High Blood Pressure

High Blood Pressure

Date of Advice:
February 2017
Date Posted:
April 2024

A student wrote to Rinpoche for advice about her husband’s high blood pressure. Rinpoche advised that it would be best for him to do tonglen.

My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Regarding my own experience of high blood pressure, there is one student who had very high blood pressure, so when he was in Nepal, he asked me what to do. I gave him the meditation practice of tonglen—taking other sentient beings’ sufferings and the causes, delusion and karma, and giving one’s merits, the happiness up to enlightenment, to other sentient beings. He did the meditation and every time he did it, his blood pressure went down. Whenever he did it, maybe for half an hour, his blood pressure always went down.

So that’s proof. Also, it came out in my observation for your husband, that it’s best to do tonglen.

One Nepalese lady in the USA had high blood pressure so she went to the doctor and took many medicines. I told her to do tonglen practice and gave her some blessed pills. Then her blood pressure went down, but I haven’t met with her for a long time now.

So please ask your husband read my advice on tonglen and do the practice.

I checked and he should drink mantra water. I will make it for him. He should sip it several times a day, two or three times each day. When he drinks it, he should first generate bodhicitta motivation and while drinking it he should visualize Thousand-arm Chenrezig or the Buddha powerfully blessing him.

Visualize the water as completely blessed energy purifying all the four things: negative karma, disease, spirit harm and obscurations. He should feel that his body is totally filled with blissful purifying energy. He should concentrate on that, and at the end, make strong dedications.

He also needs to wear two protections—Hayagriva protection and Namgyalma protection. I will post these to you. He should take them off when showering, so they don't get wet, and also when sleeping, he can just put them beside the bed.

He needs to have the great mantra sung chen recited 300 times.

So please try this and please try to live your life as much as possible in bodhicitta, day and night and in everything that you do.

I am attaching my morning motivation, How to Make My Lives Wish-fulfilling: The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness. It would be very good if both of you did this every day.

With much love and prayers ...