Transforming Sickness

Transforming Sickness

Date of Advice:
January 2015
Date Posted:
August 2021

Rinpoche sent this letter to a student who was very sick.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling daughter,

How are you now? Try to think of this advice.

The great enlightened Tibetan lama, Panchen Losang Chökyi Gyältsen said:

[LC 96] Even if the environment and beings are filled with the fruits of negative karma,
And unwished for sufferings pour down like rain,
I seek your blessings to take these miserable conditions as a path
By seeing them as causes to exhaust the results of my negative karma.

So use the sickness for your practice by thinking in this way. This means your illness is very positive. What you need is to finish your past karma so that you don’t have to experience the suffering results [in the future].

Kadampa Geshe Kharag Gomchung advised:

By experiencing this small suffering now
It finishes my past negative karma
And there will be happiness in the future.
Therefore, be happy with these sufferings.

Then in the near future your life will be like the sun shining, with incredible happiness. Great success will happen.

With much love and prayers ...