Various Illnesses

Dear one,

• Mani pills: Take four pills each day for two weeks (i.e. twenty-eight pills).
• Pills that have been offering from Trulshik Rinpoche’s attendant: Take three pills a day for one week (i.e. twenty-one pills).
• Rinchen mang jor: Take one pill each alternative day for five weeks. This means take a pill every second day, so three in a week, (i.e. fifteen pills). When you take the pill it should not be exposed to light, so you take it in the dark. Cut the cloth off but keep it hidden, then press the pill out of the cloth and put it straight into your mouth without it being exposed to any kind of light, not even electric light. Eat in the mouth with warm water.
• White Umbrella mantra: Recite the short mantra every day. I can do an oral transmission of the short mantra by telephone. Of course, this is for enlightenment but it’s also very powerful for healing.
• It’s good if you can take White Tara great initiation. This means the full initiation.

You should dedicate your life to numberless hell beings, numberless hungry ghosts, numberless animals, numberless human beings, numberless suras, numberless asuras and numberless intermediate state beings. Dedicate your life to them. Give your life to free them from suffering and to achieve all the happiness up to enlightenment, by thinking:

By my experiencing this sickness, may all mother sentient beings be pacified from all sickness, spirit harm, negative karma and defilements immediately and may they achieve buddhahood, peerless happiness.

Recite this like a mantra, like OM MANI PADME HUM. Recite malas and malas of this, as much as possible every day, as many as possible. so do that.

Namgyalma short mantra: Recite one mala or half a mala or twenty-one mantras. This is for purification and also it can help with healing.

OM BHRUM SVAHA / OM AMRITA AYUR DADE SVAHA

Please let me know your address and I can send the different pills. Also please let me know of any that you can get yourself.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you for your kind email, I am sorry the other letter got lost and sorry it took time to reply.

In regard to nyung näs, it is very good that you are doing that. This advice is just for you; not public, but for you personally. You can do nyung näs, except just not the water part, so do everything else, but you can drink on the second day. This is private advice, for you.

It is very good if you read the Golden Light Sutra thirteen times. This is for your health, and it is a great thing to do also for world peace and for your own country, and by the way you are taken care of.

I am translating a new Medicine Buddha practice. It is not yet translated, but once it is, I will send it to you. Until it is ready, if you can, recite the Eight Medicine Buddha names and their mantras.

For you to do nyung näs, it is very good.

You should also recite one mala and fifteen extra mantras (123 mantras) of Vajra Armor mantra and then blow over a jar of water. Then each day drink the blessed water, all the time. Every day recite the mantra 123 times and blow over the water and totally believe the deity blesses the water and then with strong faith drink the water—in the early morning, one hour before lunch, after lunch, then at night time before bed, so each time drink a few spoonfuls.

The main lamrim for you to study is Essence of Refined Gold, this is a commentary to Lama Tsongkhapa’s short lamrim Hymns of Experience. If you can, read Essence of Refined Gold a few times and study it.

Every day read a lamrim prayer, Lama Tsongkhapa’s Foundation of All Good Qualities, by visualizing Lama Tsongkhapa, then recite the prayer. If you can, do Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga and then within the guru yoga it contains that prayer, but if you can’t, then just visualize Lama Tsongkhapa.

This is my advice to you. Please make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta day and night and in every action you do.

With much love and prayers ...

Next year comes out very bad for you. The following needs to be done:

• Long Life Sutra: 1,000 times, to be read by the Kopan Lama Gyupas. This should be done before the end of this year or at the beginning of next year.
• Zung du [collection of dharanis]: to be read three times.
• Gyab shi puja: to be done by Rinpoche.
• Tara puja: five times.
• White Tara long-life meditation: Do this every morning, starting now. Count the mantras: you need to do 10 x 100,000 mantras [ie one million mantras.]

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
I read your emails.

If you can, take the eight Mahayana precepts. It is very good using the opportunity for enlightenment, that is most unbelievable, most amazing. What keeps coming out is for you to take the eight Mahayana precepts again and again. You can have a break, then take them again, and also do nyung näs.

Prostrations you can do with your hands in the mudra of prostration. The main thing is to visualize as many bodies as you can doing the prostrations. However many bodies that you visualize, you will get the same amount of merit as actually doing that many prostrations, so visualize as many bodies  as possible. Think the visualized bodies fill the whole earth. Then you will get the same benefits, unbelievable, unbelievable, unbelievable merits, as though you actually had that many bodies and did that many prostrations.

Still you should not think, “I am going to live for so many years.” That concept of permanence comes even on the same day when you are dying and even five minutes before a car accident. Death can happen at any time, as you have heard so many times, therefore you need to practice, so do nyung näs as much as possible. If you are not familiar with that practice, others can help you. You can join in a group and later you can do them by yourself.

Even if you die by doing nyung näs, you won’t be reborn in the lower realms. It is most worthwhile, it is the best death, if you do with bodhicitta, first of all for sentient beings, for every sentient being—numberless hell beings, numberless hungry ghosts, numberless animals, numberless human beings, numberless sura beings and numberless asura beings.

This is my advice. Please make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta day and night and in everything that you do.

Of course, I am also praying.

With much love and prayers ...

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

Thank you very much your kind letter. I am very happy you are taking care of everything. Your husband got diabetes also, so we are the friend of diabetes, now we become the friend of diabetes.

He is so fortunate to get diabetes because it gives him the opportunity to do tonglen practice. By doing that he purifies the heaviest negative karma collected from beginningless rebirths and he is able to collect the most extensive merits, and that means this is the quickest way to achieve enlightenment.

The great Kagyu yogi Choje Gotsangpa gave this advice:

By my experiencing diabetes (it means any problem, not just diabetes)
May all the mother sentient beings (I added the word mother so in this way you feel their kindness in your heart by saying “mother”)
Be free from all the sickness, spirt harms, negative karmas and obscurations (collected from beginningless rebirths) and achieve enlightenment.

Then after that verse you can add OM MANI PADME HUM for sentient beings, so do it like this.

Then you can start over again reciting the verse and then OM MANI PADME HUM. Recite like this for a mala or more, the whole thing; it is such a good practice. Your husband can do this while he is walking, sitting or anything. You can both do this practice; it is a very good practice. Even if you go for a walk you can do this practice.

We have to know, to be mindful that because we are in samsara we have to die, we have to be reborn, we have to have sickness and old age. This is because of the suffering of pain, the suffering of change and pervasive compounding suffering. By having the third suffering [pervasive compounding suffering], then the other two sufferings arise. If you don’t have the third suffering, then you are free forever from the other two sufferings.

Therefore the main thing is renunciation, in order to be free forever from the third suffering. Even in Hinduism you can be free from the desire realm by realizing it is suffering in nature; you can be free from the form realm, which is suffering in nature, and also from the formless realm, infinite sky consciousness, nothingness. But you cannot be free from the tip of samsara, which is the highest realm in samsara. You can’t become free from that. You don’t get to see that it is in the nature of suffering, because the way of seeing that is only through comparison. Here, there is no next stage to compare it with, so you can’t realize that the tip of samsara is in the nature of suffering. So, you can’t realize that and you can never be free from that. Then, when the karma finishes, you are reborn in the desire realm, the form realm and even in the lower realms.

We are so fortunate being Buddhist, so now we have to know about the three types of suffering, including pervasive compounding suffering. The aggregates are pervaded by suffering and therefore our aggregates are under the control of suffering, pervaded by suffering. Not only that, we are under the control of the contaminated seed [of karma] and delusion. Therefore, we need to be free from the seed of delusion and karma, in this life and the future lives.

With much love and prayers ...

These pujas need to be done:

1. Drugchuma [A protector puja with torma offerings to Kalarupa and Yamantaka]: twice

2. Nolsang Incense Ritual: three times

3. Extensive Medicine Buddha puja

4. Chag sum