Angina and Health Issues
A student wrote that her mother had angina attacks and many health issues recently. An ambulance was called after she had a nasty turn and a fall, ripping open her arm.
My most dear most precious, kindest, wish-fulfilling one Anita,
How are you ? I am sorry about your mother, so I want to say you can pray for her while you are eating and while you are in the toilet. Of course I am joking, but you can pray for her any time, no problem.
I checked and these two pujas should be done for your mum:
- she-nyin dü-dog, by Dagri Rinpoche
- mamo-trü-kang, by Kopan elder monks
I will also make prayers for her.
Please tell your mother to read more Dharma books. She can read books by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Yeshe and also my books. This is the most important help, not only for this life, but it will bring more peace, happiness and satisfaction in this life, so even this life will become more happy.
Soon we will experience the nature of life—as you know after birth there is death, so even though the body disintegrates, the consciousness continues to the next life, which is not one but numberless. This continues until we are able to actualize the true path, direct perception of emptiness, then we achieve the true cessation of suffering, the blissful state of peace for oneself. Not only that, then there is ultimate happiness, full enlightenment, the peerless happiness, the state of omniscient mind, so that we can do perfect works for sentient beings and we can liberate numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bring them to full enlightenment.
So we should practice Dharma, doing meditation, to achieve this goal. This is the biggest goal, the most happy thing to do in the life. This is the most beneficial thing to do for others, for numberless sentient beings.
When your mother experienced this problem of the arm injury and so on, this is telling us to think of the reality of life, to make the life most beneficial for sentient beings and for ourselves. So it means to pay attention to this, to think deeply about life.
When are you going to translate or give teachings? I thought maybe to do a big celebration on the day when you start to translate or give teachings. Maybe I should inaugurate you by putting you on a throne.
With much love and prayers. I hope to see you soon...