Metastatic Cancer
A student wrote that their mother had been diagnosed with metastatic cancer in the lungs, liver and bones. She was in palliative care and was close to passing away.
Rinpoche asked us to liberate one thousand animals dedicated to your mother, so I have arranged this.
Rinpoche said if you also want to do animal liberations for your mother, you can follow his book, Liberating Animals, which explains how to do this. That would also be very good.
Your mother should take the precious pill Ratna Samphel. She needs to take five pills. Rinpoche has some blessed pills at Kopan that he also wants to send to her.
You can recite Chanting the Names of Manjushri (Jamphel Tsenjö). Read this text three times.
The extensive Cittamani Tara puja should be done five times at Nalanda Monastery. You can request them to do this, explaining your mother’s condition and situation, etc., and that Rinpoche is advising this.
Nalanda can add this dedication: “May ___ (add her name) never be born in the lower realms, may she immediately recover from disease, have health and a most beneficial life for sentient beings and may she generate bodhicitta in order to achieve full enlightenment.”
You should recite The Array of Sukhavati Pure Land: A Concise Mahayana Sutra three times, ensuring that your mother can hear the recitation. Place the text on her head at the end of life (the time of passing) and now, as death can come at any time. [Find links to these practices in the FPMT Catalogue.]