My dear venerable holy one, the only one in the world,
Great to hear from you after such a long time, that you are existing in human form in this world and being a great monk. Great! Great! Your body is so precious being a monk. It is like a relic. You are as holy as the number of vows in which you are living.
I understand about the lung, which comes up when one is bored and tired of doing prayers. When one sees the prayer book, lung comes. Things that are difficult and things that we don’t like bring lung. I don’t think that the things we really enjoy bring lung. Do you agree? Sometimes when you put a lot of energy into something, suddenly the energy changes and then you change, you give up. For example, there was a monk who worked really hard for a very long time with computers, even through the night, and then it suddenly changed, and he couldn’t do that work any more. The energy just changed.
So, in this case, it’s something that you get bored with and don’t like, and this will give you lung. Psychologically, the antidote is to accept it. Whenever you encounter problems, rather than being unhappy and suffering, accept it as a result of past karma, then it becomes no longer a problem, or much less. Especially, think of the benefits of the problem. The basis for accepting the problem is thinking of its benefits. By experiencing it, it enables you to finish past negative karma. Kadampa Geshe Kharag Gomchung said even a small suffering in the present finishes very heavy past negative karmas, which make us be reborn in the lower realms, hell realms, and experience suffering for many eons. Then, you will have a happy life in the future.
Therefore, one should meditate, rejoicing in having suffering and problems. Then, of course, as you know from thought transformation practices, use your problem to practice bodhicitta, for taking and giving practice—taking all sentient beings’ suffering in the form of pollution through the nostrils, into the heart, destroying the ego, the self-cherishing thought, completely, so there’s nothing left. Meditate on the “I” to be refuted, the object of ignorance. Do more taking. Do this a few times. Then, at other times, think: “I’m experiencing this for all sentient beings.” Whenever lung comes, think like that. Whenever you are able to think like that, you collect so much merit and the body becomes like a wish-granting jewel. With this body, with each taking and giving, when you experience suffering for others, many eons of negative karma are purified. And each time you become closer to enlightenment. Of course, this is the best practice, as you know.
Other suggestions of very mundane methods: it would be good to use the lung incense made by the Tibetan medical centers and doctors. Also, apply tiger balm to the body. Also, you can use the Tibetan medicine, Akara-soga 35 (for life wind sicknesses).
It would be very good for you to stay in the monastery. You could stay for eons!
With love and prayers...
