Various Cancers

Dear Michael,
You need to have done the following pujas done:

• Chag-sum
• She-nyin dü-dog

Also, it is very important, if you can, to recite at least five malas of Vajra Armor mantra a day. If you can do tonglen, that would also be very good.

Dear one,
I advise you to do these things, then in a few months retake the test.

• She nyin dü dog puja: four times
• Take the precious pill rinchen rilnag or rinchen dranjor chenmo: one each week for four weeks
• White Heruka or Amitayus long-life practice

Regarding your cancer, this is what came out very beneficial for you to do:

1) Recite five malas of Black Manjushri mantra.

2) Liberate 2,000 animals. The way to do this is to buy animals or insects from a place where the animals are going to be killed (often people buy worms that are used as fishing bait). It can be worms that are used for fishing, or crickets that are fed as food to other animals.

You can also ask the center director to help. Maybe the director would be happy to organize an animal liberation day, where other people can join in; it could be an activity at the center or even at the beach. Have a table and make it like an altar, piled high with many texts, statues, and stupas, photos of Buddha, texts such as the Golden Light Sutra, the Vajra Cutter Sutra, the Sanghata Sutra, lamrim texts, and many tsa-tsas. Then, take the animals around the table many times, circumambulating with them. Hold the animals at the same level as the holy objects (this means you hold them high up, not below the holy objects). Take them around as many times as possible. Each time you take them around it brings them happiness in future lives, liberation, and enlightenment. Each circumambulation gives them all the realizations and cessation of all the sufferings. This is the most amazing gift, the best way to help these animals, by taking them around the holy objects.

Because you are going around the holy objects, it means that these animals are helping you to purify and collect merit, so now you understand their kindness. All the people doing the animal liberation actually receive happiness from these animals, because happiness comes from creating merit and purifying, which is what you are doing by circumambulating. Now you see these animals are the most kind ones. It is good to feel this as you take them around.

Then chant the mantras. There is a booklet that explains how to do animal liberations, so please read it and follow that. The director will know how to do it. After chanting the mantras, blow over a container with water in. Chant mantras such as Chenrezig mantra, Medicine Buddha mantra, Namgyalma mantra, Maitreya mantra, Lotus Pinnacle mantra, etc, and in this way you bless the water. After each mala of mantras that you chant you blow on the water. Then sprinkle the blessed water on the animals. If you have liberated fish, then you can pour the water into the ocean. If it is worms, you can sprinkle it on them.

This practice is unbelievably beneficial. It brings you and the animals to enlightenment by circumambulating and chanting the mantras so the animals can hear. Also, by blowing mantras on the animals it purifies them and brings them to enlightenment.

3) The other practice which is extremely beneficial for you to do is Medicine Buddha puja. If you can, do it every day, at least chant the mantra, but it is best to do the whole practice.

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

With much love and prayers...

My very dear Barbara,
Sorry for the long delay in replying to your letter. My suggestion for your daughter is, if she can, to do some purification practice. What comes out very good is if she can chant the Thirty-five Buddhas’ names, with prostrations, as much as she can. If she doesn’t want to prostrate, then she can sit with her hands in the mudra of prostration and chant the names of the Thirty-five Buddhas, then visualize beams of nectar emitting and entering her body and mind. She should think that the beams purify all her sickness, spirit harm, negative karma, and defilements. Also, they purify all the causes, so this means the negative karma, delusions, and defilements are purified. When these are purified then it is impossible to have sickness, death, old age, or suffering ever again.

At the end, she should think that she receives all the blessings and realizations, everything is completely purified, and then that she receives all realizations.

The other thing that came out very good for her to do is to recite the Diamond Cutter Sutra. This is a very powerful practice to collect extensive merits. Also, it helps to quickly realize emptiness, and directly cuts the root of all suffering in samsara, by eliminating the cause—ignorance. Also, it eliminates even the imprint of ignorance, so that one can achieve liberation by ceasing even the subtle imprints.

By ceasing all the gross defilements and even the subtle defilements, then one can achieve full enlightenment, and one is able to liberate numberless sentient beings from the oceans of suffering, so that means numberless hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, humans, suras, asuras, and intermediate state beings, and one is able to bring them to full enlightenment.

Then, it is also very good if she can read even just a few lines a day of the Sutra of Golden Light. This would be so good and would direct her life towards enlightenment. This sutra also fulfills one’s wishes for all sentient beings, and brings so much peace to one’s house, town, country, and the whole world.

Attached are the benefits of these two sutras for her, and I have a photo of the 35 Buddhas that I would like to send to her. Please email me an address to send it to.

Also, if you don’t have the sutras I can send them for her.

With much love and prayers...

My very dear one,
I checked regarding this person and below is what came out best:

1. She should take one rinchen mangjor precious pill once a week for five weeks.
2. She should take one khyung nga pill a day for five weeks.
3. Take two very special 1,000 relic pills.
4. Take a few drops of very blessed water each day.

My assistant can send you the above medicines and blessed water, if you email her your address.

There is a text that a geshe needs to recite for her. I will send this in the next two emails as it is large.

I am making prayers for her mother and I have asked the Sangha at my house to dedicate many animal liberations for her (they do three a month), as well as to dedicate long life tsa tsas for her.

With much love and prayers ...