Strong Prayers for Mother

Strong Prayers for Mother

Date of Advice:
September 2017
Date Posted:
March 2022

A student asked Rinpoche whether they should visit their mother, who was very close to dying. Rinpoche advised these practices.

Most important is the practice you do for your mother. Do Vajrasattva practice as much as possible to purify the mother. When doing Vajrasattva practice, visualize a moon disc in your heart and on that moon disc are all sentient beings and your mother. Nectar comes to [the sentient beings], to you and also to your mother, purifying the negative karma from beginningless rebirths. It seems this is extremely beneficial and most important for you to do.

Reading the Golden Light Sutra for your mother is also very good, most beneficial. Try to read it four hundred times. Also, you can ask the monks at Kopan Monastery to do one session for your mother. You can do it and the monks can also do it. [It’s beneficial] if they finish the whole sutra, but you can also recite it, because blood generation is much more powerful. The monks can do it and then you can just continue as long as your mother is alive. If you can still gradually accomplish four hundred recitations that is very good, otherwise do whatever you can.

If you can, recite the longest Chenrezig mantra. Read that mantra five times for your mother and visualize that nectar beams come from Thousand-arm Chenrezig to your mother and purify all the defilements and negative karma collected from beginningless rebirths. First generate bodhicitta, then you can think your mother becomes Chenrezig at the end.

Make strong prayers to Chenrezig for her not to be reborn in the lower realms and to be reborn in Amitabha’s pure land, or to receive a perfect human body, meet the Mahayana teachings and meet a perfectly qualified Mahayana guru revealing the unmistaken path to enlightenment, and by pleasing most the mind of the virtuous friend she achieves enlightenment the quickest. So make strong prayers to Chenrezig like this.