Practices to Pacify Earthquakes
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Rinpoche gave this advice to help pacify earthquakes in California, Nepal and worldwide.
Ven Roger writes: Rinpoche has been bringing it up many, many times and feels that this is extremely important, as it is inevitable an earthquake will happen in California. Rinpoche has checked and below are some things that need to happen as soon as possible:
- Read the Tengyur four times: to be done at Sera Je Monastery.
- Ksitigarbha retreat, with 1,800,000 recitations of the long Ksitigarbha mantra. If the Tengyur is recited four times, then it can be one million mantras only.
- Take the eight Mahayana precepts: 300 times.
- Perform the extensive Medicine Buddha puja: ongoing.
Rinpoche said that the dedication for these practices should be to pacify all earthquakes in California, Nepal and worldwide, as well as the normal FPMT dedications. Students should continue the earthquake prayers they are already doing as well, so this doesn’t change that.
Note: You can find a link to Ksitigarbha practice in the FPMT Catalogue.