Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Health :
Stomach and Digestive Problems
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Stomach and Digestive Problems
| Chronic Stomach Problems | |
| A young student had persistent stomach problems. She often vomited and was in intense pain, and had been admitted to hospital many times. The doctors were unable to find a cause or a way to treat the illness. | |
This is my advice. You need to have the following pujas done:
- Sher Nyi Do Dok puja
- Naga Incense puja—make sure it is on the correct date.
These are the Tibetan medicines to take:
- Kyungna: two a day for three months
- Chung Nga: four a day for seven days
- Precious pills: take one after the other and make sure to always have two days’ break between taking the pills
- Rinchen Rilnag: four a week for two weeks
- Moon Crystal: three a week for seven weeks
| Diarrhea and Losing Weight | |
| Rinpoche received a letter from a man who had been suffering from diarrhea for about eight months and was losing a lot of weight. The student asked Rinpoche for advice and practices. | |
My very dear Alan,
I checked regarding your health situation and this is what came out for you. The following practices need to be done quite quickly.
1) You need to take a longlife initiation.
2) Chagsum Puja. See if the geshe in Auckland can do it for you. I will also try to do it.
3) Mamo Trukung. I will do this puja for you.
4) Six-arm Mahakala protector puja. This puja needs to be done by the Lama Gyupa at Tushita called Thubten Dorje. Email the director at Tushita and request him to do it, and maybe make a small offering for it. You can say that I recommended this for you and ask if he can do the puja as quickly as possible. Make sure he has your name so he can dedicate it for you.
5) Recite the 13 Chakra mantra every day. Recite six malas a day of the mantra every day until you get completely better.
6) It comes out for you to take the Tibetan medicine Gurkhung. Take five a day for seven days.
7) You need to have 45 long life tsa-tsas made (the same number as your age). If you know someone who can make them for you, ask him or her to do them. Otherwise, request Nalanda Monastery in France to make them. You should make a small offering for the materials and also for the time of the monk who makes them. If there is someone in New Zealand who can make them for you, this is also fine, or you can make them.
8) Recite Black Manjrushri mantra every day.
9) Recite one Padmasambhava prayer called Quickly Achieving Wishes or Sampa.
10) Nyur Drubma. Recite eight or ten a day for eleven days.
Please try these things. I and the Sangha at my house are also making prayers for you. Thank you so much for your kind service to the center, to me, to all sentient beings and to the teachings of the Dharma. Please continue living your life with the good heart, the thought of benefiting others. This is the best way to live your life.
With much love and prayers...
| Mantra and Practice for Digestion | |
| Rinpoche recommended the following mantra and practice for people with problems with sickness and indigestion. | |
“I prostrate to the three rare sublime ones.
CHOM DÄN DÄ DE ZHIN SHEG PA DRA CHOM PA YANG DAG PAR DZOG PÄI SANG GYÄ SEG SOL GYÄL PO CHHAG TSHÄL LO
“I prostrate to the destroyer qualified gone beyond one, gone as it is, having destroyed the enemy, perfectly completed Buddha (awakened realized one) victorious one burning taking light.
TADYATHA HURE HUTE HUTA GARHANI SVAHA "
Recite this on your hand and then massage your belly with your hand. This purifies sickness and indigestion.
This method was given by Buddha to benefit sentient beings, to pacify their sufferings, and to fulfill their wishes for happiness. This mantra is from the sungdu in the Kangyur—the translated, direct teachings of the Buddha.
| Diarrhea | |
| Rinpoche related some advice a student had given him regarding diarrhea. | |
A student told me that diarrhea stops immediately if you drink the juice of canned pineapple and eat pineapple.
| Stomach Illness | |
| A humble young student was very sick with a serious condition involving a swelling in her stomach. Rinpoche wrote the following letter to her. | |
My very dear Kelly,
I checked and it would be very good for you to recite theDiamond Cutter Sutra 30 times as soon as possible. This would be very beneficial for your health.
You may not think that you are very important, and also your mother may not think that she is very important, but you are both very important in the world because of your intelligence and dedication, but mostly because of your devotion. Without doubt, this is the foundation of the path to enlightenment, the basis of bringing all sentient beings out of suffering and to the highest enlightenment. Along with Dharma education, you can bring so much benefit to the world. Your mind is full of potential. With blessings and devotion, you can liberate countless ants and mosquitoes, and you can gain realizations on the path. The reason why?—devotion. Devotion is like the fuel that runs a car; devotion is like electricity, which allows so many people to do so many things, like having lights in the city. So many things happen due to electricity. Devotion is like the fuel for airplanes. Think about these things. Your life is very precious, and for this reason you should have a long and healthy life to benefit others.
Are you doing the practice “giving pieces to the torma”? This practice purifies pollution that comes from selling the Dharma. It seems there is some connection with past actions like this, because this is the specific reason for this puja/practice.
When I come to your city, I can give the lung to you and to all the sentient beings living inside your body. All those sentient beings are not labeled Kelly. All those sentient beings in the future could be your disciples.
With much love and prayers...
| Chronic Ulcers | |
| A student who suffered from chronic ulcers wrote to Rinpoche asking for advice as to which practices to do. | |
My very dear Charles,
Thank you for your kind letter. I am sorry for the many eons’ delay.
According to my observations, this is what you should do for your health:
1) Every day perform Medicine Buddha practice.
2) Have four Naga Pujas performed. The geshe at your Dharma center can do these for you.
3) Perform prostrations to the 35 Buddhas, reciting the 35 Buddhas’ names as you prostrate.
Then, according to my observations, it would be very good for you to be treated by a Tibetan doctor. I will give you his details. It is also good for you to continue taking the Tibetan medicine that you are taking now. Also, these additional Tibetan medicines would be beneficial:
1) Moon Crystal: take four a week for nine weeks, with a day’s break between pills, so take one every second day.
2) Kurkyen: take three times a day for two weeks.
Please practice tong-len. Use your sickness to develop bodhicitta, to achieve enlightenment, and to be able to enlighten all sentient beings.
A Rinpoche I know took the aspect of having cancer recently. He had all the chemotherapy treatment, but when I saw him recently he said that even though he had all the treatments, the ultimate one, the one that had such a miraculous result was tong-len. This Rinpoche has the aspect of old age, and usually it would be very difficult to recover as well as he has. He said the heart practice is tong-len.
With much love and prayers...
