Health and Parents

1. Regarding getting a doctor to treat you, chant the following mantras:

• Five malas of Hayagriva mantra
• Six malas of Kurukulla mantra
• Padmasambhava’s prayer “Fulfilling Wishes”

The Hayagriva mantra is:

HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT

The Kurukulla mantra is:

OM KURUKULLE HRI SVAHA

As you recite the mantras, visualize that your whole body is filled with all of the qualities and perfect power, so that the doctor changes her mind and is extremely happy to help you.

At the conclusion of these mantras and the prayer, recite the dedication prayers found in the FPMT prayer book, in particular, “Jang chub sem chog Rinpoche…,” “Gewa deyi nyur du dag…,” and some of the other standard dedication prayers, such as “The ‘I’ that is empty…” As you dedicate, think that all sentient beings in this world generate bodhicitta and will cause no harm, but only become a cause of enlightenment. Dedicate it to becoming inseparable with Guru Heruka and to leading all sentient beings to enlightenment. Dedicate it to having all the collections of goodness, so that you are able to offer extensive benefits to all sentient beings.

2. Regarding your stomach disorder, turn the thinking around about your anxiety over the advocates and accountants taking your money. You can rejoice for them if they get the money, then there is benefit. Also, you can think that the stomach disorder is a sign of purification, so you can rejoice at that.

Also, recite the long Medicine Buddha mantra for three days soon, like in a retreat. Do sessions of the Menla Chödema (Medicine Buddha puja) and, at the mantra recitation part, recite the long mantra 500 times over the course of the sessions over 3 days.

3. Refuge and lay precepts will be given at the center near you soon, so you can take them. Please read the section on karma in Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand, particularly focusing on the results of the ten non-virtues, etc.

4. You can recite my name mantra:

OM AH GURU VAJRADHARA MUNI SHASANA KSHANTI SARVA SIDDHI HUM HUM

5. Regarding prayers and pujas for your parents, chant Chenrezig mantra: OM MANI PADME HUM, and think that it is purifying them and all sentient beings completely. You can do this using a photo of them, or if you don’t have one, that is OK, too. Just visualize that your body, your parents, and all sentient beings are in the nature of white light, then Chenrezig melts into light and absorbs into your forehead, throat and heart, completely purifying all disease, hindrances, etc. You visualize the same thing with your parents and all sentient beings. You can also pray as you have been doing for them and dedicate as you have been doing for them.