Seriously Ill With Cancer

Seriously Ill With Cancer

Date Posted:
September 2009

A student whose husband was seriously ill with cancer wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice as to which practices to do.

1. 500 animal liberation practices

2. Take two Hayagriva pills (from Lama Yeshe). We can send these to you if you send us your postal address.

3. Take Gur Khyung three times a day for two weeks. (We can send this if you send us your postal address.)

4. Ask the Bati Khamtsen to do Gyabshi puja three times. Let me know if you need help organizing this, otherwise the geshe you know can do it.

5. Wear Hayagriva protection. We can send this, unless the geshe has it.

6. Ask the geshe to do Kago for him and to make ngag chu (water blessed with mantras) for him to drink.

7. Recite Black Manjushri mantra (mostly) and some Migtsema mantras.

8. Recite Heruka root mantra ten times.

9. Ask the geshe to do naga incense puja on the correct naga days in the calendar.

10. There is a prayer for the family members to recite for him called key ga na chi dug gnal dhog pa (reversing the suffering of birth, aging, sickness, and death). This may not have been translated, so maybe you can request the geshe to translate it if he is able to, and we can get a copy.

11. Do Medicine Buddha puja regularly and recite the long Medicine Buddha mantra. Also ask the geshe and the nuns to do this. Attached is very short version, where you visualize the seven Medicine Buddhas above your husband’s head, then recite the short mantra a few times, and then mostly the long mantra. There is also a link in this version to where you can get the correct version of the puja.

I have been doing many prayers and also pujas for him.

Also, he should take seven mani pills for five weeks. If no one has them near you, we can send them. Please let us know if you need them.

Take Hayagriva pills. We will send some from Lama Yeshe and some are from me. There are ten, so take two each week, space them out.

Ask Tsamlo Khamtsen in Sera Je to recite the Diamond Cutter Sutra 60 times, for his quickest recovery.

Also, ask Tsamlo Khamtsen to do Naga Torma (Lu Tor) and to continue until he hopefully recovers. They should do this on the naga days.