- He should receive ga gön from another lama.
- His father, mother and brother should read the Vajra Cutter Sutra one time each.
Protection from Spirit Harm
Protection from Spirit Harm
Date of Advice:
June 2022
Date Posted:
June 2022
This advice was for a student showing indications of spirit harm.
Date of Advice:
October 2017
Date Posted:
March 2022
Rinpoche recommended these practices for a student who was experiencing naga harm.
The first practice is Vajra Armor. Think Padmasambhava manifests as Vajra Armor, and while you recite the mantra, request to purify all the disease, negative karmas, spirit harm and obscurations collected since beginningless rebirth.
[Make requests] to actualize bodhicitta without delay and to achieve the ultimate wisdom realizing emptiness, the essence that ceases the root of samsara. Pray to actualize the whole path to enlightenment as quickly as possible for sentient beings.
Then Padmasambhava sends white beams, loving kindness and compassion to you so that all the sickness is purified, as well as what I mentioned before (sickness, spirit harm, negative karma and defilements from beginningless rebirths) and all realizations up to enlightenment are actualized. Then recite the mantra.
The next practice is multicolored Garuda. Recite the mantra with the same visualization. Padmasambhava manifests as multicolored Garuda and emits white beams purifying the four things, including naga harm, and you receive all the realizations. Then recite the mantra twenty or thirty times.
Start both practices with refuge and bodhicitta.
Motivate not just for your own happiness but for numberless sentient beings. You are doing this practice in order to free them from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to ultimate happiness, enlightenment. Then start the practice and at the end, dedicate the merits.
[You can find links to these practices in the FPMT Catalogue.]
Date of Advice:
October 2013
Date Posted:
November 2020
Rinpoche advised that when there is spirit harm or black magic harm, if Rinpoche is not able to check directly, then these practices can always be done.
- Lion-faced Dakini sadhana
- Sel Cher (This is a Tibetan text that has to be recited)
- The Dharani of Glorious Vajra Claws (Dorje Dermo)
- Drugchuma protector puja
Date of Advice:
January 2017
Date Posted:
February 2019
A student was unable to control physical energies that had been activated and they felt that other people or entities could access and "play" with their body at any time. The student was also experiencing disturbing thoughts, images and speech.
Please try these things:
1. You should wear Liberating from Bondage of Body, Speech and Mind and also one other protection amulet.
2. You need the Prajnaparamita (three versions: small, middle and large) to be recited for you by Sera Je Monastery.
3. The puja liberating from naga and landlord harm needs to be done for you.
4. Recite Tendrel Nyesel [a short prayer to Padmasambhava] 200 times
With much love and prayers ...
Date of Advice:
April 2016
Date Posted:
January 2019
A student wrote that there could be spirit harm in their house. They would like to check whether the problem is connected to the house, or to the individuals living in the house.
Dear ones,
This is what will happen:
- Rinpoche is going to do lu [puja]
- Rinpoche asked all the Sangha to do Barche Lamsel (The Supplication to Guru Rinpoche Clearing the Obstacles on the Path)
- Rinpoche is asking all the people attending the initiation to recite the Sutra of Golden Light twice
- Rinpoche asked a nun to recite the Mantra Promised by Mother Tara twice
- A monk to recite the Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life a few times in your house
- Another monk to recite the Diamond Cutter Sutra a few times in your house
Date of Advice:
January 2016
Date Posted:
November 2018
A student wrote that their child had recently passed away before birth (in the womb). The student was able to communicate with a being and thought it was the child. The communication was like a teaching—always helpful, compassionate and wise, and was a reminder to forgive and to practice Dharma.
My most dear, most kind, most precious wish-fulfilling one,
You don’t have to take refuge [in that] like you do in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha; it doesn’t have to be like that. You can ask questions and you can talk about Dharma, the same as you would to a friend or to other sentient beings. But whether the answer is correct or not, it depends, so you have to check up and use your wisdom. If it always comes out correct, then it’s OK.
There can be positive and negative. It can be positive due to your merits, your purified mind—maybe it is a buddha or a dakini speaking through that, through the picture. Or maybe it’s a spirit which may be harming you. If you follow that [spirit], if you trust that, then it can harm you, so first you have to check if the answers are always correct or not.
There are many statues in Tibet and Nepal that are great holy beings and a very devoted person with a lot of good luck receives guidance or an answer.
So please check up.
With much love and prayers ...
