The Benefits of Reciting Chenrezig Mantra

The Benefits of Reciting Chenrezig Mantra

Date of Advice:
July 2019
Date Posted:
March 2023

Rinpoche advised that if we recite one thousand or more Chenrezig mantras (Manis) every day, anything that touches our body, like wind or water, can purify the past negative karma of numberless sentient beings. Rinpoche also said that after reciting the mantra we can blow on containers of water and use the water for healing.

BENEFITS OF RECITING one thousand MANIS OR MORE EVERY DAY

Anything that touches you, even wind blowing over you, and then if it touches any creature it purifies them and they do not get reborn in the lower realms.

And if you go into water, such as into a river and especially into an ocean, when that water becomes one with the rest of the ocean, all those sentient beings—those like mountains or the smallest ones—touched by the water have all their past heavy karmas purified, and they get reborn in a higher realm. They will always be around buddhas and bodhisattvas until they achieve full enlightenment.

So, go as many times as you can to the beach and go into the water so that the water touches your body. This will definitely purify numberless sentient beings, the biggest ones like mountains and the smallest ones you can see only through a microscope. As much as you go inside the water—even half your body or half of half your body—of the ocean or lake or river (if you think of how the lake or river then finally goes into the ocean,) you benefit numberless sentient beings.

BLESSING WATER WITH MANIS

Fill one, two or three big containers with water. Every day when you recite the mantras, after every thousand blow over the water two, three, four or five times. It’s OK even if you only bless the water one time after one thousand mantras.

After two, three, five or seven days or even longer, throw the blessed water in the water of a river, lake or ocean. Even if you put the water in after one or two weeks or even more, it is OK. It depends on what is convenient for you.

Or, as it is blessed water, you can give it to anyone with cancer who would like to drink it for healing and purification. They need to drink it five or six times a day, starting from the early morning up to nighttime before they go to bed.