Protection and Blessing of Retreat Land

Dear ones,
For protection you need the White Umbrella Tibetan text (this is mantra, prayers, and benefits). I will send it to you. Along with this is the mantra for protection from fire—the Mantra Heart of Vairochana.

Regarding the White Umbrella Tibetan text, this should be printed and pasted onto big billboards at the four corners of the retreat land, also in retreatants’ own retreat houses and boundaries. It should at least be in the four directions (or monastery, city, and town, area).

The mantras and texts that are to be posted around the land should be blessed. If there is a very good practitioner or a high lama, then ask him or her to bless them to make them more powerful. Otherwise you can bless them yourselves, or ask one of the retreatants.

Method for Blessing

Refuge:
In your mind, make a strong request to Guru, Buddha, and Sangha to absorb into the texts. Make a strong request and think they all absorb into the texts. Recite the mantra of dependent arising 21 times. It is important to have strong faith in this method and protection.

By having White Umbrella mantra, one is unable to be harmed by contagious disease or from the elements, such as water, fire, wind, and earth. It provides protection from wars, enemies, and people wanting to harm.

Each person at the retreat land should take it in turns to recite White Umbrella prayer. Each person does it for a week and rotates like that, so it is always being recited by someone on the land. There is great benefit for the retreat land and also for the individual.

The Mantra Heart of Vairochana just needs to be displayed around, in people’s houses, also at the four corners of the land.