Long-life Practices for Life Obstacles
Date of Advice:
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Advice given to a student who had life obstacles in that year.
- You need to do long-life meditation on White Heruka. If you don’t have the initiation then you can do White Tara sadhana.
- Print the Amitayus Long Life Sutra 500 times.
- Liberate 12,000 animals. Do it the FPMT way, as they do in Singapore, by circumambulating stupas and holy objects, putting blessed water on the animals and reciting mantras. It’s probably easier to do this in Singapore or you can do some in Bali.
- Have a long-life deity thangka painted on the Tibetan eighth. This means the thangka is drawn and completed, and also blessed or consecrated on the same day. All three need to be done on the same day, the Tibetan eighth. Even if all the details are not finished, the general picture must be completed.