My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much for your kind letter. I was very happy to receive it. One practice for you to do every day is the daily motivation, How to Make My Lives Wish-fulfilling: The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness. This also has the blessing of the speech and daily mantras.
Please look for and read about the incredible benefits of reciting OM MANI PADME HUM in Teachings from the Mani Retreat. It is incredibly good, unbelievably good for you to recite the six-syllable mantra OM MANI PADME HUM. This mantra is an unbelievably powerful way to purify all the negative karmas collected from beginningless rebirths and to collect extensive merits.
For example, by reciting OM MANI PADME HUM with bodhicitta, we collect more than skies of merit. Just reciting the mantra alone, we collect merit more than the number of drops of water in all the oceans, more than the number of sand grains in all the oceans and more than the number of blades of grass on all the earth. It is just generally like that, then if we recite the mantra with bodhicitta we collect more than skies of merit. It is such a quick way to develop compassion for all sentient beings, so that causes us to achieve enlightenment, and it is so easy to go pure land.
From beginningless rebirths we have died working so hard for our own happiness and we have done this numberless times, but we are still in samsara and not free. We have died and been to the lower realms numberless times and we are still suffering in samsara. It is very rare that we have ever died for the holy Dharma, so even if we die while reciting OM MANI PADME HUM, that would be the best way to die. If we die with that, then definitely we would go to the pure land or go to enlightenment. So please recite the mantra as much as you can.
You need to practice guru devotion on the basis of renunciation, bodhicitta and right view.
If you can, recite your main deity’s lamrim prayer, which is usually at the end of the long sadhana. The prayer goes through the stages of the path, as well as tantra, so if you can read the prayer every day it leaves positive imprints and helps you achieve enlightenment quickly. Even if you don’t understand it, that doesn’t matter. Later, as you practice the deity, read the commentary or receive the commentary so you can understand more.
You are most welcome to buddhahood, in order to free all sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to buddhahood. This is why I am giving you the life practices [not included here], which might also help your health generally.
Specifically for your health, if you can, recite Most Secret Hayagriva mantra. Visualize the deity in front of you or if you have received the initiation, you can arise as the deity. As you recite the mantra, think you have purified all negative karma, obscurations, spirit harm and all sickness and disease.
Please remember what makes your life most meaningful is meditation on the lamrim, and to live your life with bodhicitta motivation. This is the best.
With much love and prayers ...