Various Illnesses

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
I checked regarding your health and you need these pujas:

1. Chanting the Names of Manjushri [Tib: Phag pa jam päl gyi tshän yang dag par jö pa] needs to be recited 1,100 times by the Kopan Lama Gyupas. This seems important to do.

2. Guhyasamaja root text needs to be recited 500 times by the Kopan elder monks.

When you contact Kopan Monastery to make the request, explain your illness and say I am requesting they dedicate like this:

For you to immediately recover from this disease and for your life to be most meaningful for numberless sentient beings, by actualizing bodhicitta. And for you never to be reborn in the lower realms again, but to be born in the pure land where you can be enlightened, or at least to achieve a perfect human rebirth, meet a perfectly qualified Mahayana guru—who reveals the Mahayana path to enlightenment—and by pleasing the virtuous friend, achieve enlightenment quickly.

3. The puja she nyin dü dog needs to be done at Osel Labrang, Sera Je Monastery, India.

4. You should recite OM MANI PADME HUM with the motivation of bodhicitta for numberless sentient beings, not only for your own sickness.

Please try this and as much as possible live your life with the thought of bodhicitta day and night, and in every activity you do.

With much love and prayers ...

Rinpoche’s advice: Take some jüng nga [five elements] pills.

Student’s response:  All news is good. My platelet count rose from 19 to 45. This is a considerable rise and I am out of danger.

[Note: Rinpoche asked to keep track of advice he has given about health problems where feedback has been received that the advice helped or cured the condition.]

My very dear precious one, most kind one, most dear one, wish-fulfilling one,
How are you? I hope you are well. I am sorry your arm is broken; I will pray for you.

Breaking your arm is to remind you of the shortcomings of being in samsara—it is exactly like a teaching that you must be free from samsara, liberated from samsara. It is another form of teaching. It is like the guru explaining suffering and reminding you of the suffering of samsara.

It is said in the Kadampa teachings [by Geshe Kharag Gomchung] that:

Bad conditions are the guru explaining the nature of samsara and how you need to be free. 
The obstacles are persuading you to create virtue. 
Sicknesses and spirit possession are the broom cleaning away negative karma.
Suffering is the manifestation of emptiness.

Thank you very much. Take care of your life with bodhicitta, to make it the most beneficial for sentient beings. Even if you have only an hour to live or one day to live, make it the most beneficial for sentient beings.

Thank you very much, I hope to see you soon.

With much love and prayers...

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
I received your letter and checked regarding your question. If you can:

• Take Hayagriva torma initiation
• Recite Padmasambhava prayer for quick success two or three times every day
• Recite Vajra Armor mantra: one mala a day

Do these practices with bodhicitta, to free the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to enlightenment. Think, “For that reason I must achieve full enlightenment, therefore I am going to practice.”

Also:

• Take three mani pills a day for nine days.
• Ratna-samphel pills: nine pills. You can’t expose the pills to the sun and that is why they are covered in cloth. When you take them, cut the cloth and put the whole pill in your mouth and then pull out the cloth. Take four days’ break between taking the pills.

So please try these.

With much love and prayers...

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much for your kind letter. I checked and you need some pujas done:

• Kago: you need to be present for this puja, so you can request Geshe-la to do it.
• She-nyin dü-dog: this puja needs to be done by a monastery in Nepal. Ask the director of Kopan Nunnery to request the puja from that monastery. There will be a cost.
• You need the increasing and controlling fire puja done.
• Offer whitewash paint and umbrella to Boudhanath Stupa. Offering the canopy and painting the stupa white is an unbelievable way to collect merit and purify negative karma.

Also, take these precious pills:

• Ratna samphel: take two each week, a few days apart. Altogether, have eleven pills.
• Inner offering pills: take four pills every day for five weeks.
• Mani pills: six pills a day. Take three each morning and three each evening, for eight days.

I am also making prayers for you. Please continue to make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta day and night and in all actions you do.

With much love and prayers...

Regarding the questions you asked about your teeth problems, the puja which came out was mamo trü kang, to be done by the Kopan Lama Gyupas. This puja is very beneficial and very important.

[One of my attendants] should do jung shi torma [Tib: འབྱུང་བ་བཞི] composed by Padampa Sangye. She is going to do this for you.

The Kopan nuns should read the Diamond Cutter Sutra twice for you. So the sutra can be read for you by a billion nuns, by all the nuns in the world or just a few nuns. Elder nuns can do it—maybe six or three nuns. They can recite the sutra twice for you. If all the nuns in the world read it, then you have to make a big offering, maybe you need to sell your body, speech and mind to one of the Sherpas.

Greetings and prayers from the cows and calves at Lawudo for you.