My most dear, most precious, most kind, wish-fulfilling one,

According to my observation, I will recite the Diamond Cutter Sutra for you twice. I generally do this with the aim of trying to generate bodhicitta. I do it for all sentient beings, those who I saw, who rely on me, whose name is given to me, those who need the Diamond Cutter Sutra.

If you are able to come to Nepal, there’s a lake and there’s a naga statue lying down. Maybe it’s naturally arisen, but I don’t know the story. Many people have had that disease, for example, my uncle had that disease. He scratched all over his body, even blood was coming, like that, so he was taken care of by my brother’s wife and another relative, a lady. He’s a monk and they had to wash his body and put medicine on [his skin], so he felt very shy having a naked body.

So he went to that lake and did a puja, Lü tor (Tib: ཀླུ་གཏོར), giving food to the nagas. There’s a puja for the nagas, giving food and giving Dharma teachings to the nagas, and then they help. So he offered Lü tor, for how long, maybe six months, I’m not sure. Two girls took care of him. Also another thing is Indian medicine. Pujas and Indian medicine. Anyway, he recovered and went back to the mountains.

He’s there [at Lawudo] where there’s my past life’s cave, a rock cave that Padmasambhava came into. I don’t remember, but many high lamas said that it’s my past life place. He lives there now, and he got better; he completely got better. So this is what I want to tell you about.

There’s no cure in the Western hospitals, no cure at all. The Chinese sometimes have a cure. One lady had this disease and a Chinese doctor in England helped. She recovered, but it came back after one year.

I did the puja for one rich Indian family in Hong Kong. The lady had that disease and at the airport I did the puja, but I never heard back. I didn’t get any reply back to say if it helped her.

There was also a Tibet lama, a geshe, who was sick for a long time, a long, long time, for many years. Whenever he went to India he got better and when he went back to Holland he got worse. It was always like that, strange. He did a lot of retreat and pujas for many years, then he met one black man and he recovered. So it’s a very interesting story.

These [conditions] are caused by nagas, so there are naga pujas. There’s a puja for you called Liberating from the Harm of the Nagas and Landlord. The landlord is not a human being, but rather the owner of the land, so you definitely need that puja.

This is the name of the puja in Tibetan. [See image for Tibetan script]

Depending on where you are, there are lamas in some of the countries where we have centers, so maybe they can help. Otherwise you have to come to India and Nepal for the puja to be done. Maybe if you’re in Nepal my brother’s wife could help, just as they helped my uncle.

Generally, there’s a practice, not only for healing, it is for disease, for all the suffering of disease. There are many different sufferings—oceans of suffering of the hells, oceans of suffering of the hungry ghosts, oceans of suffering of the animals, oceans of suffering of the humans, oceans of suffering of the suras and oceans of suffering of the asura realms—not only disease. It all came from delusion and karma, so we need to purify the cause, delusion and karma.

Reciting the Compassionate Buddha’s mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM, is incredible. It has limitless skies of benefit, unbelievable, so we are fortunate to recite that.

It is said in the Eleven-face Compassionate Buddha’s text that if we recite OM MANI PADME HUM one time, it has the power to purify having killed. For example, a fully ordained monk who has broken the four root vows of killing a human being, stealing valuable things belonging to others, sexual misconduct and lying that we have realizations while we don’t have that—these get completely purified. By reciting OM MANI PADME HUM one time the karma is completely purified.

Then by reciting the mantra seven times, one hundred eons of negative karma get purified. Reciting it twenty-one times, one thousand eons get purified and by reciting one mala—108 mantras—forty thousand eons of negative karma get purified. It’s unbelievable.

Even without bodhicitta motivation—[wishing] to achieve enlightenment in order to liberate the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of suffering and bring them to enlightenment—even without that, by reciting OM MANI PADME HUM, we collect merit more than the drops of water in the ocean, more than the number of blades of grass that grow in the universe, on the mountains and the ground, and more than the number of sand grains of the Pacific Ocean. It’s amazing, amazing, unbelievable, great purification. It purifies negative karma from where all the suffering, all the problems, arise, like that, and we collect unbelievable merit.

In particular, to generate compassion, to develop compassion through the mantra, that’s its special, particular quality. If we generate compassion, then we’re able to generate enlightenment quickly, to achieve the total cessation of the obscurations and the completion of realizations. Sublime compassion, if we generate that for one sentient being or numberless sentient beings.

The quicker we’re able to achieve enlightenment, full enlightenment, then we’re able to free the numberless sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bring them to enlightenment as quickly as possible. It’s most amazing.

So, if you want to listen to my advice, you must recite this mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM. I am also attaching a photo; you can print it nicely and frame it.

Then there’s Medicine Buddha. It is so powerful for success, to pray for success, as the time gets more and more degenerated. From the sutra [point of view], it becomes more and more powerful. From the point of view of tantra, then Heruka becomes more and more powerful, so like that. It’s unbelievably powerful to recite the names of the seven Medicine Buddhas and to recite the mantra.

Thank you very much, thank you so much.

I do have mantra water that dripped from the cave of Padmasambhava where he, the powerful enlightened being, achieved immortality, achieved buddhahood, achieved Buddha Amitayus, the infinite light Buddha. [This cave is] in Nepal, and we are building a three-story Padmasambhava statue there. We’ve started this. [Read more here about Maratika and Rinpoche’s vision for the statue.]

So with this water, little by little, you can put it on your skin.

With much love and prayers ...