Well Water

Well Water

Date Posted:
April 2010

Rinpoche composed the following sign to be attached to a well that had been built for some villagers. Rinpoche also requested a Medicine Buddha statue be placed near the well, so the water would run over it, and also blessed the water in the well.

Please write the following below the Medicine Buddha statue in Hindi:

Sign for Well
This well water is mixed with holy water from Mount Kailash, so it has the continual blessing of the water from Mount Kailash. It purifies all beings, people, and animals—anyone who drinks water from this well. It is very blessed water. This is the holy water of the enlightened deity Vajrayogini. The benefit of drinking this water is that when you die you will be reborn in the deity’s pure land, where you will be liberated from all suffering and will achieve enlightenment.

Before you take water from the well, you should offer it as a bath to the Medicine Buddha. In this way, you purify negative karma and defilements, and create vast amounts of merit and causes of happiness and success. After you have offered it to the Medicine Buddha, think the water came from Buddha and put it back in the well. Then take water for yourself, your family, and others.

As the water comes from the Buddha’s holy body, drinking and washing with this water purifies the mind of the negative karma of body, speech, and mind, which is the cause of all problems, now and in the future. It also becomes powerful healing for sickness. The most important thing is, the more faith you have in the power of the water, then the more powerful it is for healing and purification, and for survival.

It is good that anyone who drinks this water practices the good heart, to not harm others, whether human beings or animals, and to be kind to others every day. Please enjoy.

Rinpoche also made the following comments:

Also, the water over which I chanted mantras, many thousands of OM MANI PADME HUMs, was put in the well, so that means there is a continuum of blessing, so I guess it can be used. By blessing the water with mantras for healing and blessing the water source, even if there is no water from Mount Kailash, it can purify negative karma and be healing.

It would be good to have a Maitreya Buddha statue at the well for the villagers. We could put a sign: “Sponsored by Maitreya Project.” Later we can also put a Mitukpa statue there to make the nagas happy. If they get disturbed the water will dry up. The main cause for the water being there is that the people have the good karma to have the conditions to be able to drink. Also, there is a puja for the nagas when the water runs dry. People can receive blessings by washing and drinking the water from the well.

According to my observations, the best statue for the well itself was Medicine Buddha. This is also easier for people to relate to.

I recited Buddha’s auspicious prayer for healing, for all to recover from sicknesses and for all who come to drink never to be reborn in the lower realms, to find faith in the Triple Gem, and achieve enlightenment. What’s important is to have a happy mind and not give harm in this world to any living being.

This is an auspicious prayer to eliminate any negativity and for healing. I made a request to Medicine Buddha and we all made prayers that anyone who drinks the water is immediately purified of all negative karma, is never reborn in the lower realms, is free from all sicknesses and spirit harm, finds faith in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, develops loving kindness, compassion and bodhicitta, stops giving harm to all living beings and only practices kindness, bringing peace and happiness, and for everyone in this world to become like Chenrezig.