Melanoma
A center director’s 19-year-old daughter had melanoma. It was removed, but there was still a 30 per cent chance of it returning. Her mother asked Rinpoche what practices she could do.
My very dear Barbara,
Sorry for the long delay in replying to your letter. My suggestion for your daughter is, if she can, to do some purification practice. What comes out very good is if she can chant the Thirty-five Buddhas’ names, with prostrations, as much as she can. If she doesn’t want to prostrate, then she can sit with her hands in the mudra of prostration and chant the names of the Thirty-five Buddhas, then visualize beams of nectar emitting and entering her body and mind. She should think that the beams purify all her sickness, spirit harm, negative karma, and defilements. Also, they purify all the causes, so this means the negative karma, delusions, and defilements are purified. When these are purified then it is impossible to have sickness, death, old age, or suffering ever again.
At the end, she should think that she receives all the blessings and realizations, everything is completely purified, and then that she receives all realizations.
The other thing that came out very good for her to do is to recite the Diamond Cutter Sutra. This is a very powerful practice to collect extensive merits. Also, it helps to quickly realize emptiness, and directly cuts the root of all suffering in samsara, by eliminating the cause—ignorance. Also, it eliminates even the imprint of ignorance, so that one can achieve liberation by ceasing even the subtle imprints.
By ceasing all the gross defilements and even the subtle defilements, then one can achieve full enlightenment, and one is able to liberate numberless sentient beings from the oceans of suffering, so that means numberless hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, humans, suras, asuras, and intermediate state beings, and one is able to bring them to full enlightenment.
Then, it is also very good if she can read even just a few lines a day of the Sutra of Golden Light. This would be so good and would direct her life towards enlightenment. This sutra also fulfills one’s wishes for all sentient beings, and brings so much peace to one’s house, town, country, and the whole world.
Attached are the benefits of these two sutras for her, and I have a photo of the 35 Buddhas that I would like to send to her. Please email me an address to send it to.
Also, if you don’t have the sutras I can send them for her.
With much love and prayers...