Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 44-minute healing workshop, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches that the foundation of all healing lies in transforming the mind through compassion. He explains how ego, anger, and desire generate the stress, depression, and loneliness that afflict us, and how cultivating compassion toward all living beings—without barriers of nationality, belief, or personal relationship—serves as the most powerful medicine for both ourselves and others. He then transmits four specific healing mantras: a compassion mantra, the Vajrapāni mantra (embodying all Buddhas’ power), Medicine Buddha mantra, and Tārā mantra. He illustrates these teachings with the example of Ann Kôm from Canada, who completely recovered from cancer after practising the Vajrapāni mantra and saving animals’ lives. Aimed at practitioners seeking spiritual approaches to healing.
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Teacher: Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1
Collection: y Healing Workshop (Lama Zopa Rinpoche 1)
Date: 1996-10-09
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 44.6 minutes
Words: ~2,195
Hello? Can you hear? So first I’m going to recite some healing mantras. Few different healing mantras that’s normally used to heal, you know, sickness, you know, and then for other problems. And the most important to purify the mind and then this way through the purification of the mind, by purifying the mind then, by making the mind healthy, then you see, create all the success, all the happiness now and future, everything.
So the first one is the extremely powerful healing mantra. The most important, healing the mind by developing compassion. Transforming the mind into compassion. Towards all other living beings without a question of racism or different nationality or colors and so forth without any of this barrier or whether somebody likes you, whether somebody doesn’t like you or love you, doesn’t love you or whatever belief they have, whatever, in spite of that compassion to everyone. Everyone who want happiness, who do not want suffering, and everyone who has, you know, yes, and compassion that wishing everyone from all the sufferings and cause of the sufferings that which is in the mind, and especially to take that responsibility by oneself, not wishing somebody else to do that but using yourself to take that responsibility, so especially that great compassion.
So to heal one’s mind with this great compassion, in that way then able to solve all your problems, able to solve everyone’s problems through your great compassion. Able to bring so much peace and happiness not only in the family members, not only your own friends, but in the whole world, and towards all the living beings, human beings, even the animals, all other living beings that we see and that we don’t see. This is very important. This is healing the ego. This mantra is healing to heal the ego.
You see there’s so much unhappiness, depression, loneliness, these problems. Yes, I think even stress so much of it, it comes from ego. I think it depends not all the stress but depends on the person’s attitude of life. If the attitude of life is ego, self-centered mind, then all the stress for that is coming from the ego. It’s clear.
If the motivation, the attitude of the life, the attitude of doing the job, doing the works, keeping the life busy, if that attitude is ego, desire, attachment, if that attitude is anger, You see, with motivation, anger, you know, then bring something to harm others and then stress, having stress on that. Motivation, desire, clinging to seeing only one’s own happiness, only happiness for oneself, but even that, just this life, just one. The short term very short term happiness for oneself. So how you are then doing activities with that motivation is attachment and desire. Then all the stress that one experiences going through is, you see, came from that, came from that motivation.
Didn’t come from healthy mind, it didn’t come from free mind, it did not come from the renounced mind, it did not come from a renounced mind, did not come from a free mind, did not come from a healthy mind, do not come from peaceful mind. Even the stress that we talk about so much, having stress in their life and how to deal with it, all these things. Generally speaking, it depends on individual person’s life, motivation, but how generally speaking it came from most of us, of us then, general people, it came from ego And they treat, know, ignorance and desire and anger. Those afflicted disturbing thoughts. So therefore now if Therefore, now if the ego is transformed into compassion, know, can others, wishing others free from sufferings and causes, especially to take that on.
So that positive, that healthy mind, that very peaceful mind, even though it’s unbearable, but nature that is peaceful, healthy, you know, as well as loving kindness and not only wishing others to have happiness and cause of happiness but to do that by oneself, especially that. So I think there’s differences. Worry. So worry to one’s own problems. So problems derived from ego, ignorance, desire, anger, so forth.
Nature of that mind, worry that is related with the desire, chemical, desire, all these things, that and compassion, feeling unbearable somebody is suffering. There’s different quality and that is very healthy one. Is a very that nature is even though unbearable, but it’s in nature different people. Yeah. It is very health I say healthy one.
No harm, no danger. So now, first the mantra is especially to see so much of the problems in our life come from, as I mentioned before, come from ego and so much of the harms that we are causing when our mind is falling towards ego, when our mind becomes friend of ego, following the ego. Then you see. Then also following the anger, following the anger, following the desire to support them, those emotional disturbing emotional mind. So, not only disturbing one’s own mental continuum, but disturbing directly or indirectly, harming the not only the family members, not only the people who are around or in our everyday life, but starting from there to many others, harming directly or indirectly, so many other living beings.
Also from life, see, The mind is different phenomena than the body. They’re two separate phenomena. Body is substantial, form, mind is formless. Two completely different, separate phenomena. The body So the body does not continue life to life but the mind, that which is a formless, which nature is a clear, perceiving object, that continues life to life.
So there is this phenomenon how the mind works That’s different from the body. However, we, for the individual, if we do not look after, do not take care of our mind, if we do not improve our mind, if we do not make it better quality, which makes our life better quality, Then there’s danger with this ego and for this emotional, the negative emotional mind, then harm to all other living beings from the life directly or indirectly from life to life like that. So however, by generating compassion, in the place where you can generate compassion with one’s mind, the compassion is the best healer. Best to say. The compassion, best healing.
The mind is the best healer. Person who has such a quality of mind, you know, that’s the most powerful healer. Not only his own problems, but all the problems of all others who are numberless. And that healer can bring happiness, all the happiness within him or her own life and can bring happiness in the life, happiness in the mind of all other living beings. So first I’m going to chant this it can become also a world transformation, receiving the blessing of the mantra.
This is the compassionate fully enlightened beings, the special mantra, the most blessed, most precious one. The compassionate, fully enlightened, being absorbed in within us, everyone and all living beings. Now the next one is that with this also, with this mantra, there have been people who recovered, who healed their cancer with this compassion, I say with this mantra of compassion. Then next one is the mantra of very powerful enlightened being who is embodiment of all the enlightened beings’ power called Vajrapāni. Very first patient with cancer I don’t mean the very first patient in the world.
I’m not talking about that. The first cancer patient that recovered, that I gave this mantra and the first person relating to me, the first person, first patient who completely recovered from cancer. So this that’s very common very powerful even. So blessing of this thing, all times means all the blessing of this mantra. I will tell the stories later.
Power of all the fully enlightened beings and absorbed within us and got all the powers for healing, protection, for life, for healing others and absorbed within every single beings and completely healed, all their sufferings are stopped, problems are stopped. Suffering of the body and mind completely healed. Now, next, another healing mantra. Medicine Buddha. So, again, this most blessed, extremely powerful, healing, enlightened being, this Buddha absorbed within us and all living beings, so we receive all the blessings, all the powers, all the qualities of the holy body, holy speech, holy mind within us and with all of us and all other living beings.
So we got All the qualities that we can help others, that heals our own mind, from all this disturbing emotion mind, That makes the mind healthy, free, peaceful content, fulfilled, so for that fulfillment, so forth, all the qualities that we can all the understandings, perfect understanding and complete compassion, love and kindness towards others, the perfect, complete power to to be able to offer all the to be able to give all the help or all the benefits, all the happiness, not only just not only just healing disease, sicknesses of the body, not all that. It also sicknesses all the sicknesses of the mind and able to give all the happiness to all the living beings. From now on in all our future lives to be healthy, to serve others. So now, one more mantra, one more healing mantra. This is also another very powerful healing for many people.
Many healers, many meditators, many practitioners. So many numberless people, other humans, they are able to stop their problems, able to heal their disease and so forth. So this is a female enlightened being called Tārā. Very quick to grant Success for all the happiness. So the No, I’m going chant this mantra, this female enlightened being’s mantra.
Which also becomes the granting of the receiving the blessing of this female enlightened being, Tārā. That is a female enlightened being. Tārā absorbed within us and all living beings, and so I think all our mind is completely healed from all those disturbing thoughts, ego and so forth, all those things. And fully developed or the mind is transformed into great compassion, the complete compassion towards all living beings and perfect power to be able to do perfect work for all living beings to cause all the happiness to them and complete perfect wisdom, the omniscient mind. So able to have all the powers to be able to do healing, the body and mind, to all other living beings.
Now free them from all the problems, causes of the problem, and bring them in the temporary happiness and all the ultimate happiness. And the highest happiness, the full enlightenment. So first thing is that you mentioned Just some people that I have met and those with cancers recovered by giving meditation, giving mantras. The very first person, there’s one lady in Canada called Ann Kôm. She does forecasting next year’s ideas of the fashion.
So she sells, she does business consultant, counseling the business people, selling the idea of next year in a fashion what people would like to wear, to dress up. So I meet her but through one student, one student wrote me saying that this lady has got cancer and what can be done. So I think maybe I was in Australia or somewhere far this message came from America, so I was somewhere else. So suggested that to recite the second mantra called vajrapani, the fully enlightened being, the vajrapani mantra, and who is the embodiment of all the Buddhas and all the enlightened beings power. So just to recite, So to recite this mantra and just visualize that enlightened being above her crown, let her karma be purified, then save many animals from being killed.
At least equal number of her age. So She did that and I think maybe I don’t remember I don’t remember one hundred percent but after one, I think maybe after one or two or three months, something around that. Then I heard that her cancer was completely recovered. So she did exactly message what I sent. She did the recitation mantra meditation and then she saved a lot of animals from saved the life of many animals from being killed.
So even after she was completely recovered from cancer, I think she continued saving animals. It benefited so much, I think, probably also she enjoys that. So she continued saving the live animal. So now, the one reason why this worked, why this mantra cured cancer, the reason is that this disease in the explanation, in the teachings, in the Buddhist teachings and also in the medical text, The teaching which came from Buddha, however you see, individual text also explained, both of these explained in the teaching and also medical which talks about how the disease are happening. So anyway, for the cancer, apart, many of these diseases are regarded due to there is a condition, there are other beings who cause the cancer, who become the condition for cancer, not as the main cause but as the condition of this.
There are additional explanations they are causing cancer. Besides even their external things, sun or something that has some phenomena. Even though something’s explained, even though