Eliminating Life Obstacles
Obstacle to Life
A student with obstacles to his life wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice. The student’s son needed to have an operation, so he also asked for advice regarding this situation.
Regarding your situation, it looks like about six months from now there will be some obstacles, but they appear lighter than before. What needs to be done is:
1) White Umbrella deity torma called Torkya—a very large torma is made, there is a puja, and it is thrown into the fire. This could be done at Kopan.
When this is done, it can be dedicated to your situation, as well as also to the organization (Maitreya Project and FPMT), so it makes it more beneficial. The main thing is that it’s for you personally.
2) As well as this, it is important for you to recite Black Manjrushri mantra.
3) Do the short practice of Amitayus. The main thing is to recite the long mantra, whatever you can manage, each day.
Regarding the operation for your son, it looks bad to do the operation, but it also looks bad not to do it, which means there is an obstacle. Something has to be done first.
One thing that should be done straight away is the liberation of 20,000 animals.
Generally, for some reason, his situation looks difficult. Of course, you want to help him as much as possible, so I think the best thing is to leave good imprints on his mind as much as you can. If he can recite mantras or hear mantras or sutras, awhatever you can manage, that leaves good imprints, and this is very important for him for the future. Also, if he can read the Heart Sutra and listen to it, and also read or hear short lamrim prayers, or you could read them with him each day, this would be excellent.
Another thing that will really help is special blessed water from places like Maratika or Mount Kailash. If he can sip a little bit of this blessed water, it will help.
Life Obstacles in Near Future
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student who had obstacles to her life.
I received the letter from your students, asking for you to stay in the area. I read it all. Then I checked for quite a long time. It seems that you may have some life obstacles in the near future, so I checked what was best for you to do to overcome these:
- Take a long-life initiation.
- Liberate 500 animals – according to my method (taking them around holy objects). This is something your students could do with you.
- Do Tendrel Chi-lu 500 times. This is the practice of betraying death by reciting the King of Prayers.
- Practice White Heruka each day.
- Recite the Sanghata Sutra 60 times.
- Recite the Diamond Cutter Sutra five times.
- Print 80 long-life sutras (I can send it to you if you don’t have it.)
- You need to have the Gyanag Kok tok recited 400 times. This is a text to recite when it is your obstacle year.
Regarding teaching at the center and around the town, this came out as very good.
Prolonging Life
A student had some health problems and had been told that someone had cast black magic on her. She also described feeling very lonely, and thought she might have received some signs of pending death. The woman said she needed to live another year, so her niece could finish university, her daughter could get married, and so she could look after her mother.
According to my Mickey Mouse divination, it comes out that you will stay alive for 10 years, but not more than 10 years.
To try and prolong your life, you need to liberate 500 or more animals every month. [See the Advice Book section on Benefiting Animals.] You can do that with the students at your local Dharma center, or you can organize to do it with your friends. Causing animals to have long lives is one method to create the cause for your own long-life, so this practice is very good for someone who has life obstacles, or a possible untimely death.