Protection from Black Magic

The practice of the 21 Praises to Tara can be done in this way, where the practice becomes specific according to the problems and obstacles being faced by a person or people. If that is a disease, it can have that focus. If somebody is trying to avoid prison, it can have that focus. Every problem or fear can be approached with this practice.

Please perform the 21 Praises to Tara at the Dharma center four times in a week. As you are not doing the full sadhana, you should start with refuge and bodhicitta, then the four immeasurable thoughts, then generate bodhicitta, followed by the Seven Limbs and short mandala offering.

When you do the 21 Praises to Tara, you can recite each of the Tara mantras, with a strong prayer to each Tara for Joanne to recover from her illness.

When it comes to White Tara, recite the White Tara mantra 30 times, sending white purifying light to Joanne.

When it comes to Tara Destroying all Obstacles, recite this mantra 70 times, visualizing Tara sending light destroying all obstacles, diseases, spirit harm, and negative karma. Recite the mantra with this visualization.

When it comes to the Tara giving long life, recite her mantra 50 times, sending light pacifying all life obstacles and untimely death.

When it comes to the Tara whose purpose is to prevent harm, especially black magic, recite her mantra 50 times.

You can repeat this up to three times. This means, for the first one to three recitations of the 21 Taras, you can elaborate as I have explained here. After doing one to three recitations of the 21 Taras this way, then you can continue doing the 21 Praises in the normal way.

At the end, read the benefits of reciting Tara praises and then recite the dedication prayers. There are seven important dedications, like the King of Prayers, that you can read. You can choose.

My dear one,
How are you? I hope your holy body, holy speech, holy mind, and everything is well, including your toes.

According to my observations, it does seem that there is a risk of receiving harm from black magic. You should recite one mala or 80 Black Manjushri mantras in the morning. This mantra seems very important.

There is also a protection mantra that it would be beneficial for you to wear. This also brings good fortune to your family. You should wear it all the time. At night, when you are asleep, it may fall under your body, and this is not good. If there is a way you can wear it when you go to bed so as to prevent it falling under your body, for example, on your arm, that might be OK, as long as you don’t turn over and then the mantra falls under your body. So, if you can figure out a way to wear it also at night time, but making sure that you do not sleep on it, that would be good.

This is a very powerful protection. This mantra pacifies war, fighting, disputes, others criticizing us, and black magic. It protects us from the four dangers of fire, water, and so forth, and protects us from human harms and non-human harms. It actually returns the harm back to the other person. I am not sure if this happens just by wearing it or if you have to recite it. Definitely, when you recite it, it returns the harmful black magic to where it came from. If someone shoots a bullet then the bullet actually goes back to the person. The protection mantra is a direct teaching of Buddha from the Mantra Serchen, from the Kangyur Volume XX, in the section of collection of mantras.

Also, you should recite the prayer to eliminate obstacles by Padmasambhava and the short Prayer to Padmasambhava. Recite them with the mantra. Reciting one mala every day would be best, particularly at this time. This is very powerful and you can do it for any emergency any time in your life.

With much love and prayers...