Protection from Black Magic

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
I am very sorry for the many eons of delay it took to reply to you. I checked regarding your situation, and this is what came out:

Thirteen Chakra: Geshe-la needs to recite this twenty times. This is from the zungdu (Wyl: gzungs bsdus). [A collection of dharanis found in the Kangyur].

Regarding what you are experiencing, this is normally the kind of thing that happens when there is black magic. This is what happens.

The only thing that can help is practice; that is the main thing to do. Even though somebody harmed you, this came from your past self-cherishing thought. You harmed others in the past and that’s why you receive harm now.

Meditating on guru devotion, renunciation, bodhicitta, right view—the merits from this are unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable. Especially doing any practice with bodhicitta, you collect more than skies of merits. When doing tonglen, each time you are giving your happiness, your body, enjoyments and merits, all the results up to enlightenment. Each time you are giving, you get more than skies of merits, and each time you are taking, again you collect more than skies of merits.

Meditating on guru devotion, renunciation, bodhicitta and right view, you will have no regrets and however much you practice, the merits are always there. Otherwise, just with external methods, whatever you try doesn’t work until you deal with the black magic. It could also be the cause of your breakup with your partner. That could also be connected, although I am not sure.

Some people who have the karma and who know the pujas—the monks and monasteries who know the pujas and prayers, the specific pujas for the monasteries to do—then the problem is stopped. But sometimes a lot of pujas happen and there is much expense, and still the problem doesn’t stop. So it really depends on karma and merits also.

This is one area that scientists in the West don’t know much about yet. They don’t have the power to help, and they don’t know in the West about black magic and what can be done (pujas and prayers). Western society may not accept black magic.

I want to tell you a story about a nun who started her own nunnery. She had black magic, in Tibetan it’s called chekar, so she asked me what to do because one by one all the students there became negative and they left and didn’t come back. Even the main person, the manager became negative and left, so there was nobody helping her. I told her to do Lion-face Dakini practice; I don’t remember the number, but one or two months of the practice. After that, gradually all the people came back, so this is very clear proof. There are other examples I have.

I have just requested the Lama Gyupas at Kopan Monastery to do Lion-face Dakini practice for you, so they will start quickly. 

From your side, if you know tonglen meditation, this is what you can do.

With much love and prayers ...

Dear one,
It seems that you have some black magic. One thing that came out is for one nun to do Vajra Claw three times for you. This is very important and has already been requested.

You need Lion-face Dakini practice to be done 11,000 times by the Kopan Lama Gyupas. If money is not a problem for you, then it’s beneficial to make a good offering to them, as that is also part of purifying or changing the karma, making offerings to the Sangha and the pores of the guru, etc.

When you had a simple life, you might have thought it would be so much better if you had more money, more space and so forth. Perhaps from time to time you might have thought if only you had more money; that wish can arise. Sometimes when it is an especially hard life, then those thoughts might arise. 

Now I think [your wealth is] because you came to clean the stupas. I told you to clean the stupas, so there are unbelievable merits from doing that, and then you wrote the Sanghata Sutra thirty times. Wow, wow, wow, wow. I wish I was that person who wrote the Sanghata Sutra thirty times. There are so many projects in the FPMT; unbelievable projects that are to benefit sentient beings and the teachings of Buddha. I am the one who is supposed to do that, to write out this many sutras, to create the merit for all the projects. 

Cleaning the stupa is unbelievable merit and purification, so now, suddenly you have an unimaginable life, like a dream, and you make each year so much money. But you see, with that you have obstacles, with that you can’t enjoy life, and especially violent thoughts arise. This cuts down your practice, so there is less virtue, less mind to have virtue, therefore depending on that you can receive black magic and this problem arises. 

In my observation the Kopan Lama Gyupas need to do the Lion-face Dakini prayer 11,000 times. If you count each monk then it’s easy. So this came out very good. And one nun should recite Vajra Claws three times for you.

You need to protect your life, otherwise the situation can be very dangerous. You need to wear some protections. I will bless them here and post them to you. [Visit the FPMT Catalogue to find protection items.] The protections you need to wear are:

• White Umbrella protection
• Namgyalma protection 
• Lion-Face Dakini protection

Take them off when you shower or swim so that they don’t get wet and take them off when you sleep, but keep them close to you. Otherwise, wear them.

Going for pilgrimage is best for you, like to Mount Kailash and Tibet. It directs your energy toward positive things, intention.

Complete the year doing your job as you have promised, then you can see. Anyway, you can think that with the money you earn then you can do pilgrimage, you can do many things.

What is the dedication that you do when writing out the sutra or when you finish a sutra? Do you make a very good dedication? This is so important. I am attaching the general dedication that I do.

Please guard your mind and your life. As Lama Tsongkhapa has said, this is only one time that you have received a perfect human body and met the Dharma. Not only have you met the Dharma, the four noble truths, to be free from samsara forever, but you have also met the Mahayana Sutra Dharma, in order to achieve enlightenment for all sentient beings, and not only that, you have met the Mahayana tantra teachings, which are a quick way to achieve enlightenment in one life, to bring sentient beings quickly to enlightenment. Not only that, you have met Highest Yoga Tantra, in order to achieve enlightenment in a brief lifetime of degenerate time, to be able to enlighten sentient beings quickly. 

This is so precious, it’s unbelievable, so please protect your life from spirit harms. This is your negative karma. The result of negative karma is spirit harm, negative thoughts, negative actions and thoughts to harm, which destroy you. Please don’t follow what the negative mind thinks, the thoughts that arise. Don’t immediately follow that.

Many times things happen and many people kill themselves. This is actually due to following spirit harm, due to negative karma, so the spirits make people think a certain way. People think it is their own thoughts, “This is what I feel, what I think,” then they do that action, causing harm.

For example, in Japan there was a man standing at a train station, and suddenly he pushed another man who fell down in front of the train and was killed. So many things can happen due to spirit harm. That man said someone told him to push the other man. So you have to be careful and look for reasons. Be careful and look for reasons, logical reasons, otherwise don’t do negative things, don’t just follow what your mind thinks or says. 

I checked and you don’t need to write the Sanghata Sutra anymore, so now you can write out Dependent Arising: A Praise of the Buddha by Lama Tsongkhapa 5,000 times. This is so you have realizations of that.

This is my advice at this time. 

With much love and prayer ...

My most dear, most kind, most precious wish-fulfilling one,

I am very sorry about how long it took to reply. I checked and you should do the following:

• Practice Lion-face Dakini, with the clapping at the end of the prayer, for two months.
• You need one protection called Ru. I can send it to you.
• Kopan monks to recite Sel Chen (against black magic). It is in the Kangyur; this one is very important.

Please live your life with bodhicitta night and day, and with every action that you do.

With much love and prayers ...

Rinpoche was able to check and advised these practices:

• She needs to read the Sutra of Golden Light: ten times
• The Prajnaparamita: the collection of 8,000 verses in one volume (Tib: gyetongpa): to be recited three times
• She should recite the Dharani Extremely Conquering from Bondage mantra.
• Vajra Claws (Skt: Dorje Dermo): to be recited eleven times by the Kopan nuns
• Drugchuma [a puja to eliminate obstacles]: to be recited four times by the Kopan monks.

[You can find links to the Dharani Extremely Conquering from Bondage, Dharani of Glorious Vajra Claws, and Drugchuma in the FPMT Catalogue.]

OM GHA SA SHA KUN HRI TSI DHAKA LA NA BA GA SU BAB SVAHA

Short Prayer of Padmasambhava

Hung! At the border of the North-west Orgyen country
On the trunk of the lotus stem
The wonderful sublime attainment is found.
It is known as originator from the lotus surrounded by circles of so many skygoers.
For me to be able to follow you and to become you
Please descend here in order to bless me for that.

Precious guru, the three time buddhas,
The great bliss, the originator of all realizations,
Eliminating obstacles, in the act of wrathful actions subduing the maras,
I request, please grant common and sublime realizations.
Please bless to pacify the outer, inner, and secret obstacles,
And may all my wishes succeed immediately.

OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA SIDDHI HUM

OM AH HUM VAJRA GURU PADMA THOD THRENG TSÄL VAJRA SAMAYA JAH SIDDHI PHALA HUM AH

Generate strong faith that Padmasambhava is right in front of you, or on your crown. Think that Padmasambhava's omniscient mind can see you, understand your request, and think that there is no place that Padmasambhava's holy body, speech, and mind does not cover. Think that Padmasambhava, radiant, glorious, magnificent one, looks at you with a compassionate smile and loving eyes.

This short prayer combines both prayers of Padmasambhava (Illuminating the Obstacles and Accomplishing the Wishes).