Eliminating Life Obstacles
Pujas and Long Life Sutra for Life Obstacles
Rinpoche checked and advised these practices for a student with life obstacles.
- Amitayus Long Life Sutra (Tse dö): Print the sutra one hundred times.
- Mamo trü kang: To be done by Lama Gyupas at Kopan Monastery.
- Lu zong puja.
[You can find links to Amitayus Long Life Sutra in the "Sutras and Dharani" section of the FPMT Catalogue.]
Severe Pain in Body and Life Obstacles
A student wrote that for the past two months they'd had a lot of pain in the body and felt weak and lethargic, with severe back pain, fever and chills. Rinpoche advised these practices.
My most dear one,
We have similar pain, but I think yours is much heavier. I’m sorry about that. Maybe I should take all your pain and make you levitate on dharmakaya. What about that?
I checked and yes, you have life obstacles. You need to take the long-life initiation quickly.
- The Mantra Promised by Tara: I will recite this five times for you.
- Amitayus Long Life Sutra: To be read two thousand times by Kopan Monastery.
- Sung Chen (great mantra): I need to read this for you five times. So, I will do this now.
- Vajra Cutter Sutra: The Sangha in Aptos are reciting this once for you.
- You need to take a total of three ratna samphel precious pills. Take one early tomorrow morning with warm water. Do not expose it to the light; that’s why it is wrapped. Bite into it and crush in your mouth and drink it with warm water. You need to take this pill three times, so after three days take another one, and then again after three more days take one more. Take three pills in total.
- Take one gurchung precious pill each day for five days, so five pills in total.
With much love and prayers ...
Amitayus Long Life Practices for Elderly Mother
A student’s elderly mother had been unwell for three months. She had lost a lot of weight but refused to go to hospital for examination.
Rinpoche checked and advised the following:
- She should take dorje chu min (from His Holiness the Dalai Lama) each day.
- One long-life pill: we will send this.
- Recitation of the Prajnaparamita.
- Print the Amitayus Long Life Sutra 300 times.
- She needs to take long-life initiation.
- Amitayus long-life meditation should be done for her. Recite the mantra 300,000 times; it can be a little each day. Tse drup is the Tibetan for the meditation. Also dedicate for the gurus, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, all the Sangha and all those who are keeping good morality and doing good for others.
- If the mother can, she should recite the long-life mantra of Amitayus and the names of Manjushri.
Rinpoche said this looks like a very difficult year for her.
Health and Life Obstacles
A student wrote to ask Rinpoche about life obstacles. Rinpoche checked and advised these practices.
- Liberate 180 animals
- Gya tong ba [8,000 verse Prajnaparamita]: to be recited at Samten Ling Monastery
- Mamo trü kang: to be recited by the Lama Gyupas at Kopan Monastery
- Most Secret Hayagriva Tsog Kong puja
- Togyal of ten wrathful deities
Golden Light Sutra and Tara Pujas
A student wrote to Rinpoche about her health. She was sixty years old and according to Chinese astrology it was an obstacle year.
My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
I checked and there is no danger to your life this year.
You should read the Golden Light Sutra four times.
The Four Mandala Offerings to Chittamani Tara puja needs to be done twice, for your health and for your Dharma practice, to be free from samsara and to achieve enlightenment.
With much love and prayers ...
Prajnaparamita for Health and Life Obstacles
Rinpoche gave this advice to a student who wrote to ask about life obstacles.
The Prajnaparamita needs to be recited five times for you. This comes out as very, very beneficial for you; for your health and your life this comes out best.
This should be done by the Kopan nuns. Explain the dedication, for your long life and for the removal of health obstacles. You can discuss with them the offerings and so forth.