Late last month, my youngest sister admitted to hospital for an operation. I called her the day after her operation, her energy was so low that i began to worry. I telephoned both Khenpo and Tulku to request for blessings chant for her. Then i mailed her 3 CDs of Buddhist Chants : Guru Rinpoche Chant, Vajrasattva 100 Syllabes and Medicine Buddha Chant. More than a week later, i telephoned Tulku and he asked if she was recovered? Immediately i called her at KK, and she sounded healthy and asked to express 'Thank You' to both Rinpoches. During the week knowing of her health conditions, i found practising the Chenrezig Sadhanna Chant and transferring of merits to sentient beings helped me from mental worries over her health state.
Then later almost for nearly past a week, my body experienced stiffness and rashes - skin sensitive reaction 'resides' on my 2 arm's joint (a sign that many termed due to 'stress' conventionally?) . After the 3rd day, i went to a pharmacist instead go to the panel clinic. The pharmacist advised to take 'Zyrtec' once a day. The first day i took it, the conditions of the rashes seemed improved. Happily i went to inform her it worked. The following 2 days, the rashes came back and became more serious. Thus i stopped taking the medication. Reflecting if it is the body was protesting - a sign it needs rest? Further, i reflected: we conceptually said that 'this is my body' , 'this body is 'mine', but why 'i' have no control over the body? - it suffers from sickness, old age and finally death! - our bodies are experiencng the First Noble Truth - The Noble Truth of Suffering, expounded by the Sakyamuni Buddha more than 2,500 year ago! Like a doctor, the Buddha's teachings are reminding me: you are sick, there is cause of this suffering, the cessation of it, and the path leading to the cessation of suffering!
Then i recalled the story a friend's son at the KK Dzogchen center, suffering from skin problem since young and no medication seemed to work for him for years. Then a good friend recommended her mother to bring this son to join one of the Chenrezig Saddhana Puja at the KK Dzogchen Center -at that time the center was in the old house premises. After the puja, later his skin problem disappeared in a miraculous way - no medication. He then requested a copy of the puja book to recite at his home. After months, his skin problem has never re-appear until today - thus they become our friends.
Thus i did my Buddhist Prayers: Buddhist Puja & Buddhist Mantras. Feeling that these mental medicine may help my body to recover naturally. Recalling Visakha Day is coming, thus after the Chenrezig Saddhana Chant, I did the Sakyamuni Mantra, followed by the Medicine Buddha Chant. Later i felt i should finish reading the last volume (volume III) of the manuscript of Konde Rinpoche. The texts described the 'Bardo" states - to a reader such ignorant like me, it is very 'deep' teaching of Vajrayanna, specifically the Dzogchen practice. -But i felt that this manuscript needs to be publish as soon as possible - though it has been a long journey Rinpoche commissioned its translation to English in India. As i contemplated on his compassion to share this deep aspect of Buddhist teachings, my tears welled my heart.......
Later in the afternoon, i felt extremely tired. i went to sleep, and when i woke up, i found four hours more had passed. I examined my then 'rashed' arms - and found the rashes had disappered, at least the itchness subsided [need another day or two to check if its recurrence?!] My heart was inspired - i went to my shrine which has a small image of Medicine Buddha on it (a gift from Konde Rinpoche), i chanted the Medicine Buddha Chant for 108 times:
'TEYATHA OM BEGANZE BEGANZE MAHA BEGANZE RADZA SAMUNGHATE SOHA"
By this practise, May the merits be shared with all sentient beings.
但愿众生得离苦，愿之众生得安乐,
但愿众生得离苦，愿之众生往生佛净土
