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Protection from Spirit Harm

Energies Activated in Body

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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 ...

Spirit Harm in the House

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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

 

Check Up and Use Your Wisdom

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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 ...

Practices for Naga or Spirit Harm

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This advice was given to help student who experienced naga or spirit harm.

  • Do the Guru Rinpoche practice, Nölsang Incense Ritual, fifteen times
  • Recite Guru Rinpoche’s prayer called Simultaneous Success every day
  • Mamo trü kang puja: to be done by Chuwa Monastery, Boudhanath, Nepal
  • Rinpoche will do gektor puja [torma offering to harmful spirits] five times for you
  • You need to smell the Hayagriva retreat torma pills. The pills are to be burnt and then you smell them.

Dharma is Most Precious

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A student wrote to thank Rinpoche for his advice and for a mantra for spirit harm that she had found beneficial. The student’s letter and Rinpoche’s response are below.

Student's Letter

Dear Lama Zopa Rinpoche,
I hope that these words will reach you, these words written from my heart. I thank you for your advice, so easily accessible in your many books, on your advice page and otherwise on Facebook. Lama Zopa, I have had an experience because of your advice that has freed me from the burden of spirit harm. This burden has weighed heavily upon me for many years—maybe even for many lives. I am not an expert on reincarnation and my past lives remain in darkness for me, but what has happened to me cannot be an issue of debate.

I came across your mantra for spirit harm a while ago. I knew at once that here it is, what I have been looking for, what I have needed, but until that moment it was not revealed to me. A great gift was given when I saw the mantra, began reciting it and ultimately, learned it by heart. I can say this mantra whenever I feel heavy, when tired, when stressed, and a lightness and happiness floods my body and mind. This mantra has freed me. Many thanks. Blessings for your health. Blessings and humble thanks from your ever faithful ­­­­___

 

Rinpoche's response

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much for your kind letter and thank you very much for reciting the mantra, so continue and develop your Dharma understanding. That’s very, very good.

Dharma is the most important thing, more important than your job or money. Job and money came from Dharma, came from good karma. So Dharma is the most precious one.

Please continue to make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta day and night and in everything that you do.

With much love and prayers...