Unable to Prostrate

Unable to Prostrate

Date of Advice:
May 2014
Date Posted:
December 2014

A student had received life practices from Rinpoche, including prostrations to the Thirty-five Buddhas. After having a knee operation she was not allowed to kneel. She asked if she could recite the buddhas’ names and prostrate with her arms. Rinpoche gave the following advice.

Dear Katrina,
Yes, that is OK. Visualize your body as numberless [bodies] and large like the mountain, in the aspect of Chenrezig, and filling the whole space. With your hands in the mudra of prostration, then recite the Thirty-five Buddhas’ names. However many bodies you visualize, if they cover the whole earth, then you get unbelievable, unbelievable benefit.