Healing from Afar

My very dear Elaine,
Thank you very much for your kind email. Regarding your question about doing prayers from afar, that is completely ok. Overall the best practice ALWAYS is to do Medicine Buddha practice.

Regarding your question about spirit harm and sickness, I can’t say, but with most sicknesses there is some spirit harm. There are different types of spirits and that is why there are different pujas to do, according to the different spirits.

Cancers in the West are not easy to treat. Often the patients are given chemotherapy, which can be worse than the sickness.

Generally, it is difficult to help, because not everybody is interested in Buddhism or they do not want to accept Tibetan medicine and pujas, so there are all these difficulties; then also many people do not want to recite mantras, so they find this difficult to accept. How you can help is by doing the Medicine Buddha puja—that is the first thing and the best thing.

If there is someone who can accept doing pujas or practices themselves, and who is willing to recite mantras or take other medicines, blessed pills etc, then I can check. If you send me the person’s name, I can check what is best for them when I have time.

But generally, if you want to help, then best to do the Medicine Buddha puja and strong prayer to the Medicine Buddha. From the Medicine Buddha’s heart, send light that enters the body and mind of the sick person and totally illuminates their body, which is in the nature of light. Think that all sickness, spirit harm, negative karma and defilements are gone. So, do very strong concentration like this, then chant the mantra.

This can really help, but of course it also depends on the other person’s negative karma, whether it is heavy or light.

Thank you very much for your good heart, wanting to help them.

With much love and prayers...