Urogenital and Menstrual Conditions
Remedy for Endometriosis and Advice for Life Practices
A student with endometriosis had developed an ovarian cyst and was feeling dizzy and unwell. She had also been unemployed for a long time and requested life practices.
My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
I am very, very sorry for the long delay. You should recite one mala a day of the Method of One Syllable of Letter the Mantra of Arya Manjogosha.* This is for success for you, to find a job and in your life.
The middle-length lamrim is the main lamrim to study from beginning to end. It is so important to have realizations of the lamrim in your life; that is the main purpose in the life, as much as we experience lamrim, especially realizations, that is the basis of the tantric path. Study the middle-length lamrim from beginning to end. Read it carefully four times so that it becomes a meditation as well.
Anything you don’t know you can write down and discuss with lamas, geshes or old students who have studied well, otherwise you might get wrong understanding. So study that. This is the most important thing in your life, how to make your life most meaningful by studying and training the mind in that, in order to actualize the lamrim—correctly following the virtuous friend, renunciation, bodhicitta and emptiness—which is the basis of Highest Yoga Tantra. Then do effortful meditation.
Do Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga and within that, stop and do lamrim meditation.
Regarding your health, I checked. Please drink water that has many blessed waters mixed together, from many holy places, like Vajrayogini water, Mount Kailash water, Palden Lhamo lake in Tibet water—the lake which gives predictions—and Reting water, so by drinking that you become free from the lower realms. Also water from the place where Pabongka Rinpoche saw Heruka, that has the sound of Vajrayogini mantra in the water, and also water nectar from Padmasambhava’s cave at Maratika and so forth; so many holy places. The water is mixed and it also contains water that I have blessed with mantras, so it is all mixed.
You should drink this water four times a day for two weeks: very early in the morning, then at around nine a.m. or ten a.m., then at two p.m. or three p.m., and then in the evening before going to bed. Drink a few large spoonfuls of the water, not small spoons but big spoons, not teaspoons but the bigger size, so have two or three spoonfuls of water each time. I will arrange for someone to send the blessed water to you.
Your sickness is not so much going to be helped by Western medicine. It seems better to be checked by the Tibetan doctor, the lady doctor in Kathmandu. She worked for the Tibetan government before and now has her own treatment place. I don’t know her name, but if you check with her, it came out very good to take her specific medicine.
Thank you very much. My heartfelt thanks to you. Numberless thanks for all your dedication for enlightenment, for the teachings of the Buddha and sentient beings. You do so many practices, so I thank you very, very much.
With much love and prayers
[* The Method of One Syllable is a secret practice, not yet translated or available.]
Benign Tumors on Uterus
A student had a diagnosis of three large tumors in her uterus. The tumors were benign but they were causing many health problems, including blood loss, lack of energy and exhaustion.
My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much for your kind letter.
It comes out for you to recite the sutra Entering the Great City of Vaishali, the painkiller sutra, from the Buddha’s teachings. You should recite this sutra, but if you can't then maybe someone else can recite it in front of you. How many times you recite it depends on you. Do this until the pain goes down, which depends, I guess, on your karma. Maybe read it four times and if there is no change then do it another four times.
Of course, the main purpose is to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings, but in the meantime, to stop your sickness. You have to recite it out loud.
It comes out best for you to go to a Chinese doctor a few times, for example, for acupuncture.
You also need to recite two mantras:
Recite these for some time. I am making prayers also.
I hope to see you soon. Thank you very much for your service to the center, to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Yeshe, and to myself.
What makes your life most meaningful is meditation on the lamrim, and to live your life with bodhicitta motivation. This is the best.
With much love and prayers ...
Uterine Fibroids
Rinpoche sent this practice advice to a student who had uterine fibroids (a large myoma or benign tumor.)
My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much your kind letter. I’m sorry you have this problem. My suggestion is to read the Vajra Cutter Sutra at least one time, and if you can read more that would be very good.
Also do the Medicine Buddha practice, reciting the long mantra fifty times.
It is beneficial if I bless water with the long Medicine Buddha mantra and you sip this five times a day, visualizing that the four things—sickness, spirit harm, negative karma and defilements—are completely purified.
But most important is the Vajra Cutter Sutra.
This advice is from the great Kagyu yogi Choje Gotsangpa:
By my experiencing this sickness,
May all the sentient beings be free from sickness, spirit harm, negative karma and defilements collected from beginningless rebirth,
May the sentient beings be separated immediately from sickness, spirit harm, negative karma and defilements and may they achieve the dharmakaya.
Recite this prayer in the same that you recite OM MANI PADME HUM, counting a mala or many malas.
That is extremely good. It makes your sickness beneficial for numberless sentient beings, for everyone, including your friends, enemies and strangers.
I will pray for you. Thank you very much.
With much love and prayers ...
Heavy Menstrual Bleeding
A student wrote that heavy menstrual bleeding was affecting her heart. During her menstrual period, cardiac symptoms of chest pain, palpitations and shortness of breath increased, and she said the palpitations could cause sudden death.
What comes out best is for you to do White Tara meditation. Also, take mani pills for one month and twenty days. (Take three or four.) This is extremely beneficial for you.
Study the lamrim and meditate step-by-step, besides direct meditation, by using The Foundation of All Good Qualities, Calling the Guru From Afar, The Three Principal Aspects of the Path or Lama Tsongkhapa’s Lines of Experience.
Live the life as much as possible with bodhicitta, even if there is no realization, but with effortful motivation, as much as possible.
With much love and prayers...
Vasectomy
Rinpoche sent the following advice to a student who asked if he should have a vasectomy and had various other questions about practice.
Dear William,
Regarding your question about Medicine Buddha mantra, please recite the mantra with three BEKANDZEs.
In terms of studying reiki healing, it would be best to learn it professionally.
Concerning your question about having a vasectomy, instead of cutting the vein, try to control the mind more, try to lessen your attachment.
Vasectomy and Tantric Practice
A student wrote to Rinpoche asking if a vasectomy has a negative influence on male Dharma practitioners, especially when doing tantric practices. Rinpoche advised the following:
Dear Jorgen,
If semen still comes through and if you experience sexual pleasure the same as before, then it is OK.
The main thing in Highest Yoga Tantra is that semen flows and one experiences pleasure. Those are the conditions: semen flowing upward and the pleasure that one uses to meditate on emptiness for the path to enlightenment.
Otherwise, it is OK if certain cells that produce babies are stopped. If semen is flowing and you have sexual pleasure, then when you reach that level you can use that.
With much love and prayers...