Recurring Breast Cancer
A woman with recurring breast cancer wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice.
My very dear Joan,
Thank you very much for your kind letter. According to my observations, it is best for you to continue treatment with your Chinese doctor and taking Eastern medicine.
It would be very good for you to practice Most Secret Hayagriva. Make strong requests to Hayagriva (visualize him in front of you) to immediately purify all your sickness, spirit harm, negative karma, and obscurations and to receive all the qualities, from guru devotion up to enlightenment, especially all the qualities of Hayagriva's enlightened body, speech, and mind, so that you can enlighten all sentient beings. Then, chant the mantra.
It is also best for you to liberate 250 animals. You can do that at my house in Aptos. On the days that the nuns do animal liberation there, you can buy worms, take them there, and liberate them. If you can't buy all 250 worms at one time then you can do it a few times.
As well as dedicating the practice to your long life, also dedicate it to His Holiness the Dalai Lama's long life, as well as all the gurus, all the Sangha who preserve the holy Dharma, and all the benefactors.
In the future, after you have read the complete lamrim (such as Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand and other lamrim books), you can take the Hayagriva initiation.
Please study the lamrim and practice meditations on the graduated path to enlightenment, step by step, as explained in the books.
Please continue to make your life most beneficial for all sentient beings.
With much love and prayers...