Various Cancers

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
According to my observation you should take the moon crystal precious pill, Rinchen Tsotru Dhashel. Take it five times, with five days’ break between each pill. So take one, then nothing for five days, then take the next one. Because it’s wrapped you need to break it, then drink with hot water. Do this without the light, and it’s best to do it in the early morning.

You should recite Guru Shakyamuni Buddha’s name and mantra, La ma tön pa chom dän de…. This purifies 80,000 billion eons each time we recite it. By reciting this mantra, we go only toward enlightenment, we become beneficial like Guru Shakyamuni Buddha himself, like Chenrezig, and it becomes easy to practice and realize tantra.

You should do one mala per day, and while reciting, look with your eyes open at a very nice picture, thangka or statue of Guru Shakyamuni Buddha. I am attaching a picture, so if you don’t have one you can print this out and look at it.

You should also practice Medicine Buddha, seeing [Medicine Buddha] as inseparable from the guru. If you have received initiation from His Holiness, practice seeing oneness [of guru and buddha], make strong requests and then purify. Nectar beams are sent to you with much love and compassion, loving kindness and compassion, like filling the whole sky. The nectar beams totally purify disease, spirit harm, negative karma and defilements. Those negative karmas and defilements collected from beginningless rebirths are totally purified, and especially all the disease, the prostate cancer, is totally purified. So do that strongly, with three malas of Medicine Buddha mantra per day.

If you can also do tonglen, that’s unbelievable. Do it sincerely from the heart—from the heart or from the feet.

With much love and prayers...

Rinpoche checked and said you need the following:

• Tse wer nadar puja: To be done for you seventeen times.
• Mani pills: Take five pills every day for two months.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much for your kind letter, I was very happy to receive it. I am sorry for the long delay.

If you are going to make a painting, please do it using the best example. Copy from the best example and do it very well, then there is unbelievable merit and it creates the cause of enlightenment. You receive incredible purification and collect extensive merit, and it creates the cause of enlightenment. But if you paint an image of Buddha and make mistakes, then that actually creates negative karma and you have to suffer for many lifetimes. This is really important to know. 

I want to post you a blessed string. Recently one student told me some stories about his two dogs which were very close to death. (This happened at different times.) He put blessed strings on the dogs, and both dogs miraculously recovered. 

The blessing strings were blessed with many thousands of OM MANI PADME HUM mantras, as well as Namgyalma mantra, the five powerful mantras and others. This blessing cord should not just be taken like a custom, just to put on the altar or put somewhere in a container. It should be worn; the idea is for it to touch your body. There are so many benefits explained regarding how these mantras can purify negative karma. So these blessing strings can purify our negative karma and our suffering can become less. 

Also, when a person or animal dies or is dead, we can put the blessed string on their body. Even if they died a long time ago, we can still put it on their body, as it purifies their negative karma. Even if the consciousness is not there, if the consciousness is somewhere else, no matter how far away it is, it still has effect. 

Please use this blessing string in this way, wearing it as a protection and blessing, or putting it on animals or people who are sick, dying or who have passed away. 

You also need to take two precious pills called ratna samphel. Take one pill one week, then a week later take the other pill. Take the pill first thing in the morning. They are wrapped in cloth because you can’t expose the pill to the light. That means you should open it under a blanket and take it while in the dark, with your head under the blanket. It is hard, so you can either crush it or bite it, then put it in your mouth and drink with warm water.

Think, “I want to achieve happiness, but the purpose of my life is not just temporary happiness or even ultimate happiness, freedom from samsara. Even everlasting happiness is not the purpose of my life. The purpose of my life is to free the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsara and bring them to enlightenment, the peerless happiness—the cessation of all the obscurations and completion of all the realizations.” 

For that we need to achieve buddhahood, therefore think, “I am going to meditate on emptiness.” Think about the ultimate nature of reality. We think there is a real "I" and real cancer, but all that is a hallucination, the view of our ignorance, the view of our mind. The ultimate reality is that there is no I who has cancer and there is no cancer. Meditate on that for as long as you can each time.

Meditate that although everything appears as real, it is just a hallucination, a projection of the view of ignorance. There is no real I, no real cancer, all those things, no real karma from the past. What is there is the merely labeled I and the merely labeled cancer. This is most unbelievably subtle, and it is not easy to realize; it is difficult to realize.

Please try this, and please read my advice on how to meditate on emptiness. This is what came out best for you to do.

If you can, also recite the Compassion Buddha mantra with bodhicitta; this OM MANI PADME HUM mantra is the best one. It is most important, because we have to die and we are not sure when we will die. We are not sure when, it can happen anytime, then whether the next life is a good rebirth depends on karma, so it’s important to achieve enlightenment for sentient beings.

You need to recite Most Secret Hayagriva mantra, first taking refuge to Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. You also need to recite some Vajra Armor mantras, but you don't have to recite many of these. [Find links to these mantras here.]

It is important for both these recitations that you are not only thinking about yourself. Samsara is endless and there are numberless sentient beings in samsara, suffering so much, so dedicate for them. Also take strong refuge in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. 

You can look at a picture of Most Secret Hayagriva and recite the mantra and think that while you are doing the recitation, mantra beams emit from Most Secret Hayagriva and purify all your negative karma, spirt harm, sickness and obscurations.

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 ...

My most dear, most precious most kind, most wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much for your letter, your information and requests.

You need to read the Amitayus Long Life Sutra twenty times. This is the most urgent thing you need to do. Normally this sutra is for long life, but it is also for purification.

Recite the sutra not only for your own sickness and health, but also for the next life—to have a good rebirth, to be free from samsara and also for the numberless sentient beings to be free from the oceans of suffering of cyclic existence and for them to reach enlightenment. In order to do that, you need to be enlightened. Do the recitation with this motivation to become enlightened.

In the book How to Face Death Without Fear there is a section on integrating the five powers. It’s very good if you read this. You can also read about the five powers of life in Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand. It’s very good for you to read about the five powers of death and also the five powers of life. This is a very important practice; it’s most important for your mind and to make your life meaningful.

I was wondering how you are now, with all the treatments you are having. Are you feeling the same, or better or worse?

I will send you some recorded mantras that you can recite. When reciting these mantras, the motivation is to liberate all sentient beings and bring them to enlightenment. You can recite whatever you like of those mantras—one mala, half a mala, twenty-one times or even ten times.

It’s also very, very good if you can recite the mantra from the Sutra of Great Liberation.

There is also long mantra from a text called Dorje Namjong [Skt: Vajravidarana]. I need to get the mantra put into phonetics so you can recite it. I will arrange this and send it to you soon. It is very good if you can recite this mantra. It’s very long, and you should recite it with strong devotion.

Every day if you can, read The Foundation of All Good Qualities and Three Principal Aspects of the Path. These texts are most important to leave positive imprints and they are the foundation for tantra, which is the quickest path to enlightenment, and within that, Highest Yoga Tantra is the quickest.

For the mind to become closer to enlightenment, these prayers should be read as the foundation for tantra. You can also read A Hymn of Experience. Recite at least one of these three prayers each day and when you read the prayer, read it mindfully.

Then there is the lamrim, the graduated path to enlightenment. From the different lamrim texts, it’s best if you can read Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand. Read it from the beginning and slowly, slowly read some each day. It is so good. You can also read a shorter text, Essence of Refined Gold. That is also very good.

In the evening, do Vajrasattva practice with the four powers. If you can, recite the long mantra twenty-one times or the short mantra twenty-eight times with the four powers. Then the negativities of that day will not increase tomorrow. This is important to do as it purifies the negativities of that day, of the life and of past lives, which are beginningless. Otherwise, the negativities of one day become like a mountain if they are not purified. This is just talking about one negativity, but there are so many negativities that we create.

Dedicate with bodhicitta, reciting the dedication prayers. [Go to the FPMT Catalogue to find links to recommended Dedication Prayers.] And seal with emptiness:

“Due to all the past, present, and future merits collected by me, the numberless buddhas, and the numberless sentient beings, which are completely empty of existing from their own side, may I, who am completely empty of existing from my own side, achieve the state of full enlightenment, which is completely empty of existing from its own side, and lead all sentient beings, who are completely empty of existing from their own side, to that state, which is completely empty of existing from its own side, by myself alone, who am completely empty of existing from my own side.”

Do this as much as possible, because life is very short. It’s like lightning and then it’s gone. However, for you, with this sickness and being able to practice, it makes your life so meaningful compared with being completely distracted by attachment.

Not only is your life made meaningful, without these conditions so much negativity would be created. Therefore this makes your life meaningful and best of all, you can free all sentient beings from suffering, not just giving them temporary happiness but also the ultimate happiness of enlightenment.

With much love and prayers ...

Dear one,
Rinpoche read your emails and checked extensively for you. What came out best for your health at this time is for you to do the practice of Most Secret Hayagriva, reciting the mantra every day with concentration. You need to recite four malas of the mantra each day.

I assume you have not received the initiation. This means you can’t arise as the deity, but just have the deity absorb into you.

This is the meditation:

First generate the motivation for doing the practice, that you are doing this for the benefit of all beings.

Then think Most Secret Hayagriva is paying attention to you, with lots of compassion for you and for all sentient beings. Most Secret Hayagriva sends light, which goes through you and also goes to all beings, like a dark room that is lit up. The light dispels all the sickness, especially your cancer, disease and spirit harm, and also from where these come—all the negative karma and defilements.

Recite four malas per day of the mantra:

HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT

At the end, think you are totally purified, then the deity absorbs into you and you receive all the qualities. Think you and all sentient beings are totally healed.

Then dedicate the merit. You can use any of Rinpoche’s dedication prayers, just one or two or whatever you wish.

I am attaching a picture of the deity for you to look at when you recite the mantra. You can print this and frame it. It should not be on display for everyone to see; it’s better to keep it hidden and then open a curtain to look at it when you do the practice.

This was Rinpoche’s advice to you. He has also been doing prayers for you and will continue to do so. The Sangha at Rinpoche’s house are also praying for you.

• Gyab shi puja: to be done twice for you by the Lama Gyupas in Dharamsala.

• Jampel Tsenjö [Chanting the Names of Manjushri]: the Kopan Lama Gyupas need to recite this five times for you. Ask them to pray for you to immediately be healthy for sentient beings and to have a meaningful life, to actualize bodhicitta and quickly achieve enlightenment for sentient beings. This is what they are to pray for when they read this for you.