My very dear mother,
In order to bring living beings, who are suffering intensely, to full enlightenment, the perfected state of bliss, the essential path to be able to do this is:
1. compassion for all living beings, as well as
2. wisdom. Not only wisdom understanding what is right to practice and what is to be abandoned, but also ultimate wisdom realizing the ultimate nature of the self, the “I,” body, mind, and all phenomena.
These two are the very essential path among the other many realizations on the path to enlightenment. These two are the very essence, the root.
I heard that you have cancer and that you have no fear at all of death. That is a very good sign that you have lived your life with a good heart, and that you lived a good life. Having this mental state is the result of a good life. I wish everybody in the world could also think like this. How wonderful that would be, then there would be so much peace and happiness in the world and you would never hear even the word “war.” All beings would live their lives only benefiting each other, giving only peace to each other, helping each other, because of having a good heart and caring for others, as you have done, and also as your family is doing.
It is definitely beneficial if you can live longer in this human world, as you can help others and inspire others, rather than passing away. Your life is much more beneficial to the world if you continue to live. Therefore, I am suggesting this meditation to heal your cancer.
This is based on a very secret and special female aspect of an enlightened being. Also, it is a highest tantric deity whose name is Vajrayogini. This deity’s path is very simple, most profound, and very secret. It has all the most important and skillful techniques to overcome the cycle of death and rebirth, as well as all the sufferings, quickly, and to eliminate the subtle defilements quickly by achieving enlightenment, so that you can also enlighten other sentient beings more quickly.
Generate the purest motivation, called the altruistic mind to achieve enlightenment, by thinking that the purpose of your life is not just to achieve happiness in this life. Thinking like this doesn’t make my human life special, in fact, thinking like this is no different from how animals think, even tiny insects. Also, the purpose of my life is not to cling to this life’s happiness, that attachment is non-virtue and transforms every action into non-virtue. Therefore, the result is only unhappiness, even if you achieve a human rebirth, or deva rebirth (those beings who live in a higher realm and have a billion times more sense enjoyments than human beings), let alone if you are reborn in the hell realms, hungry ghost realms, or as an animal. So, this is not the purpose of living, not the real meaning of life.
Even if one is free from the circle of existence, the continuity of the contaminated aggregates, which are caused by karma and delusion (“karma” means action), circle from life to life and go on and on like this, and therefore one experiences the sufferings of the six realms again and again without end, until we stop the continuity of the aggregates circling.
If we are suffering then we cannot liberate others. For example, if you are blind you cannot lead others or help other blind people; if you are drowning then you cannot save others who are also drowning. Therefore, we must be liberated forever from this circling existence, these contaminated aggregates caused by karma and delusion. To achieve this total liberation for oneself alone is still not the true meaning of life. The real meaning of life is to benefit others, to eliminate others’ sufferings, and to cause others happiness.
This has four levels:
1. To cause happiness in this life for others. This is one level of benefiting others. The next level which is more important is:
2. To cause them to have happiness in all future lives. Then, more important than this is:
3. To cause others to be in the sorrowless state, which is total liberation from suffering and the circle of existences. Even more important than this is to benefit other sentient beings by:
4. Bringing sentient beings to full enlightenment, peerless happiness, by oneself alone. The purpose of our lives is to cause this happiness for others. That is why we have a human body, so that we can do perfect work for sentient beings, to enlighten them.
The only way to do this is first we need to be enlightened. That means one’s own mental continuum must become the omniscient mind. For that to happen you need to actualize the whole path to enlightenment, from guru devotion up to enlightenment, all the stages and paths, and offer service to others.
To be able to offer service to other sentient beings, one needs a long and healthy life. So, think: For the benefit of all sentient beings, so as to liberate countless sentient beings from suffering and its causes and to bring them to full enlightenment, I am going to meditate and perform the recitation of Vajrayogini. Use a picture of the deity Vajrayogini to help you.
Visualize Vajrayogini on your crown or in front of you. Don’t visualize the offering goddesses around Vajrayogini, just visualize the main deity in the center. Make strong requests to Vajrayogini:
Please purify all the sickness, spirit harm, negative karma, and defilements, without the delay of even one second. May I receive within me all the qualities of Vajrayogini, all the blessings, from guru devotion, the three principal aspects of the path, to enlightenment, the two stages of highest tantra, fully developed perfect omniscience, compassion, and power.
Feel Vajrayogini has perfect loving compassion for you. She sends white beams to you, like sunbeams, that totally illuminate you. Instantly, the cancer and other conditions, spirit harm, and causes of sickness, delusions and karma, are completely purified.
With this visualization, please recite this mantra:
OM OM OM SARVA BUDDHA DAKINIYE VAJRA VARNANIYE VAJRA VAIROCANIYE HUM HUM HUM PHAT PHAT PHAT SVAHA
I am sending you a mala. If you can recite three malas of this mantra, with a strong meditation, the purification can help you a lot. Probably in the past you had strong karma with this deity.
Hope to see you soon some time in the future. If there is anything you want to express or if you have any difficulties, please let me know. You are always in my prayers.
With much love and prayers...