Acute Leukemia

Dear Jason,
Rinpoche has been checking regarding your brother. What comes out best is for your brother to take some blessed powder (blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s retreat). Rinpoche refers to this as phurba powder. We have a few packets that I can send to your brother, or I can send them to you to send to him.

1) Rinpoche said he needs to take some phurba powder four times a day, every day—before breakfast, before lunch, afternoon and before dinner.

Rinpoche is going to try and contact Tashi, His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s ritual attendant, to try to get more packets of this phurba powder. I am sending you a picture of the packet in case you also have a way to get it.

2) If your brother can, he should recite the long Namgyalma mantra in Tibetan and do the practice every day.

3) The best practice for your brother to do is tong-len, if he can. Rinpoche said he should take on all the sufferings of all sentient beings, as well as the causes of suffering. He should take it all on himself and think it destroys the self-cherishing mind, the ignorance. Then he should offer himself to all sentient beings—giving them all his merits and the results up to happiness, up to enlightenment . He should think that he becomes a wish-fulfilling jewel for all sentient beings. Rinpoche said this is the BEST practice he can do.

4) Rinpoche is doing chag-sum puja for him. This is being done in India now.

Rinpoche said he is also doing prayers. Rinpoche will check if there are any more pujas that can be done and if so, he said he will arrange them.