A student’s daughter had been experiencing vertigo and dizziness for several years, but doctors could not find the cause. Rinpoche offered this advice.
Dear one,
Rinpoche did a number of observations (Tib: mo) for your daughter and said the main thing that will help your daughter is for her to practice at this time. Maybe Tibetan medicine can help, but practice is more important.
Your daughter needs to recite 300,000 migtsema mantras and do tonglen practice 500 times.
On the basis of these practices, she can take some Tibetan medicine, but she needs to do the practices for the medicine to be effective at this time.
A student with many health problems for the past five years had been diagnosed with Sjögren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease. This had resulted in chronic kidney disease and a recent episode of facial paralysis.
These are Rinpoche’s observations:
A student wrote that they had been poisoned by heavy metals and now suffered from hyperactivity, insomnia and involuntary muscle movements, followed by exhaustion.
My dear one,
Thank you very much for your kind email. According to my observation, you need to take the precious pill Ratna Samphel and to have a total of two pills.
Take the first pill in the early morning. Don’t expose the pills to light. You have to eat it in the dark or under a cloth. Put the pill in your mouth before it is exposed to light and then bite it. After three days, take the second pill.
It’s best when you take it to abstain from any black foods.
With much love and prayers ...
A thirteen-year-old student wrote that she would like to become a nun when she turned eighteen. She had cystic fibrosis and prayed every day. She asked Rinpoche what else she could do.
My most dear, most kind, most precious wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much for your kind letter, I was very happy to receive it. I am sorry it took so long to reply to you.
According to my observation it’s very good if you take the Tibetan medicine called gurchung. Take one pill a day for five days. You should also drink blessed mantra water. I will bless the water and send it to you.
You should do the Vajrapani Hayagriva Garuda practice [Meditation and Recitation of the Threefold Wrathful One], which means to recite the mantra and do meditation. You cannot arise as the deity, but do all the meditations with the deity above your head, etc.
If you still want to become a nun, then plan to do it when you are twenty years old.
The other practice that is very good for you is to visualize the refuge merit field and then with Shakyamuni Buddha visualization, recite Shakyamuni Buddha’s holy name and mantra. If you can, do three malas every day of Shakyamuni Buddha’s holy name and mantra.
Another practice to do every day is the daily motivation, How to Make My Lives Wish-Fulfilling: The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness. This also has the blessing of the speech and daily mantras.
It is very important to meditate on the lamrim every day. This is very important. You could also recite one lamrim prayer every day. Read it slowly, going over the meaning. Lamrim is what you need to actualize, no matter how long it takes. Please put your effort there.
Please try to meditate on the lamrim based on guru yoga and on this basis you will get all the realizations and the most success in your life. It is important to try to achieve all the realizations in order to actualize enlightenment. This is in order to liberate numberless sentient beings and enlighten them. That’s the real project, the real goal of our life.
You need to have the Guhyasamaja root text recited for you five times. It isn’t translated yet; we only have it in Tibetan phonetics.
Recite the Vajra Cutter Sutra seven times.
What makes your life most meaningful is meditation on the lamrim, and to live your life with bodhicitta motivation. This is the best.
With much love and prayers ...
Rinpoche gave this advice to a student who wrote about a lack of energy and weakened immune system.
Rinpoche checked and said these things important to do:
A student had been diagnosed with lupus and advanced fibromyalgia. The medication was very strong, affecting many inner organs, the nervous system and general health. Rinpoche checked and advised the following.
Take one ratna samphel precious pill, have three days’ break and then take another ratna samphel. Take four pills like this, with three days between each pill. Take the pill before breakfast and do not expose it to the light.
Take rinchen mangjor precious pill in the same way. Take four pills in total, with a three-day break between each pill. Do not take them on the same day.
Recite half a mala of the following mantra every day:
OM HRIYADHE SARWA TATHAGATA HRIDAYA GARBHE / DZOLA DHARMADHATU GARBHE / SANG HARANA AYUH SANGSHODHAYA / PAPAM SARWA TATHAGATA SAMENDRA USHNIKHA BIMALE BISHUDDHE SWAHA
You can find this mantra in The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment).
Also recite one mala each day of the Celestial Mansion Extremely Secret Sublime Success mantra.
Recite the mantras with bodhicitta, so they're not just for your healing but for all sentient beings.
Read my advice and commentary in Practicing the Five Powers Near the Time of Death. Even if you live for one hundred years, you need to do this.
[Find links to these practices in the FPMT Catalogue.]
