Various Cancers

Various Cancers

Most Secret Hayagriva Mantra for Prostate Cancer
Date of Advice:
July 2018
Date Posted:
November 2023

Rinpoche advised a student with prostate cancer to do Most Secret Hayagriva practice every day.

Dear one,
Rinpoche read your emails and checked extensively for you. What came out best for your health at this time is for you to do the practice of Most Secret Hayagriva, reciting the mantra every day with concentration. You need to recite four malas of the mantra each day.

I assume you have not received the initiation. This means you can’t arise as the deity, but just have the deity absorb into you.

This is the meditation:

First generate the motivation for doing the practice, that you are doing this for the benefit of all beings.

Then think Most Secret Hayagriva is paying attention to you, with lots of compassion for you and for all sentient beings. Most Secret Hayagriva sends light, which goes through you and also goes to all beings, like a dark room that is lit up. The light dispels all the sickness, especially your cancer, disease and spirit harm, and also from where these come—all the negative karma and defilements.

Recite four malas per day of the mantra:

HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT

At the end, think you are totally purified, then the deity absorbs into you and you receive all the qualities. Think you and all sentient beings are totally healed.

Then dedicate the merit. You can use any of Rinpoche’s dedication prayers, just one or two or whatever you wish.

I am attaching a picture of the deity for you to look at when you recite the mantra. You can print this and frame it. It should not be on display for everyone to see; it’s better to keep it hidden and then open a curtain to look at it when you do the practice.

This was Rinpoche’s advice to you. He has also been doing prayers for you and will continue to do so. The Sangha at Rinpoche’s house are also praying for you.

Leukemia
Date of Advice:
January 2017
Date Posted:
October 2023

A student who was in hospital with leukemia asked Rinpoche for health advice.

  • Gyab shi puja: to be done twice for you by the Lama Gyupas in Dharamsala.
  • Jampel Tsenjö [Chanting the Names of Manjushri]: the Kopan Lama Gyupas need to recite this five times for you. Ask them to pray for you to immediately be healthy for sentient beings and to have a meaningful life, to actualize bodhicitta and quickly achieve enlightenment for sentient beings. This is what they are to pray for when they read this for you.
Tongue Cancer
Date of Advice:
May 2014
Date Posted:
September 2023

A student had been diagnosed with cancer at the base of their tongue and was undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment. The student asked if Rinpoche could recommend prayers and mantras which would be beneficial at that time.

My very dear one,
I am sorry for the delay in replying to your email. I checked and these practices need to be done.

  • Namgyal Tsechog (Namgyal long-life puja) needs to be done by the Kopan Lama Gyupas.
  • Recite Most Secret Hayagriva mantra. You can look at a photo while you recite the mantra. Recite some every day if you can.
  • You need to wear White Umbrella protection and the ten wrathful deities protection.
  • Take blessed water of Hayagriva and Vajra Armor. [Find links to the mantras here.] You can recite the mantras and blow over a jar of water and then drink it four times each day: early morning and mid-morning, and then drink it a few times at 3pm and again at night-time before going to bed. You can do this every day. Recite the mantras and then blow over the water. Then visualize nectar beams coming from the deity to purify your negative karma, sickness, disease and spirit harm. Think you are totally purified as you drink the water.
  • I will recite the White Umbrella Deity for you four times.
  • You need Zungdu text to be read for you. It comes out best if Ven. Steve and Ven. Samten at Land of Medicine Buddha do this for you.

This is my advice for you.

With much love and prayers ...

Skin Cancer
Date of Advice:
March 2019
Date Posted:
April 2023

A student had skin cancer on their face that had spread under the skin and asked Rinpoche for any specific practices that could help prevent further spread. Rinpoche checked and advised the following.

You need to read the Golden Light Sutra five times, with strong bodhicitta.

Also do strong purification with Chenrezig. Visualize beams purifying all the four things—negative karma, defilements, sickness and spirit harm—and the cancer. You need to do a minimum of four malas a day of the Chenrezig mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM. 

Recite one mala of Vajra Armor mantra each day. Continue this until you get better.

[Please note: Advice posted on the LYWA website is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment from a doctor or health care professional. If you have health concerns, do not disregard medical advice or delay seeking it.]

Pujas for Multiple Myeloma
Date of Advice:
January 2015
Date Posted:
January 2023

Rinpoche advised these practices for a student with multiple myeloma, a type of bone marrow cancer.

My most dear, most kind, most precious one,
I checked regarding your health and you need to recite one mala of Hayagriva mantra. If you have received the initiation then you can do the sadhana, generating yourself into Hayagriva deity and then reciting the mantra. You can do this with sadhana if you want to; otherwise generate into the deity and recite the mantra. Visualize Hayagriva in front of you, whether you have received the initiation or not, then red beams are emitted and you receive all Hayagriva’s blessing qualities—all the omniscient power and compassion for every sentient being. [You receive] great compassion and then perfect power is received. Then all the sickness and spirit harms are dispelled.

These pujas need to be done:

  • She nyin dü dog puja: to be done by the Kopan Lama Gyupas. If you email Kopan to arrange this, they need to do it effectively for you. Say to them that this came in Rinpoche’s observation. Rinpoche is suggesting this to be done for your quick recovery and for your life to be most beneficial to all sentient beings, in all the lifetimes and for you never to be reborn in the lower realms.
  • Chag sum puja: To be done by the Kopan Lama Gyupas.
  • Lü tor (naga torma): To be done twice by Shekar Monastery. Explain the disease [and request the dedication for you] to immediately recover from this cancer and to have a most meaningful life that is most beneficial for all the sentient beings and to never be reborn in the lower realms. You are the main person, then second are all the sentient beings who need the puja.
  • Drugchuma pujas [torma offerings to Kalarupa and Yamantaka to eliminate obstacles]: To be done nineteen times. It comes out best for Samtenling, the Gelug Monastery near Boudhanath, to do these nineteen drugchuma pujas.

Also:

  • Wear the protection, Liberating from Bondage.
  • Sponsor the reading of the Kangyur by Chhabre [?] Khangtsen at Sera Je Monastery. Ask how much it will cost first.
  • Mani Rilbu [precious pills]: Take two pills every day for one month.

This is my advice at this time. I am also making prayers for you.

With much love and prayers ...

Rectal Cancer
Date of Advice:
January 2019
Date Posted:
November 2022

This practice advice was given to a student who had cancer of the rectum.

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

There is a method, which is to have butter blessed with mantra by a good practitioner. This could be a layperson or a monk. Then put the butter inside [your body] where the cancer is, if this is possible. Do that a few times a day. Depending on where you are based, I can check if there are any lamas around who can do this.

Actually, you can do it yourself also. So you can recite some malas of OM MANI PADME HUM every day—you have ten spoons of butter and after each mala blow on the butter or even spit on it, but you have to visualize yourself as Chenrezig if you have received that initiation. If you haven’t received that initiation, then visualize Chenrezig at your heart.

If you have received teachings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, then think Chenrezig is His Holiness the Dalai Lama, your guru, and think the butter is being blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama/Chenrezig, then apply the butter two or three times a day.

Begin by generating bodhicitta motivation. Visualize the butter as completely blessed energy purifying all the four things: negative karma, disease, spirit harm and obscurations. You should feel that your body is totally filled with blissful purifying energy. Concentrate on that and at the end make strong dedications

You need to read the Arya Sanghata Sutra five times and the Golden Light Sutra four times.

Also, recite the Most Secret Hayagriva mantra. If you have the short meditation, you can do that with the mantra. You cannot arise as the deity unless you have already received the initiation; instead you visualize the deity above your crown. First it is most important to have bodhicitta motivation.

To have surgery for the cancer came out best. In regards to what you can do, try some meditation on emptiness. This is the best thing you can do. You can find the four vital points of analysis in Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand.

Meditate on how you are empty and how the cancer is empty, so use different techniques.

Also do strong meditation on bodhicitta. Please try this. I am also making prayers for you.

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