Pujas and Other Practices for Breast Cancer

My very dear one,
Thank you very much for your kind letter. I am sorry it took so long for me to reply; I was traveling in Nepal and Asia for the last four months.

According to my divination it would be very good for you to do these things for your breast cancer:

1) Recite Black Manjrushri mantra.

2) Do Medicine Buddha practice.

3) If you can, every week (on the 8th, 15th, 20th of the Tibetan calendar, any Buddha days, or also on any day that is convenient) liberate not less than 100 animals, if possible more. You can liberate worms and insects, but also sometimes you can liberate bigger animals. It is very useful to have an altar set up with many tsa-tsas, stupas, statues, scriptures, and pictures of Buddha. You can put them all on a large table, and then take the animals you are going to liberate around the objects as much as you can, keeping the animals at the same level as the holy objects. Also, your family and friends can join you. You can organize this to be done at the center sometimes, with Geshe-la. It is very nice if you invite children, as they can also take the animals around the objects and liberate the animals. Then, you feel you are really giving something to the children, like giving life.

4) You should do Amitayus long-life practice. This is also a very powerful purification practice. By doing it you purify so much negative karma and also you collect so much merit.

5) You can make photocopies of the long-life text on yellow paper, once a week or whenever you can, also making strong prayers and dedications. Afterward, you can put the long-life texts inside holy objects such as stupas and statues.

6) If you are able you can sometimes make long-life tsa-tsas of the three long-life deities.

7) You should recite the Naga King mantra. As you recite the mantra, visualize beams of nectar emanating from Naga King and entering your body, speech, and mind. Instantly you are purified of all sickness, spirit harm, negative karma, and obscurations, including the breast cancer. Everything is purified. All of these things come out of your body in the form of pus and blood, as well as the forms of scorpions, snakes, and dirty liquid. Your body becomes completely purified and illuminated, like the sun shining in a room. All your sickness is instantly destroyed.

Remember to do all the above practices with a bodhicitta motivation, doing them for all sentient beings as well as yourself.

Also, according to my divination there are some pujas that need to be done for you. If you ask the geshe at your Dharma center he can help you.

• La küg tse küg puja
• Chag sum puja
• Lü tor (Naga torma)
• Puja of four major protectors

Also, it would be good for you to take the following Tibetan medicines:

• Rinchen mangjor – take one a week for one week
• Ratnasambhava pill – take one a week for two weeks
• Moon Crystal – take one a week for one week

You should take these precious pills on alternate days. Do not take the pills together and have at least one to two days’ break between taking the pills. I am sending you these pills as it might be hard for you to get them. Soak them in hot water overnight then take them first thing in the morning, chewing the whole pill, which has softened. On the days you take precious pills you should not drink coffee or alcohol, or eat meat.

I will also make prayers for you.

With much love and prayers,
Lama Zopa

P.S. Please make your like most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta.