Very Sick Student

Student’s symptoms: Extreme fatigue and weakness, soreness throughout the body; feeling as if she was burning up and freezing (perhaps due to menopause); cervical and uterine growths (one cervical growth was removed); episodic painful aching inside the bones, especially in the arms, legs, hands and feet, and episodic stabbing pain in the neck, shoulders, mid-back, lower back, feet and hands; numbness in the hands and feet; lack of range of motion in the neck (degenerative arthritis with spondylosis [arthritis making holes in the bones] at C4 and 5 and L4 and 5 and degenerative disc disease); spasms in the intestine causing immediate explosive blood, feces and mucus (which she cannot control); burning in the intestine and anus; gas and bloating, with digestion impaired; blood clots and bloody mucus with discharges that look like flesh/skin; cramping and feeling of painful knotting up of the intestine (ulcerative colitis); joints make a cracking sound when she moves.

Rinpoche's Response

This is my advice for you:

1) I need to bless some mantra water for you to drink a sip of every day until the water is finished.
2) His Holiness the Dalai Lama Vajrakilaya powder: Take two teaspoons a day (morning and evening) for five days. I will give you this.
3) Padmasambhava mantra: Eat ten a day for one month. Your friend will make this up into tsampa balls. You need to put the head of the mantra in your mouth first. Don’t bite it, but swallow it whole.
4) Most Secret Hayagriva mantra: For you to eat. Your friend will make this. I have hand-written the mantra and I will make a stamp of it. You should eat eight a day for five weeks.
5) Khung la pill: Four a day for ten weeks. I will give these to you.
6) Hayagriva Tsog Kong: This is a very extensive Hayagriva puja. I will organize this at Sera.
7) Wear the protection mantra liberating body, speech, and mind. I will give this to you. Make sure you wear it all the time.
8) Wear the six syllable mantra. I will write this and give it to you. Also, wear this all the time.
9) I asked a monk to read a number of texts for you yesterday, for protection. Maybe it would be nice to make a small offering to him for this.
10) You need to do White Heruka practice every day for five weeks. [Find links to this practice in the FPMT Catalogue.]
11) You need to make 100 long life tsa tsas (divide them between you and the two nuns). When you have finished, it would be good to make a small offering to both of them for this.