My most dear, most precious, most kind, wish-fulfilling one,
As you know, most or all diseases are related to spirit harm, which is something Western doctors don’t accept. To cure this, there are pujas without medicine and pujas with medicine, and there is medicine without pujas. For you, pujas have been done; I have done them and I am doing prayers, so slowly this condition will get better.
Anyway, rejoice. Think that this small sickness finishes the heavy negative karmas collected since beginningless rebirths, and in the future there will be happiness, like the sun shining in the world. Rejoice in your building the center. Eons of negative karma are purified by doing that.
The good news is that the self-cherishing thought that you have been following from beginningless rebirths, which created the negative karma and which harms you, is now being harmed or destroyed.
Without Dharma practice, without bodhicitta, the self-cherishing will continuously harm you. This harm to self is like a tiny atom of a building, unnoticeable. From beginningless rebirths we have harmed numberless sentient beings in numberless realms, causing them suffering up to now and in the future. This is the most frightening thing, the real enemy.
This is exactly what is needed to destroy the self-cherishing and the ignorance holding the I [as truly existing]. This is exactly what is needed to destroy the enemy. It is the best, so good. Without self-cherishing there’s bodhicitta, then enlightenment for oneself and for every sentient being. There is temporal and ultimate benefit.
Without ignorance, karma and delusion and the seeds of these are destroyed, then we become free from samsara, then it’s incredible how we can benefit sentient beings. Our obscurations are destroyed by the wisdom realizing emptiness, not by bodhicitta. So we need to have the realization of emptiness.
Generally, those causing harm to our life are the 424 diseases, the 360 types of spirit harm (Tib: don), and 1,080 interferers. Then, of course, there are 84,000 delusions, the inner harmers. Until we are free from samsara it is like this.
Until we are free of karma and delusion, it is like this, so we need to become free from samsara. Therefore, we need places like Nalanda Monastery, we need to practice the higher training of morality, the higher training of concentration and the higher training of wisdom. So, people at the monastery need to help each other do this.
This is what sentient beings need to practice. This is how to get out of samsara and of course, how to get enlightened. Thank you very much!
With much love and prayers ...
