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Practices for Person with HIV

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A student who was HIV-positive asked Rinpoche for practice advice. 

My dear, most precious, most kind one,
Thank you for your letter. For you, Sengdrak Rinpoche’s blessed medicine comes out good. Take one small spoonful early in the morning, then again at ten in the morning, at two in the afternoon, and again in the evening, so that’s four times per day. Do this for five days. Then you can check how you are feeling and what is happening in the body.

Also do tonglen meditation. Read my advice on how to do that.

Then you should recite the great mantra, sung chen, two or three times each day.

You should recite the Diamond Cutter Sutra one or two times each day. Maybe twice a day is better, otherwise once. Try that for one month, it’s very good. In my observation it came out as best.

You can also do nyung näs. This came out in my observation as very good. So do these whenever you can, even if it’s not every day, do it as many times, as much as you can.

The best one, the most important thing, of course, is to be cured forever, to become free from the oceans of samsaric suffering by directly ceasing karma and delusion—directly ceasing the imprint of karma and delusion by the wisdom realizing emptiness.

So please let me know how everything goes with the medicine and the practice.

With much love and prayers ...