...

Rinpoche checked and said you need the following:

• Tse wer nadar puja: To be done for you seventeen times.
• Mani pills: Take five pills every day for two months.