Back, Leg and Joint Conditions

Back, Leg and Joint Conditions

How to Think After Falling
Date of Advice:
October 2018
Date Posted:
April 2021

A student wrote that she had sustained injuries from several falls. The first time she bruised or fractured a rib, then she fell again and hurt her back, and then she slipped and dislocated her knee. Rinpoche gave this advice.

The first technique, it is good to think, "I have not recovered!"

A second technique is to think, "This is how it is in samsara; it never ends."

Another way to think, “Hopefully the last fall will be at Rinpoche’s house when I come to see him.” [The student lived nearby.]

In the meantime, ask Geshe-la to do Drugchuma puja either at your house or if he can't manage that, then he can do it at his house. You don’t have to be there.

At least once a day recite the Thirty-five Buddhas practice. Do this for the children as well, and dedicate, not just for children at the school you work at, but for all the children!

With much love and prayer ...

Practices for Weak, Numb Legs
Date of Advice:
February 2017
Date Posted:
April 2018

A student had a problem with his spinal cord, buttock and legs. A blood vessel had compressed the nerves in his spinal cord, causing weakness and numbness in his legs. Both legs were numb, however, the right foot was worse.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
I am very sorry for the long delay in replying to your email. I checked and if you can, do the following:

  • Take two jüng nga pills for five days. [This is Tibetan medicine]
  • Drink water from Maratika. [Padmasambhava’s holy place in Nepal]
  • Drink water from Reting in Tibet. This came out best.
  • Guhyasamaja root text: this is to be recited three times. Request Gyume Tantric College in Dharamsala to do this for you.

The dedication will be for you to quickly recover and to have a most meaningful, healthy life—most meaningful by generating bodhicitta as well as emptiness—and to never ever be reborn in lower realms again and to achieve enlightenment as quickly as possible.

  • Lu zong puja: to be done by Gyume Tantric College in Dharamsala.
  • You should get five bottles of blessed water from Kopan. This is a collection of all different waters and is blessed by me. When you get this, drink some in the early morning, then at around 9-10am and at 2-3pm, then before sunset and before going to bed.
  • Hayagriva tsog puja: to be done four times at Sera Je Monastery, India.
  • White Umbrella Deity prayer: I will recite this for you.

I am also making many prayers for you.

With much love and prayers ...

Practices for Hip Pain
Date of Advice:
January 2015
Date Posted:
February 2018

A student had a painful hip for many weeks and was unable to walk due to the pain. Rinpoche checked, with many mos, and advised these practices.

It seems you are receiving harm from nagas. This has to be cleared, otherwise medical treatment will not have much benefit.

I have done a number of pujas and prayers to Tara and so forth. I will also recite White Umbrella deity [Tib: du kar] prayer for you and do Kalarupa puja [Tib: drug chu ma] twice.

In addition:

  • Geshe-la needs to do the puja Liberating from the Harm of the Naga and Landlord [Tib: lu dang sa dag gi don drol]
  • The Lama Gyupas at Kopan Monastery can do Kalarupa puja twice
  • Take two ratna sam phel pills, about five days apart
  • Wear the protection amulet Liberating from Bondage
Chronic Neck Pain
Date of Advice:
May 2015
Date Posted:
May 2017

A cervical herniated disc had caused partial paralysis of a student's left arm and he was in constant pain due to cervicobrachial neuralgia, nerve pain radiating from his neck. The student requested Rinpoche’s advice and recommendations.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
I am sorry for the long delay.

I checked and if you can, read the Vajra Cutter Sutra three times by yourself. That is extremely powerful. It cuts the root of the oceans of samsaric suffering, not just disease, but the oceans of suffering of each realm—the hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, human beings, suras and asuras. It would help a lot if you could read this three times. It leaves a positive imprint on the mind and helps to quickly realize shunyata, emptiness, and by the way it also pacifies obstacles.

Don’t read the sutra only to pacify your own problems. There are numberless people who have even worse suffering than yours, so read it for all of them and for all those people who need to read the Vajra Cutter Sutra.

If you can, ask Kopan nunnery to read the Prajnaparamita texts for you. There are three volumes, small, medium and large.

Also you need to read the Golden Light Sutra at least four times.

I will do some pujas for you also, including jung shi, the torma offering to the harmonious elements, a practice composed by Phadampa Sangye.

With much love and prayers...

Practices for Neck Pain
Date of Advice:
December 2014
Date Posted:
August 2016

A student had been experiencing pain for more than a year due to problems with her neck, which had affected her mobility.

 

Experiencing Back Pain as a Result of Past Karma
Date of Advice:
January 2016
Date Posted:
March 2016

A student suffered from severe back pain. He was unable to sit down or do much daily work, and felt pain even when getting dressed. Many tests had been completed, but doctors could not ascertain why it is so painful.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Do you remember if you kicked an animal or a human being, or caused a lot of pain to one? Do you remember doing that in this life ? If not, then it is past life karma. If you remember something, then it could also be this life’s karma.

When my teacher Gen Jampa Wangdu was in Tibet, before he started studying, there was an old man in the debating place. Gen Jampa Wangdu picked up a stick and beat both the old man’s knees for some time. Later, in Dharamsala, I think seven years before passing away, Geshe la said he had a lot of pain in his knees, so much pain in his knees, and he thought it was because of what he did in the monastery a long time ago.

[He showed this] outside aspect, but he had very high realizations. [The pain in his knees] was instead of experiencing the lower realms for eons, with heavy suffering for a long time. Of course this is just what he showed. Of course, he is a buddha, but outside he showed that teaching, what he experienced in this life, then he finished the karma, so he showed that aspect.

Ordinary people would have to experience the lower realms instead, maybe for eons, and they would have to experience unbelievable, unbelievable suffering. Compared with that, the suffering of human beings is nothing. As a human, even the most heavy suffering is great peace compared to the suffering of the lower realms.

I checked and these are the pujas needed for you:

  •  Golden Light Sutra: twice
  • Torma Purifying the Obscuring Pollution : twice
  •  Druk-chu-ma
  •  Tsung-du at Tsawa Khang-tsen [monastic house at Sera je Monastery, South India]

There might be other pujas, but this is what I can think of now.

With much love and prayers...

 

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