Health and Business Problems

Health and Business Problems

Date Posted:
June 2011

Rinpoche gave the following advice to a student whose mother was very sick. He also gave advice regarding their business.

Dear one,
I have done more observations regarding your mother and the business.

Regarding your mother, it also comes out very good to make a Kalachakra statue, a little bigger than the life size medicine Buddha.

Regarding your business, there will be difficulties that you will have to endure. I checked and advise the following things be done in order to reduce the negativities from others towards you and the project.

  • Praises to the 21 Taras: 100,000, to be done by Tsawa Khangtsen at Sera Je Monastery
  • Recitation of Vajra Claws for 14 days: this comes out best to be done by the nunnery adjacent to Drepung Monastery
  • Recitation of the Kangyur (the complete collection of sutras by Shakyamuni Buddha): by Sera Je Monastery
  • Prayer flags of Gyaltsen Tsemoi Pungyen and Kurukulla prayer flags: to be hung on your land outside Taipei, the land you showed me that could possibly be a retreat place in the future. Hang five long prayer flags of Gyaltsen Tsemoi Pungyen and five long Kurukulla prayer flags.
  • Tara prayer flags: to be hung on the roof of your home.
  • Kurukulla prayer flags: to be hung at your home, on long poles in the garden.

I did quite a bit of checking regarding your mother, and the key thing at the moment is to have another life-size Medicine Buddha statue made. Also have six smaller Medicine Buddha statues made, approximately 12-15 inches high, and place them around the life-size Medicine Buddha statue. It is important that the artwork on the statue has a good appearance.

Also, you need to recite the Diamond Cutter Sutra 1,000 times. Recite this a few times when you can, but in my observation it is best if the 1,000 recitations are done by the monks at Nalanda Monastery and the nuns in our nunnery in Mongolia.

The nunnery in Mongolia that will do the recitations is very small and it is the first Buddhist nunnery to exist in Mongolia. I know this might sound strange, but before this there was no tradition of Mongolian nuns, only Mongolian monks. The nunnery is a very old, small temple that was offered to me. It was not destroyed when the old Soviet Union occupied the country. There are about nine or ten Mongolian nuns there.