I often used to think, “How does turning the they should use this extremely powerful and become practice?” I had meaningful method of healing. this question in my mind, simply because I was I would like to emphasize that every prayer wheel ignorant as to the benefits of the practice. I didn’t can be used by sick people for healing. This know how beneficial it is in terms of purification. practice is very practical and very meaningful. A Just touching and turning a prayer wheel brings prayer wheel makes the place very holy and pre- incredible purification and accumulates unbelievable cious, like a . . One day I saw one old text with a short explanation of the of the prayer wheel Visualizations to do while turning the wheel or practice and a few lines on how to visualize and turning and circumambulating at the same time: meditate when you do the practice. After reading this, I developed faith that the practice had valid Visualize light beams coming from the references and was meaningful. in the prayer wheel, illuminating you and puri- fying you of all your disease and the causes of If you have a mani prayer wheel in your house, disease, your negative thoughts and the imprints your house is the same as the Potala, the pure land of these left on your mental continuum. Then of the Compassion Buddha. Simply touching a visualize the light illuminating all sentient beings prayer wheel brings great purification of negative and purifying all their sufferings, as well as their and obscurations. Turning a prayer wheel negative karmas and obscurations. containing 100 million mani padme hum mantras accumulates the same merit as having Or you can visualize that beams are emitted from recited 100 million om mani padme hums. In the mantras and, like a vacuum sucking up dust, that few seconds, you perform so much power- they hook all the disease and spirit harms and, ful purification and accumulate so much merit. most importantly, the cause of disease, which is Turning the prayer wheel once is the same as negative karmas and obscurations. All these are having done many years of retreat. Prayer absorbed or sucked into the prayer wheel. While stop harm from spirits and other beings and also reciting five or ten malas of the , visualize stop disease. Anyone with a disease such as AIDS purifying yourself in this way. or cancer, whether or not they have any under- At the end recite some mantra while visualizing standing of Dharma, can use the prayer wheel for that the beams emitted from the prayer wheel meditation and healing. purify all the sufferings and obscurations of the If someone with AIDS, cancer or some other dis- sentient beings of the six realms. These absorb ease meditated on the visualizations below for as into the prayer wheel and all sentient beings, many hours as possible, there would definitely be including you, are then liberated, actualizing some effect. I know quite a few people who have the whole path and becoming the Compassion completely recovered from terminal cancer through Buddha. meditation. Even though the person might not Excerpted from a teaching given by Zopa at Land of Medicine Buddha, June 1994. This version shortened from the know about Dharma, about reincarnation or original by Venerable Gyalten Mindrol, FPMT Education Services, ; because they want to have peace of mind June 2010. now and a peaceful death; because they care about having a healthy body and a healthy mind,