Travel and Immigration
Query About Travel and Sur Practice
A student asked if it was beneficial to go to Tibet. The student also asked whether to explain sur practice to other people.
My very dear one,
Thank you for your kind email, I am sorry for the long delay.
I checked about you going to Tibet. You must do the protector pujas Mahakala, Kalarupa, Namtose, Hayagriva—the full protector pujas called Khangso. Then going to Tibet is good, otherwise it’s not good. Maybe, not sure, a heart attack might happen. Request the Kopan nuns to do the pujas for you.
Regarding your question about sur, the initiation is a big spank on the backside, like parents beating their children—in the East we do that but not in the West—just joking. Yes, please explain, I am sure it’s very good as many people want to do sur. It’s very good to do, because it helps the pretas and smell eaters. It’s their food, so it’s good to do, as there are numberless smell eaters.
Please continue to make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta day and night and in every action you do.
With much love and prayers...
Success in Removing Visa Obstacles
A student’s partner had been unable to leave the country for many years and needed a visa. Rinpoche advised the following practices for success.
Rinpoche checked for your partner’s visa and said it looks quite difficult and complicated. These are the things to be done to help remove obstacles and have success.
- Read Gyaltsen Tsemoi Pungyen 80 times. Your partner will have to do this in Tibetan.
- Recite Namgyalma mantra 500 times. This can be mostly the short mantra and some of the long mantra. You need to visualize purifying sentient beings, with bodhicitta motivation.
- Do a lot of Chenrezig practice, reciting a lot of mani mantras. You need to do this with great sincerity and visualize purifying the six realm sentient beings.
Note for Hotel Maid
Rinpoche stayed overnight in a hotel on his way to Mongolia. The first thing Rinpoche does when entering a hotel is turn all the lights on and begin extensive offering practice. In the morning before leaving for the airport, Rinpoche left a $5 tip for the cleaning lady and this small note, written on the hotel’s guest comment card.
I had so much worldly pleasure here, so much sleep. What I did is I blessed all the light offerings in the room and I offered them to Guru, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, and I rejoiced in all the merits of the buddhas and bodhisattvas and all beings, and I did three prostrations. I did two full-length and one I did half-length, on the bed, because I had a stroke a few years ago. So this is what I did to make useful the money spent staying here. Thank you.
I dedicated for you to have a long life and to be healthy and for all your wishes to succeed according to the Dharma, to have an ethical mind and pure mind.
With much love and prayers...
Border Crossing to Nepal
A Tibetan who had recently returned to his homeland wasn’t permitted to cross back into Nepal.
Rinpoche is saying prayers, and he checked and said to recite Sampa Nyur Drupma[a prayer to Padmasambhava for quick success] a few thousand times.
Obstacles to Getting a Visa
Rinpoche did a lot of checking and advised the following practices for a student with visa obstacles. After the student did the practices, he successfully got the visa.
- Most Secret Hayagriva fire puja
- Kalarupa puja
- Palden Lhamo puja with tsog
- Six-arm Mahakala puja
Removing Long-term Visa Obstacles
Rinpoche gave the following advice to a monk who asked how he could get a long-term visa so he can continue his Dharma studies.
Dear one,
These are the things you need to do:
1) Read zungdu [Collection of Dharanis] once.
2) Recite the mantra DONYON SHAGPA MARPO (for yellow Amoghapasha) 4,000 times.
3) Each month do the incence puja to Padmasambhava Lhasang Namdak Choku. This is a particular offering to the guru, Buddha, yidam, dakas and dakinis and Dharma protectors. Rinpoche said this puja is good to do, but dedicate for all the Sangha who have visa issues and also please dedicate for the success of all FPMT projects, especially the Maitreya Project. This can also help for your success.
4) Do the general protector pujas and prayers regularly, especially Namtose, for your success and for all your obstacles to be removed.
5) Do the White Mahakala torma offering prayer regularly. This is very good for you and very good for visas. Make offerings such as biscuits and other things to the real White Mahakala in front of you (not a picture or statue), then offer the torma.