Practices for HIV and AIDS

Practices for HIV and AIDS

Date Posted:
September 2012

Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche for people with HIV or AIDS.

It comes out very good for anyone who is HIV positive or who has AIDS to:

These practices can even be done by people who are not Buddhist. This is just something to try. Doing these practices is an incredible purification that can purify the karma and help the disease go away.

Doing these practices purifies the mind, so that our past negative karma is purified and we collect extensive merits.

It is best is to do these practices with bodhicitta, and to do them for numberless sentient beings who have the same sickness—not only for those who are sick, but for the numberless sentient beings who are suffering in the six realms and the intermediate state.