Dialogue with the Soul: Part I

This Life's Heart and Blood-Cancer Lesions Come from a Past Life of Perverse Slaughter Rinpoche's direct communication and dialogue with a consulting soul — 2021-05-12

Devotee: I suddenly came down with a serious illness.I hadn't even used my national health card yet, and then I found a traditional Chinese doctor who misdiagnosed me — dragged it out for half a year.On top of that I was careless myself.Later I ate placenta someone gave me, and in one go the lump in my chest swelled to over ten centimeters.It looks like the cancer cells in my body were triggered — fully triggered.Now I've seen a doctor and he says it's stage 4 breast cancer, with metastasis.Yesterday a friend took me to Xingtian Temple.She consulted someone there — I think they call him Wuchang Shangshi or Wuchang Enshi — and he said this is a karmic creditor from past lives coming to collect; he said I need to repay the debt by chanting sūtras and dedicating merit, and that the other side is holding a black command flag.Because my friend asked, not me, I don't know whether this is karmic or just a worldly matter.But what the doctor said is terrifying.Another part is: should I use Western medicine, Chinese medicine, or natural therapy?They seem to say with Western medicine I'll certainly die, so don't go that route — they suggest natural therapy.But because the tumor is still growing, I'm currently doing Chinese medicine to regulate, Western medicine with anti-hormone drugs to press it down, but it feels like it isn't pressing it down — it's still growing.The Chinese doctor has also prescribed something to kill cancer cells, but I feel it's just so-so.I'm not sure whether to combine everything going forward, or just natural therapy, or Chinese plus natural therapy, or — if I just go to Xingtian Temple every day to chant the Diamond Sūtra, dedicate merit to them, do 20 recitations a day, 15 to 20, could that resolve this?Our family used to be Christian, and I've been through a lot of religions — maybe five generations' worth.So I've touched quite a few religions, I don't settle in any particular one.I personally have a connection with the Bodhisattva — Avalokiteśvara, or Thousand-Armed Thousand-Eyed Avalokiteśvara.That's about it for now.Just now my whole body felt hot — I think the bodhisattva is helping.I've been thinking: in life nothing has ever really worked out, nothing's been smooth.Did I really commit some unforgivable sin across lifetimes, or what, to end up with this?One of them at Xingtian Temple even told me straight out: I'm 47 this year — 46 years and 8 months — and in about two years, when I turn 49, I may not make it.Is that tied to this illness, or is this a karmic creditor coming to collect, is this cause and effect?In this life I don't think I've done anything terribly wicked — doesn't seem so.I'm very troubled, so I've come to ask Rinpoche.Lay student (sister) said Rinpoche is extraordinary in many ways and very wise, so I came to consult.

Rinpoche: Actually, many things aren't just this life's.Factors accumulated across past lives haven't been resolved, so these things keep happening to you — the signal hasn't been turned off.Past and present lives can now be verified scientifically to exist.The brain can remember things from 500,000 years ago; the brain itself is not something that vanishes, because it stores magnetic imprints as memory.When a person dies the memory still transfers — it's all in the DNA.Memory stays in your DNA, and the soul is the carrier.It enters another body in reincarnation.That's why so many people reincarnate still carrying their old memories — "karma follows the body" — it replays.Our task in this life is to see this clearly and cut it off.That's what it means to be liberated from suffering.Otherwise you spin forever in saṃsāra.If you don't solve it this time, next life you'll be replaying the same problem — different setting, same situation.I've seen plenty of this.So when a person falls ill, it is the soul inside protesting.First it protests that it hasn't been liberated — it goes on and on the same way, several lifetimes of the same problem.And why can't you change — why do I have to go on suffering like this?First, it hasn't been able to reincarnate somewhere good, hasn't found a right practice, so it can't be liberated.Second, reincarnation follows your karma — old wine in a new bottle — and lifetime after lifetime it's tortured.When the soul is sick, that makes the mind sick, and that makes the body sick.The soul is the most delicate — at the central core.Outside that is the psychological state.Outside that is the physical state.If your soul is sick and brings the virus with it, it infects your psychological health.That's why so many people have mental problems — manic depression, all that — and these create pressure, which is also a main cause of cancer.Taut nerves, always ready to fight, afraid to fight, in battle-ready mode too long — the cells split into two factions, like DPP versus KMT, or communist states versus national states facing off, like Myanmar — that becomes the mechanism.So you have to let it return to peace, which means negotiating.Negotiating with whom?With the soul.Last time in a lecture I said: you have to speak to your cells.It has worked — but you need great faith.You always start the conversation from the body, because speaking to the soul directly doesn't get through.From the body you go in — to organs, to cells — then speak to the mind, then speak to the soul.Then you can cut in.Our conscious behavior blocks it; it's as if the brain-consciousness is what lets you talk to cells.Why can't you talk to them?Because I don't believe in what exists, and I don't believe in what doesn't exist.So it blocks — "this is useless!" — the conscious area cuts you off right at the front.It's like going to the Presidential Office: you can't get in to see the President, he won't let you in.Will you harm me?Are you a spy?So they block you at the gate.Our conscious behavior now blocks us from entering the subconscious — we live by 5% brain use.There was a lot I didn't say in that lecture; I only covered the opening section — the 5%-life pattern.You're trying to solve 5% of problems with 5% of the brain, and we can't even manage that.We live forever inside the 5%, and none of our problems get resolved.If the brain can upgrade to 10%, we can solve the 5% of problems humanity faces.Just an idea for now — maybe when you go back you can treat yourself this way.The mind has its own innate ability to heal itself.The body is a medicine cabinet; we are each a hospital.You've never gone back to your own hospital — because you've never communicated with it, because you don't understand yourself.That is why you sit in meditation: to understand yourself."It turns out my body has a hospital, a medicine cabinet, a treasury — everything.You beg outside and get nothing; begging outside, no one can really help you." So — "The Buddha is in the heart, do not seek far." All the energy is in your own body.The reason it won't open is that there's too much worldly stuff — you can't get in."Sesame won't open" — the password is wrong.Inside the treasury you really do just say "Open sesame" — correct password, it opens.Practitioners don't know this.Everyone talks about practice.They don't know where they're practicing, and they still practice.Completely clueless.Standing there holding incense bowing — that is what they call practice.Not right.

Rinpoche: Is your question whether health is tied to karma?Or just about health?

Devotee: These are related, aren't they?Like the disease palace in the chart — he said this is a karmic illness, a karmic obstruction illness.Now someone is holding a black command flag coming to collect my life — that's why this happened.The process has been strange, because that Chinese doctor is top-ranked, called a divine physician.But a divine physician who misdiagnoses — I was pretty startled.Or was some karmic obstruction blocking something?

Rinpoche: That's possible — it makes him misjudge.

Devotee: Right, completely misdiagnosed.Dragged out for half a year, or it wouldn't be this bad.Then under misdiagnosis I ate placenta — strange: three years earlier I was handed some and wouldn't touch it.This time it matched my body's receptors like a key, became nutrition for it, and in one go it was out of control.

Rinpoche: Cancer cells are living things.They can read.Cancer cells are smart — smarter than our good cells.They have a defense mechanism.You eat something, they read it: will this harm me?If yes, they shut themselves in.They have a shell — you can't punch through, right?Later I researched a way to treat cancer: hypnotize the cancer cells so the drug can go in.Under hypnosis the cancer cells don't notice, so the drug gets through.Otherwise their defense system is smart — they can sense, they have that sensing system — "this thing coming in will destroy my cell, will kill me" — and they seal up.

Devotee: Does targeted therapy hit them?If they're this smart, targeted therapy just blasts them.

Rinpoche: It's like bin Laden — hit him and he hides everywhere.You can only lock onto one target.

Devotee: And mine's spread.

Rinpoche: And it can also brainwash good cells, turn them into bad cells.Smart as hell.So I was halfway through the research.I thought I could win a Nobel — the medicine prize.I'm interested in medicine.I wrote a book on how to face cancer cells, because I treat cancer cells as persons.So I invented: you hypnotize cancer cells.At the time I wanted to teach a lot of university students to help cancer patients — but no one to train in how to hypnotize cancer cells.

Devotee: Rinpoche, because your gongfu is deep you can hypnotize cancer cells.Ordinary people probably can't — right?

Rinpoche: What I just said is a conscious/subconscious problem.We have the ability built in, but you don't believe it, or you have no confidence, and third, you have no reverence for your own body.So it becomes a fence, an electric grid — you can't get through, you issue a command and it won't take it.If your body obeys you and accepts, really trusts — what you say I take in — the cells say okay, I've taken it in too.But normally you aren't good to it, so now: you never cared about me, why should I move?It won't move.So you have to train this normally — not wait for a problem and then start training; too late.You have to listen to the voice of the soul.Listening to you is not accurate.Listening to the soul's grievance — that is accurate.The soul won't lie to you.People, when they speak, dress things up.The soul just says: I protest.Put this on your chest.Today I'll see whether your soul has anything to say.

Devotee: Like a stethoscope.

Rinpoche: This is the stethoscope of the dharmadhātu.This is a dharma-conch.This is pulse-reading on a silk thread.

Devotee: Amazing.

Rinpoche: I did silk-thread pulse-reading at a university — they almost died of fright.They said: so this really exists, impossible.They thought it was only in novels.From underneath I threw a red thread over — threw it a long way — and took the pulse right there, laid out all his ailments.The person was a secretary at the Hsinchu city government.I know too many things.Once you enter the universe, it just comes to hand.

============ Rinpoche reads pulse by silk thread for the devotee ============

Rinpoche: Alright, you can hang up now.Your killing-karma is heavy.You were in the Japanese era — a Japanese soldier, a Japanese officer.Your temper was bad, and sadistic.The Japanese officer at the time — this must have been during the Nanjing massacre period — but when he came across the old, weak, women and children he loved to torment them.His taste was for younger children.He had a quirk: he'd heard that eating the heart is the most tonic, so he was especially keen on it.When they stormed into a city and caught a child, he'd slit the belly open on the spot and take the small heart out.He said this man was obsessed, deluded — he thought eating a child's heart would keep him forever young, full of vitality.So his interest, while attacking a city in battle, was specifically catching children.That period's karma is the heaviest karma.Of course, as I'm listening to your soul's account — he says that after doing all this, he had great remorse.But what was done was done — he had killed that many children, eaten that many hearts, and he didn't know, couldn't find a way to clear this huge karmic entanglement.Could not clear it.He said you've tried many methods — Daoism and so on.And a Daoist god with a black face — he came out too, a black-faced god.You must have gone to this god.

Devotee: Yes — yesterday — at Xingtian Temple.

Rinpoche: He says: the first stage is urgent, so first go to Baoan Temple.Baoan Temple over by Dalongtong.Go to Baoan Temple first — pray to him to repair the urgent condition in your body first.

Devotee: Baosheng Dadi?

Rinpoche: Yes.He just wrote down "Baoan Temple" — he told me to use Baoan Temple first to settle your body and keep it from getting worse.As for releasing the soul, he says he can't do it, because the images that created this haven't disappeared.So when the soul reincarnates, that form will appear.He says that normally, you should still get many problems — not just the breast.Because you cut children's hearts open and even roasted them to eat.

Devotee: How could I have been so evil then?I have absolutely no memory of it now.

Rinpoche: How would you remember?So you have to take on the suffering of those who suffered then — one who was going to be burned.So sometimes your body gets hot, inexplicably hot — right?

Devotee: Right.

Rinpoche: Burning sensation, like a BBQ, like eating chicken hearts.Second — normally — you should get lupus.The problem of resistance, the immune-system problem.So you ought to get lupus — body like it's been burned.Third — the slitting-open — the heart is right here — so your fatal injury is right here.In the chest.He opens the chest directly, so your fatal wound is right there.This is a heavy evil karma.In that stretch you killed quite a lot — and all children.Children's hearts are the youngest and tastiest.So in this life, with children, personally, you may need to be especially careful.

Devotee: I'm not married.

Rinpoche: Right — so with children, probably no chance.Even if there were, they'd die.Your children have no karmic bond with you, because you killed children in the past.Children would hold hatred toward you, so in this life it's hard to have children.And family — because you destroyed people's families, killed the children in them — so in this life you can't enjoy the warmth of a family.Second, no children — that's your karmic retribution.Third, as I just said, you were destined for the slitting-open — major surgery, cut by someone.

Devotee: So that's why the one above told me I can't go the Western-medicine route — because that's walking right into the script.The black-faced god said so yesterday.

Rinpoche: The black-faced god just came out and said so — he just told me — he said: this person needs to go first to Baoan Temple's Baosheng Dadi; drag it any longer and it will be ~~~~

Devotee: It's already spread.

Rinpoche: Right, harder.Hurry — ask Baosheng Dadi.Baosheng Dadi is very potent, very strong.

Devotee: Yesterday the black-faced god told me to go to Xingtian Temple to chant the Diamond Sūtra.I don't know — my friend asked for me, not me, so I don't know.

Rinpoche: Go to Baoan Temple first.To chant the Diamond Sūtra until it can be dedicated to the karmic creditors takes time.Whether it moves them or not is another matter.At Baoan Temple, you pray to him — because he is a doctor, he is the doctor of the spirit world.He can directly — because he is compassionate — directly treat you.So go first.He says: chanting Diamond Sūtra plus Baoan Temple — go to Baoan Temple first.

Rinpoche: Mentioning Baoan Temple reminds me — I went to the Taipei Buddhist supply shop, and my tooth was hurting unbearably.Somehow we walked into Baoan Temple.I didn't know the way — I took the bus.The tooth hurt so badly I couldn't eat lunch, and inexplicably I walked into Baoan Temple.I didn't even go in to pray.I walked in — it was cooler there — I walked in and walked out, and the tooth was fine, instantly.I just walked past his temple gate like that, and the tooth was fine.So I was very impressed.Too potent.He steps up on his own — "your tooth hurts, I'll treat it." Taipei Baoan Temple, very potent.Near Jiuquan Street.That day the bodhisattva must have said "go to Baoan Temple first" — guided me, and the moment I walked past that gate it was healed.Quite the karmic bond.So sometimes he solves our problems for us.So — the black-faced god wants you to go to Baoan Temple first, to settle your body so it doesn't deteriorate.

Devotee: Do I pray to him, or??

Rinpoche: Yes — pray, and while you're at it, draw a divination slip.If there's a slip, follow his instruction.You can ask him.Baosheng Dadi is the heavenly physician — this is first.The Diamond Sūtra — if he asks you to chant it, you must, no problem.But your soul is in deep agony right now.He knows he was wrong, but he has no way to resolve it.He says you've searched a lot, but those weren't the ultimate method, not the method that resolves it.

Devotee: Is there a method to really resolve it?Rinpoche, do you have a method?

Rinpoche: Let me tell you — practice isn't a two-or-three-day thing.Everyone's insight is different.I tell you and you may not take it in, may not understand.So don't wait for the body to have problems before thinking of practice.We should be doing these exercises normally; then when something hits we drop into the right state and can handle it.If you've never touched it, and run to the wrong places to learn, to ask — those aren't correct.That's why you say you can't find a method.

Devotee: So basically — where is the orthodox way?

Rinpoche: The orthodox way is still Buddhadharma!Find the right place, the right religion, the right teacher — only then it works.And finding the right religion but not finding a teacher is also useless.So everything comes back to facing yourself.I was just telling them: everything has to be traced from the fruit back to the cause, resolved at the cause, so the fruit stops deteriorating.Water pollution — you still have to find the source of the pollution, deal with it, then there's water to drink.You keep dealing with the downstream, the filthy water keeps coming, you can never finish.That's why you trace fruit back to cause.Trace from your current body — how did the cause come?Killing-karma.And not ordinary killing-karma — not normal killing-karma.Your past-life officer was perverted.He turned the anger of things that didn't go his way, that he was dissatisfied with, into this — partly venting, partly superstition.He thought this thing was very tonic for him.A bit perverted psychologically.

Disciple: So someone had fed him wrong information?

Rinpoche: Right!At that time he had anger — the poison of anger was heavy.So you must also have gone through stretches of bad mood.

Devotee: When I was young.

Rinpoche: Heavy anger too.Anger means getting mad — nothing seems satisfactory.Looking down on something is also anger.Scorn is also stirred by anger.Then — mistakenly believing in heterodox things.So in this life too you'll mistakenly believe in heterodox things, try anything, listen to anything.Misled into believing eating a child's heart is tonic.Second, taking anger and rage and venting them — as if killing one gives a sense of accomplishment, then eating the heart means I'll stay young forever — he went seriously off the path.So your soul now is also suffering, because he has gone through several lifetimes and still gets tortured like this.

Devotee: So each time, no method was found —

Rinpoche: No way.Because the soul hasn't found release, hasn't found rescue.So no matter how many times he reincarnates he still faces this problem.

Devotee: So there's no ultimate root-level solution.

Rinpoche: Of course there is.Our task this life is to let your soul be rescued — no more wheel of rebirth.If you did something wrong, it's this life to resolve: face your cause and repent.Not repenting to the fruit — the fruit is already there, repenting is useless.Fruit that grew badly — what should the farmer repent?Did I water enough, did I pick off pests, did I fertilize, did I check whether the soil's fertile, did I set drainage, did the roots rot, so the fruit's inedible?Trace it back to the cause!Repent to the fruit — tomorrow I start weeding, start caring for these trees, start de-pesting and fertilizing, and next harvest the fruit comes beautiful for you to eat.If you can't repent and resolve the cause, your second harvest will be the same.

Devotee: So chanting the Diamond Sūtra works, just slower.

Rinpoche: My suggestion first is one Diamond Sūtra, and one Vajrasattva Hundred-Syllable Mantra.That one you have to learn — it will double the effect.

Devotee: Chant it, or write it?

Rinpoche: Chant plus visualize.So normally you have to chant.

Someone else: If you trust Rinpoche, come request the dharma text to take home.

Rinpoche: In Taichung I accidentally cured a breast cancer.What do I mean by accidentally?Because she never said she had the problem.I was in Taichung — some people had invited me to teach some dharma — and I said to them, "Since everyone has come so sincerely today, I'll practice a Vajrasattva Hundred-Syllable Mantra for you to clear ill-will.Why?Those with illnesses, with physical discomforts — while I'm chanting the mantra, you draw the mantra onto your ailing part.I'll repent for your illness.I repent for you because you don't know how.I chant the repentance mantra for you, and you pull its sound into the heavy-illness area."

Devotee: Meaning treat them.

Rinpoche: Among them was a woman with breast cancer.She never said she had cancer.I did two rounds of the practice for them — the third time she still didn't say.Later she asked the lay student who had introduced me to teach, "What does Rinpoche prefer?" The lay student replied, "Rinpoche likes raising dogs — poodles, little ones that look cute." She said nothing more.Later she called and asked me to come to Taichung — she wanted to give me a dog.A famous breed, very pretty, small.She gave me three at one go, I nearly fainted.One white Pomeranian, two Malteses.I asked, "Why are you giving them to me?There must be a reason." She said, "Thanks to you — because in those three rounds, the lump I'd had just vanished." Not deliberately.Before she spoke I didn't know.I was just trying to do the method of clearing illnesses for you, and a miracle appeared.Three recitations and it cleared.That's why she gave me those dogs.That's when I realized this practice is that effective.Repent to the illness.Illness is a warning signal, a protest — protesting that you treat it poorly.What does the chest represent?Mood and karma both lodge in that area of the chest.That's why lung adenocarcinoma, breast cancer, these come up — most of the karma sits at the chest.Past anger and resentment, heavy, pressed into the chest.Grudges pressed in.Vengeance also pressed in.In the end it forms the karma.The heart is bad; past-life love of eating others' hearts makes it worse.It congeals the evil karma right here.It can't be cleared, and you can't chant it off yourself.Sometimes I chant for you — but it isn't you repenting.Repentance has to be your own.So you need extra tutoring — beyond Diamond Sūtra, add Vajrasattva Hundred-Syllable Mantra to clear and purify the evil karma.Can you chant it?Have you learned it?Can you recite from memory?

Devotee: Yes, very familiar.

Rinpoche: Then you still need to visualize.Not just chant.Visualize white light shining on the ailing part, like disinfecting.Keep at it every day, diligently.Because right now don't think of anything else — don't think of making money, don't think of anything — concentrate on repenting the evil karma in my chest.So just chanting the Diamond Sūtra with your mouth isn't very effective.The point of the Diamond Sūtra is to tell your karmic obstructions that all things are just emptiness — your clinging is useless.But your karmic obstructions have to understand; if they don't, no use.You tell them the realm of the Diamond Sūtra and they can't understand — keep chanting, they don't understand.Rather than explain in plain speech, go directly: Sorry — in past lives I didn't know, but past-life karma has made me ill; from today on I'm willing to repent in such-and-such a way, I should do things that benefit beings.Negotiate with the past-life business and karmic creditors — move them.If moved, they have perception.If your ailing area is moved, the moved place will respond.If it responds, good.So in Tainan — I've mentioned in a lecture — a Tainanese woman had lung adenocarcinoma.I taught her to speak this way, and later she didn't die.The doctor was astonished — three months to live and she didn't die; she even went to university.Chemotherapy shaved her head bald, pitiful — but she went to university.That's a miracle.I taught her the method, how to converse with the body, speak with the body — your body will answer, like a phone call: did you receive?I know, it's slowly relaxing.In ancient times there was a thing called "talking illness" — talking the sickness away with words — and what I'm describing is cell hypnosis.

Devotee: You communicate with the illness?

Rinpoche: Yes.Then learn — come listen to the Dharma — how to learn to treat your own body, how to treat your own mind.How to treat your own soul.All three must be learned.Learning once it hits is too late.Learn it when you don't have it — of course it would be best if neither you nor anyone around you ever had it, but if the people around you catch it, right?Then you can quickly help them — that's the greatest merit, and the most joyful thing.In the past I spent my money buying medicine, researching medicine.I bought a lot of medicine and never used it.I bought over ten catties of medicinal materials, spent tens of thousands, had it sitting there, and didn't come across a single cancer patient.The medicine spoiled sitting there.We're not afraid of catching it ourselves — we're afraid someone around us catches it.Afraid we can't get the medicine.There was a lay student (sister), breast cancer, and still now every Chinese New Year — her daughter was this small, now this big — every year she sends me a video, saying, "Rinpoche, Happy New Year," and even sings for me.Also at Christmas, right?Very gratifying.That child was 1 year old at the time; last time it was said she had only a few months, two or three months to live.We asked Mañjuśrī — asked how long for her, really, since the child was so small.I drove the car to Hsiang-shan to buy Chinese medicinal materials.Didn't charge her a cent, spent tens of thousands.Some is still upstairs — probably spoiled.I even personally prepared the medicine, didn't take half a cent, taught her methods.Now she's doing well, the child is grown, every year records singing for me.Very joyful.At least her faith was enough — then I could help her a lot.Otherwise what do we get from this?If she lives well and the child lives well, that's joy!So one should normally have this kind of knowledge.Learn Dharma, listen to Dharma, learn ahead.Emergency-teaching won't work, and in a panic the cells can't be moved.That's why just now the black-faced god said: go to Baoan Temple.Right now, chanting "Diamond Sūtra 20 times a day" is too late.Your cells have to be moved, have to understand — then it works.If you start chanting Vajrasattva Hundred-Syllable Mantra now, who knows if it works.Can you chant it?

Devotee: So Rinpoche is saying — Baoan Temple first, then do the self-dialogue?

Rinpoche: Before sleep, anytime at rest, talk to your own mind.Talk to your heart: In the past I hurt so many people — I didn't know.Today Rinpoche has shown me the past's heavy anger stored right here, hurt so many children, little ones — so in this life I take this censure, of course I accept.But if you can accept my repentance, I hope I still have life-force to help more people who need help, people with the same illness as me.There was a lot I didn't say in that lecture.Sometimes an illness lets us understand it, then we learn to treat it and help others — that's shifting thought.When you've researched an illness through, you're a famous physician.In my lecture on the method of escaping suffering — if I hadn't gotten kidney stones, I couldn't have saved that lay student.I worked hard to study how stones are treated.Learning how to treat stones meant I could help when I ran into stones.It's a sacred task; it becomes your learning direction.So facing your current condition: later I'll help people who get this illness.You go from patient to doctor's angle.

Devotee: A three-fold project.

Rinpoche: Then it's different.So you say to your cells: if you let me recover, I will help people with the same illness as me, people with this problem.Different sentiment — your cells will be moved.You're not the victim anymore, you're the rescuer.The rescuer has no suffering.There was a lot I didn't say that day.That Du Yuan-kun, the Yi-Shou University doctor — I was very moved.How was he moved?He was moved by the "10-NT grandma" — who made 10-NT lunchboxes for dock workers and sold off seven houses.These people never once said "bitter." She did it with joy, so her bitterness didn't exist.For his employees — he himself had diabetes, was wasted thin — he donated half his salary, donated hundreds of millions to the medical school, in the end even his legacy he won't leave to his children, giving it all.He became a high practitioner liberated from suffering.All his microsurgery is world-class.His heart turned fully toward this thing — so suffering doesn't exist for him.10-NT grandma had no bitterness, sold seven houses and never said bitter, each day happily making lunchboxes — 10 NT lets you eat your fill and I'm happy.These people, transformed like this — their realm is already free of suffering.No suffering.If you rescue others from suffering you're free of suffering; only those who do not rescue are called suffering.Only selfish behavior lets you take on suffering.Unselfishly rescuing others from suffering — suffering can't entangle you at all.

Devotee: Shift thought — from victim to rescuer.

Rinpoche: In my lecture notes I wrote: rescuing others' suffering, you can be free of suffering.Not rescuing others, you are in suffering.So when we do the Medicine Buddha fire-offering we say — hoping this Medicine Buddha fire-offering — if you have a stomachache, how do you say it?"I'm not important; I hope all beings with the same stomachache as me are healed." One is selfish, the other is self-benefit, the other is benefiting-others — the force of benefiting others is strongest, benefiting self is weakest.So this has to be learned.That's why praying for wealth doesn't come: ask for money, money won't give itself to you.I'm practicing wealth deity now — "I hope all people without money, like me, can earn money, can live well" — effective.If "let me earn a little more, others have nothing to do with me, I don't know them" — can't come.

Devotee: So the resolve must be right first.

Rinpoche: So your mind must shift.Make a vow — "Vow to the bodhisattva: if my lifespan can be restored to health and extended, I'm willing to learn the skills to help people with this same illness."

Devotee: I was halfway through promoting character education.

Rinpoche: Then your cells get happy."Oh — so this is how you speak now, I accept what you say.You're benefiting others, not selfish." Second: you must help people with heart problems, like those many congenital-heart-disease children.You'll be repaid.Like the friend of a lay student — his family broke up, his whole life has been bad.Also divorced, bad.The story from the last lecture: he was a hunter, his interest also from heavy anger — he couldn't stand to see a family together, so he'd smash a bird's nest, not let the mother bird raise her chicks, take the eggs.He destroyed others' animal families, drove them to ruin.After I'd looked, how to fix?I said — build them houses: nail together small wooden boxes, little huts for the birds to live, give them a home, give strays a home.In past lives you destroyed homes; this life your home was destroyed.Reverse it — let others have homes.So I think with illness: I wish others' illnesses healed.We care — like Du Yuan-kun, he wishes others their mobility back, does microsurgery well.If you can walk, he's delighted — a living bodhisattva.All go by this method.Then our suffering lessens, illnesses lessen.

Devotee: Rinpoche, let me ask — suppose the black-faced god told me to chant the Diamond Sūtra — do I still need to chant at the temple?Home is fine.

Rinpoche: Where the heart has Buddha, every place is a monastery.

Devotee: Right.

Rinpoche: If you're devout, chanting anywhere is the same.Right?Gods aren't sitting there all day listening to you chant.

Devotee: He said: first go to the temple for three months, he'll protect you first, then see.I don't know — because I didn't ask directly, so I don't know if it's the god's meaning or his own.

Rinpoche: At least over there is more secure — if someone's coming with a black command flag, more secure, that's one.Second, more focused.Chanting at home it's easy to be distracted, not focused — chanting without focus has no effect.If you chant 20 rounds but your mind wanders mid-chant to other things, no merit.

Devotee: When chanting, do I need to understand it first, or just chant it out?

Rinpoche: If it were me, I'd definitely hear a Dharma teaching first.Hear the Diamond Sūtra explained, then chant — otherwise you don't know what you're chanting.Like chanting a Vajrayāna text where the Chinese parts must be chanted — know what you're chanting now, because the Sanskrit pronunciation you don't understand.You should know the meaning of what you're chanting; that gives it function.I used to teach the practice of the Diamond Sūtra.Go back and look again — ah, so that's it: "All conditioned dharmas are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows, like dew, like lightning — observe them thus." You tell your cells: all things, past, present and future, originally didn't exist.But because I have greed, anger, delusion, pride, doubt — these — it turned bad.If you got along with ordinary mind, nothing would come.Only with anger does karmic obstruction arise.Without discriminating mind, world peace.With discriminating mind, world war — comparing, fighting over each other.So if the cells have no discriminating mind, they won't fight — no cancer cells, everyone at peace.Why fight?Won't accept each other — like the two political parties, DPP vs KMT, democratic countries vs communists, same thing.Can't stand to see you doing well, right?"I had it hard — I'll hit you to vent." Reach equilibrium — the point is the mind's imbalance; your cells go abnormal, it's imbalance.

Devotee: Right, long-term imbalance.

Rinpoche: And heavy rage."Greed, anger, delusion, pride, doubt" — the five poisons — all causes of cancer cells.To clear it now, my suggestion is: as the black-faced god said, go to Baoan Temple.First go ask him to prop up your life-force, so there's time afterward for repentance.Without the lifeline propped up, how do you repent — there has to be opportunity.

Devotee: Baoan Temple — one time, or many?

Rinpoche: If it's convenient to go often, go — more moving.Only visiting a god once is also a bit strange.

Devotee: Can I chant the Diamond Sūtra there?

Rinpoche: Yes.I'd suggest Baoan Temple — it's a medical unit.Direct help.

Devotee: It's because Rinpoche saw me worth saving.Someone else goes ten times and he might ignore them.We have the karmic connection, so he can help.

[Note: Rinpoche continues] Better than dentistry.So go to Baoan Temple first.For chanting, I suggest Baoan Temple.

Devotee: So — chant Diamond Sūtra and Vajrasattva Hundred-Syllable Mantra.

Rinpoche: Chant onto the body part.Chant onto the area that's uncomfortable — like the breast.

Bystander: Wherever the cancer cells have spread, chant to that place.

Devotee: Bone, skin, ribs, etc.

"May my Vajrasattva Hundred-Syllable Mantra practice repent for and soothe and repair and purify all the cells of my body." Vajrasattva purifies — purifies the virus.And because of my repentance, Vajrasattva becomes salvation.So two functions.One purify, one save.I've experienced his power — I use the Vajrasattva practice a lot.Reactions on many people are strong.Even wrongful marriages — works.I used Vajrasattva practice until a mistress broke up with my disciple.One disciple brought his mistress, his disciple's wife came to tell me.I didn't make a show of it, because the other husband is a gangster.I scheduled a session: next week we practice Vajrasattva.I told the disciple, bring your friend to practice.He brought the girlfriend, the two flirting there.After the practice — the two inexplicably fell out, the woman stormed out, the man ran after her.I didn't say a word.On that very day they broke up.The mistress went back and apologized to her husband — he shouldn't be betrayed.Later the mistress arranged for her husband to come meet me, because her husband was scared her boyfriend would beat him — the boyfriend is a gangster, didn't dare move — he's an honest man, came to thank me, "Master, thank you for bringing my wife back." I said, no, karmic bond.So Vajrasattva is extremely sublime.Another breast-cancer devotee practiced and it just vanished — we feel it's a miracle.So I strongly endorse practicing Vajrasattva now.Besides chanting, you need visualization.Visualize white light shining on your body, white light washing off the black things on you — including, when karmic obstruction touches it, it's moved.It will save.If it's illness, through him he disinfects you.

Devotee: So now I visualize white light cleaning my whole body.

Rinpoche: The universe is originally a medicine cabinet; you just can't take anything out yet.If you learn to slowly approach the universe, whatever you want it gives you.In empty space there is money; in empty space there is medicine — all there.In the past we used the method of food-offering.What's food-offering?I've taught others.Three cups of noodle-porridge.You can use this too — if you can't learn properly, use three cups of milk to clear karma.Add some noodles, go outside and offer.First offer karmic creditors; second offer sentient beings.Many famous physicians have died; many drifting-ghost famous physicians, they can treat your illnesses.So when you make food-offering to them and say what illnesses you have, ask them to help repair.They accept your offering and will seek out: who among us is a famous physician, who treats cancer — this person makes offerings very devoutly, help treat him.So first we invite bodhisattvas or buddhas, the upper layer, to help treat us; second — the karmic creditors — tossed to beings closer to them, also very effective.Noodle-porridge three cups, milk-porridge three cups — milk-porridge three cups is for karmic illness; noodle-porridge three cups is for people whose karma isn't that heavy.Divided into two uses.Those who need it, learn to do it.Three disposable cups, pour milk, seven-tenths full, cooked noodles.Illness — use milk-porridge, add noodles.Go to a quieter outdoor spot, under a tree, somewhere few people walk.Paper cups are more eco-friendly.Chant a few mantras to make the offering, offering all beings.State your needs — because among beings there are many doctors, also wealthy ones.Tell them: help a bit with the economy too.There are those who were very wealthy but didn't practice — in the end they also become beings.Some physicians who didn't practice, after death — they also drift as beings.I offer to you, please help a bit.You pray above too; sometimes help from down below is stronger and faster.Follow these two methods, full faith.If it can move your cells, no problem.Baosheng Dadi wants you to go — to keep your health from deteriorating — and after that, step by step.When it's over, invest yourself in things, rescue congenital-heart-disease children.

Devotee: I happen to know the chairperson of that association — the Congenital Heart Disease Association chairperson, a friend of mine.He used to do wedding photography, then some karmic bond put him with the heart-disease association.

Rinpoche: Just so — I'm already linked up.You go there as a volunteer.

Devotee: So there's a chance the karmic obstruction can be cleared — or not necessarily?

Rinpoche: Of course there's a chance.The reason it can't be cleared: you can't trace back to the cause and you dedicate merit randomly.Treatment also needs to hit a target.To dedicate merit to karmic creditors also needs an object — what caused this problem of yours?And other problems are caused by other karmic obstructions.Not just this one.Karma isn't just a single piece.

Devotee: Rinpoche picks the most severe to speak about.

Rinpoche: This is what you need to resolve now — the worse one.What I just phoned up and discussed is the target of your cancer cells.For people without money, trace fruit to cause.I'll say the cause of being without money — a person's problems are never just one, so there will be more.That day I spoke of twelve entangled causations: Life Palace, Siblings, Spouse, Children, Wealth, Illness, Travel, Friends, Career, Property, Fortune, Parents — twelve causations around you, right?They take turns.This one makes you without money; that one makes you unable to find a husband; one gives you illness — where?So you must professionally practice and dedicate merit, do all meritorious acts, make all round — don't leave a straggler in the Children palace.Your children come to make trouble for you.Like those princes and princesses on my practice-mandala table: parents are billionaires but the children have too many problems; parents worry over them.

Devotee: Rinpoche — in this life, do I have a main deity?I haven't specifically looked.

Rinpoche: No need — practice well, he'll come to you.You don't need to look for him.Vajrayāna says the yidam appears.For us, Avalokiteśvara as yidam is best.We take Thousand-Armed Avalokiteśvara as yidam — hoping I have 1000 hands to save you, hoping 1000 eyes to see where you are.His authority is great; also 42 chief heads, 42 kinds of divine implements that can save you — scalpels too.I used to greatly revere Thousand-Armed Avalokiteśvara.What I do now is just this — so many people come find me, I immediately help with thousand hands thousand eyes.Too many problems.

Devotee: Rinpoche, please instruct — about my medical approach now: do I completely drop Western medicine, go pure natural therapy?Chinese medicine as assist, or drop Chinese medicine too and just do natural therapy?

Rinpoche: You have to find the right Chinese doctor.Chinese medicine isn't bad — breast cancers have been cured.The point is finding the right person, the right formula.Once the karmic-creditor side has been buffered down, you'll find the right physician.If the karmic creditor is not faced and dealt with, he does "ghost wall" on you — wrong drug, wrong diagnosis, wrong intake.Good luck vs bad luck, two options; your protector chooses, finds the good one for you; karma chooses, finds the bad one.

Devotee: Is my protector still there?

Rinpoche: If karma is heavy, the protector is helpless!On karmic matters the protector can't intervene.Bodhisattvas and buddhas can't intervene.You brought it on yourself, no one else can help you — they can only teach you methods, how to resolve the thing with the other side.A lawyer can't rule the case; a prosecutor can't rule it; only the judge can judge.So where do the buddhas and bodhisattvas stand?Teachers of repentance — teaching you how to change yourself.They can't decide that your karma doesn't need repaying — impossible.It's a settled fact.

Devotee: Rinpoche, one more — unrelated to the body: seven years ago I had a lawsuit, and now I'm wondering whether to change lawyers.This part isn't about health, but it's a major factor in my body's situation.

Rinpoche: That's pressure and emotion.

Devotee: It's had a huge impact on me — I'm thinking about this part.He's a government-appointed Legal Aid Foundation lawyer.From the start our opinions differed, but he's very subjective; I can't communicate with him.The court doesn't let me speak.We've been through two hearings; the third is the verdict.Do I need to change this lawyer?

Rinpoche: Government-appointed ones won't think too hard for you.Hurry and settle it — you need to switch lawyers.Labor-insurance drugs and self-pay drugs are different.I give the example so you get it: labor-insurance drug — three months and still unwell; then self-pay drug — three days and you feel it.That way you get it.Anything else?

Devotee: Then I'll do targeted therapy with Western medicine; next week I won't go.

Rinpoche: The black-faced god told you to go to Baoan Temple first — go first.The black-faced god gave the instruction.

Devotee: Rinpoche can reach the black-faced god — that's amazing.

Rinpoche: Because when I was linking in, he cut in.

Devotee: I don't know who you're talking about, but I do know his face was black.They all call him Wushang Enshi — I'm not clear, I'm not from Xingtian Temple.

Rinpoche: Yes — that's the black-faced god.

Devotee: Thank you, Rinpoche.Today is lucky.Standing there, my whole body was hot — it seemed the bodhisattva was handling it for me.

Rinpoche: Where there's karmic bond, the bodhisattva is willing to help.Right — hurry to Baoan Temple.State the matter clearly to him.I absolutely trust Baoan Temple — because he healed my tooth; I still remember with gratitude.I said: you're stronger than the dentist.

Devotee: A friend of mine who practices Avalokiteśvara also told me to go to Baoan Temple.At the time a friend who believes in Avalokiteśvara — he's also a bodhisattva's medium — said he'd take me.

Rinpoche: He says when it comes to handling conditions, he's more adept.

Devotee: Thank you, Rinpoche.

Rinpoche: Good luck.If you want to chant Vajrasattva Hundred-Syllable Mantra, you need to find a guru to give you empowerment and oral transmission.

Disciple: Vajrayāna requires lineage transmission before you may chant.