Ignorant_Fool wrote: ↑Wed Mar 28, 2018 10:51 am
I hope this is ok to post here. Apologies if this isn't the best place for it.
Can I please ask for some guidance with secondary practices within the DC, specifically for the benefit of those with serious illnesses? My mother-in-law just got diagnosed with colon cancer. While the outlook isn't bleak, her age and prior medical history are causing us some concern.
Apart from ensuring she gets the best medical treatment we can afford, I'd like some advice about what practices I can do to aid her recovery.
I'm guessing Mandarava would be the best option but I wasn't able to attend the last Mandarava retreat and receive transmission - so I think that's out of the question. I've just purchased the Thun and Arya Tara books (which Rinpoche have the transmissions for during the December retreat).
Just wanted to know if there's any other practice I should know about. I'm still very new at all of this and any help is very much appreciated.
Thanking you all in advance.
Rinpoche has said Red Garuda practice is specifically good against cancer.
When I had this illness of cancer, it corresponded very precisely with that year, and I thought also that my Teacher had said the length of my life would be that, so my life was finished, really. And I had only the idea of dying and that is all. I went into the hospital having little idea that I could live longer. When I had passed two or three days in the hospital, I thought, ‘Sometimes when I go around giving teachings etc, there is a practice of Red Garuda, a terma teaching of Adzom Drugpa, and it is says it is particularly good for curing cancer.’ But we had no cancer in ancient times explained particularly as cancer. But this teaching says very precisely the action mantra for curing cancer and to do visualization like so and chant this mantra. And I received this transmission from the son of Adzom Drugpa. I remembered that. I gave transmission to these people who had the illness of cancer. Some people said the doctor only gave them six months to live. And I gave them this practice, and at least two or three people did this practice intensively and they overcame this problem; at least two or three people told me that they had overcome that. Then I thought, maybe I want to do this practice also; maybe if they overcame it, I could also. I started to do a little practice but I thought maybe it’s not sufficient because my life is already finished.
I was not very concentrated. But then, a few days later, I had an idea: Many years ago I had gone to Maratika in Nepal, a place of Guru Padmasambhava. And at that time I had received a teaching in my dream of a Mandarava practice, a long life practice. Then I wrote this down. And then later, when I arrived in Italy, I did this practice. Also I gave it to some of my students. And in this practice I wrote it down as saying that even if the life is consumed, at least seven more years can be lived. I thought maybe, even if I had finished tshe tshad (the lifespan), still there is a possibility that, if I do this practice, there could be seven years more, and maybe I should do this practice. I concentrated on the essence of this practice. Then, after 20 days of doing this practice, the doctors said the illness had completely disappeared. The doctors were very satisfied because they thought their medicine and research was fantastic. In the New York Times there were two or three articles, and I became an example for them. So then, I had a lot of confidence later.
And I think that it is very important to understand that in Tibetan medicine there are gdon can and gdon med; these we must distinguish well. If there is gdon can– any kind of provocation – it is very important that we do a kind of practice, because in medicine there are many kinds of practice – for example Garuda etc. – for controlling negative provocations. We combine medicine with everything we are taking, like therapy; everything is becoming active when there is controlled energy. If we don’t control the energy, the gdon can medicine would not be successful. For that reason, I have this idea that gdon can and gdon med are very important for doctors and we should distinguish them, and the necessity for their use.
http://melong.com/keynote-address-by-ch ... 5-27-2014/