Paralysis and Stroke

OM SAWATI CHOM DÄN DÄ WO SER GYÄN KYI GYÄL PO DRI MÄ DA WAI DROL MA LA CHHAG TSHAL LO

OM TONBOLLI TONBOLLI PHIG TÜM MI SHIG SÖ SVAHA

OM TONBOLLI TONBOLLI SUR SUR ME ME SHIG SHIG SVAHA

If one recites these mantras 21 times daily uninterruptedly, one will not get bad omen, harms and strokes. Dromtönpa took oath for this to be true and it said by Trichen Dorje Chang of Radreng.

OM CHITTA HUM PHAT SVAHA/ OM SHRI MATI ASUR SVAHA

Recite this many times, then there is no doubt that you won’t receive harm from upper spirits. This is from the collections of Ensapa’s teachings.

Recite these Buddha names 21 times each day in order to not get paralysis and to not get harmed by upper spirits.

Other practices if you get paralysis:

1) Dorje Namjom: bless water and do chab-trü (chab is wiping and trü is washing). The meaning is purifying and washing.

2) Another method is to wear protections for paralysis.

3) Another important method to cure paralysis is migtsema mantra; to write down and eat (any of the five lines).

4) There are also many other mantras to help.

5) Also Zacho Gyalpo jenang. I received this from Dakpa Rinpoche, but I still need to do a torma offering at sunset every day for one month. I haven’t done this yet. I am waiting for the right place and time, so I can do it each day for a month.

His Holiness Zong Rinpoche gave Lama Yeshe the mantra a little different from the above. Zong Rinpoche gave: OM TUMBOLI TUMBOLI SUSU MAI MAI SHIK SHIK SOHA, seven times each day to avoid a possible second stroke. Before Lama Yeshe passed away, his paralysis went down.

Dear one,
You need to receive the purification practice chab trü eight times. Some lamas can do this practice; request Geshe-la to do it for you.

It's also good to recite the name of the Buddha Eliminating Paralysis and Lightning. If you recite the two mantras seven times a day you don't get a second or third paralysis. If a female experiences paralysis on the left side, it's easier for her to recover. It would be good to recite the practice; it will give you some idea, a basis. At least you can recite the mantras.

The Most Secret Hayagriva Mantra is also very, very good to recite. Do five malas, reciting the mantra and making requests to the deity. Hayagriva Mantra: HRIH VAJRA KHRODA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT

Try to live your life with bodhicitta, not only in meditation but in any activity. We need to free sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bring them to enlightenment. With bodhicitta, every single activity collects limitless merit and becomes the most powerful purification practice and the cause of enlightenment. It is the cause of happiness—first the happiness of future lives in a deva or human realm, but at least not being reborn in the lower realms; then the ultimate happiness of liberation from samsara. But greater than that is to achieve enlightenment, to free the numberless hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, human beings, asuras and suras from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bring them to full enlightenment. For that we need to achieve enlightenment.

If you need more explanation, discuss this with a lama or an older student who has studied very well.

With much love and prayer...

The following mantra is to pacify harm from naga possession and also to purify negative karma and sicknesses such as heart disease, leprosy, cancer and so forth. This is explained in the tantra from The Compassionate Eye Looking Buddha, Lotus Net.  This is the mantra “Exalted Chenrezig Lion's Roar,” (Skt: Arya Avalokiteshvara Simhanada): 

OM AH HRIH SIMHANADA HUM PHAT

Buddha’s name mantra:

CHOM DEN DE DE ZHIN SHEG PA DRA CHOM PA YANG DAG PAR DZOG PAI SANG GYE OZER CEA GYEN GYAL PO DRI MA ME PA DA WAI DRON MA LA CHAG TSAL LO (21x)

Buddha's name mantra also protects from paralysis and from lightning.

Other mantras:

OM TONBOLLI TONBOLLI PHIG TÜM MI SHIG SÖ SVAHA (7X)

OM TONBOLLI TONBOLLI SUR SUR ME ME SHIG SHIG SVAHA (7X)

OM SHRI MATI ASUR SVAHA (7X)

SAKATA RUDA AMAYA TETU NATAY SHANA LAYA SOHA (7X) [Note: this mantra is unchecked.]

Reciting the above mantras 21 times daily, or at least seven times daily, protects one against pollution caused by spirit possession (paralysis). This is stated by Dromtompa, who was Lama Atisha’s translator, Originator of the Victorious Ones and Embodiment of the Compassionate Buddha.

If you are already suffering from paralysis, recite these mantras seven times each day to prevent having a second or third paralysis, which makes recovery difficult. Also, if you recite these mantras many times each day, you will not receive harm from upper spirits, as is mentioned in Gyalwa Ensapa’s collection of teachings.

Note: Gyalwa Ensapa was a disciple of Lama Tsongkhapa’s and, like Milarepa, became enlightened in one brief lifetime.

The first thing for you to do is request Ven. Tsering, the monk at Rinpoche’s house, to recite the Vaishali Sutra five or six times in your presence.

The other thing is to listen to Rinpoche’s recording of the Sutra for Entering the City of Vaishali. This is available as an MP3 from FPMT on the audio file Recitations for Alleviating Pain. [To find the audio file, go to FPMT Catalogue and scroll down to "Audio Materials." To find the PDF file, go to "Sutras and Dharanis" section of the FPMT Catalogue. The sutra is also available on YouTube.]

The following pujas should be done before the operation:

1) Mamo trükang: five times. This is best done by Gyuto monks in San Jose. George would probably have to discuss the costs with Ven. Donyo. It is an extensive puja and may take all day.

2) Luzong: one time. Geshe Drakpa can do this.;

My motivation for translating this text is as follows: I must free all sentient beings from all sufferings and their causes and bring them to enlightenment: all the hell beings, pretas, animals, humans, suras, and asuras. I must free all beings from paralysis, which causes them difficulties, suffering, and obstacles to practicing Dharma.

Due to the merits of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the three times, may anyone who sees these methods, uses them, touches them, wears them, or hears about them never experience any paralysis in any lifetime, and may those who have paralysis completely recover and never experience it again.

Methods

1. My text is a hand-written scripture and is very worn, so the title is not completely clear. But I think it is from Padmasambhava, from the ear-whispered lineage.

Title: The Sung of the Profound Togetherness

I pay homage to the holy body of the wrathful guru vajra (wrathful aspect of Padmasambhava).

All of a sudden, when there are very heavy sicknesses of the Za [Day], when the situation arises and there is no time to give treatments or heal, even if it takes a little while, if one does not use this method, one will fall into a pitiful situation. Therefore, from the very beginning, when the sickness arises, use this protection.

Write down this mantra correctly, without anything extra or missing. It is best if the mantra is written in gold, there is middling benefit if it is written in silver, and the least benefit is if it is written in red ink (in my observations it came out best to write it in silver. In Tibetan, the ink is called gya tsal or you can use Chinese or Indian ink.)

Write this mantra, without dots, and concentrate, then recite the dependent arising heart mantra 100 times and make an auspicious prayer. Then roll the mantra from the end of the mantra to the beginning. Tie it with a black thread and seal it with wax. Cover the whole mantra with wax as a sealer. Then, make many eyes in the wax and always wear it at one’s neck.

The benefits of the mantra: This instruction is an all-in-one method. A person with this mantra won’t experience dangers or pitiful situations, and won’t receive harm from the Za (Tang Song Za), like being trapped inside a fort of sky iron vajras (sometimes, when lightning strikes, pieces of stone, like iron, drop from the sky. This happens many times in Tibet, in Chang, in the north. They are like stone, but drop from the sky (Nam cha / sky iron.) Anybody who keeps this practice who has paralysis or sicknesses will definitely be liberated by this method.

According to the text, in order to receive these instructions, one has to offer gold. This implies that the teaching is very precious. It says one must offer at least one gold coin (full sersang) or one cannot receive these instructions.

If you give these instructions to many people, then you will receive harm (Tibetan: kudok; this term is used in relation to protectors, when they get angry with you.)

Samaya, kuchi, datim: These are expressions to make a restriction, so that this practice does not become too widely available. If it is too widely available then there will be some disturbances.)

Because this manuscript is very worn, some of the instructions are not clear. The mantra is not included here, as it is only needed when it is requested.

2. There is a je-nang to receive of Za Chok Gyalbo Rahula called Za Nyima Dong Gang. As the commitment, you have to offer torma at sunset for 29 days. You start on the 29th day of the Tibetan month and continue offering for 29 days.

In the Most Secret Hayagriva practice there is this torma offering practice, as Za Nyima Dong Gang is part of the entourage of Most Secret Hayagriva. If you do this practice, you won’t have paralysis for 300,000 eons. Also, you can do the mantra 100 times a day. This practice was taught by Rahula himself to the great yogi Yasangwa.

3. Recite the mantra of Maha Chakra / Secret Vajrapani:

OM NILAM BARADHARA VAJRAPANI HRIDAYA MAHAKRODHA SATTVA HUM PHAT

4. If your eyes and mouth become distorted by paralysis, then drink water blessed by the mantra.

5. “The method at the window”: place three fire stones (in Tibetan: gembu—three stones, or anything that serves as a pot stand, it doesn’t have to be a triangle shape, to form a grate), then put a frying pan on the support, at a window. Put water inside the frying pan. Then reflect your face inside on the water. While looking at the reflection in the water, from the side of the face that isn’t affected, push the face back again and again. Do it slowly and gently. It you do it too strongly, then the paralysis can move to the other side of your face.

6. If due to paralysis one cannot speak (often there are three different types of paralysis, of one’s body, speech, and mind), the cause of the paralysis can be from pollution, and the cause of the pollution is one’s negative karma. The condition—the pollution—is due to having eaten some food or maybe having received food from people who have pollution or are engaged in non-virtuous actions, such as a prostitute, someone engaged in heavy negative karma, or who has broken root vows, broken samaya with the guru, is heretical to the guru, or who has given up the guru, etc. The pollution can also be from dead people or animals.

The incense puja is important to clear away pollution. There is a special incense puja from Padmasambhava to clear pollution from an individual, or one’s house, area, or country, which has pollution.

The practice is to put a container like a frying pan at a window, on three stones, to lift it up. Inside this put the head of a sheep (this could be a real sheep’s head or made of dough ), put tongs (Tibetan: gamba ) on top of the head, then, holding another tong, count the number of the age of the person, moving your hand with the tongs up and down, then put the tongs on top of the other tongs. During this time, ask the patient to recite this mantra mentally:

OM KYE TA KYE TA RAHULA SVAHA

6. If the patient has paralysis of the limbs, then with water blessed by the mantra, wash them again and again. Recite a few malas of mantras and blow on the water. After each mala generate strong faith that each drop of water has the power to heal all the sicknesses, negative karma, spirit harm, and obstacles. Wash the person with this meditation. Also, you can do massage to stretch out the person’s limbs.

7. Another method is to bring the sick person to a temple with Buddha statues that have blessings, or in front of a stupa, or to an isolated place where polluted people don’t pass through. Above the person’s head, make a canopy out of the robes (chogo) of a very pure gelong, who is living according to vows. Use a peacock feather on the head of the person, on the person’s neck put a zhi mala (it does not have to have many zhi beads) that has been blessed with the mantra. Then, give the person the obscuring wood to wear, to obscure the person from the harm of the spirit king, Gompo, and so forth.

There are different woods that give protection from the upper spirit king (Tsen), the middle and upper spirit (Rahula / Za) king and Tsen, and spirits down below (nagas) and landlords. You can wear the different wood that has mantras on it for protection. You can get the wood from Tibet and Nepal.

Many years ago I collected this wood. I wrote these mantras on it and gave it to some business people for protection. It was not easy to get this wood, because it is very hard to recognize, and also it does not grow everywhere. The method of wearing the wood is for people with no realizations and who must rely on external methods and external protections.

8. Do wrathful pujas against different types of beings. However, if the person has no realizations, then other beings can harm them during a wrathful puja.

9. Move one’s bed to another location to sleep.

10. General instructions

Conduct regarding food: For elders one needs more heat, for the middle-aged one needs more coolness, for children one needs an equal balance between hot and cold. Abandon eating red meat and warm curd, and abandon water from the herma.¹ 

Don’t listen to sounds of drums or blowing conch shells because they are too loud. Don’t engage in fighting, speaking loudly, shouting, running, or any violent actions. Don’t ride on horses or donkeys. You should not look at a bright red color. Don’t have a bowl with sparkling water in it or anything sparkling, like a mirror.

According to my experience, you may feel bright lights shining strongly are very bad for your eyes and you can lose the power of sight. You may not feel comfortable watching TV. Any bright light can be a problem. Don’t look directly at the sun, also when the sun hits the ocean, there may be too much light.

In general, these are the main practices to do for paralysis:

1) Mantras for paralysis

2) Washing purification with Dorje Namjom. This is a very common method that helps one to be healed. You must do it many times. You do it with a lama, collect water that the lama used, and then use that yourself when you wash and do the meditation of receiving blessings from Dorje Namjom and Tromo Metsek.

NoteS

¹ Meaning of herma not known to LYWA.  [Return to text]

The following are the Buddha’s name and mantra to be recited by people who have suffered a stroke or paralysis.

  1. Buddha’s name:

CHOM DÄN DÄ DE ZHIN SHEG PA DRA CHOM PA YANG DAG PAR DZOG PÄI SAN GYÄ RINCHHEN TSUG TOR CHEN LA CHHAG TSHÄL LO
(Recite 21 times)  

  2. Mantra:

OM TONBOLLI TONBOLLI SUR SUR ME ME SHIG SHIG SVAHA
(Recite seven times)