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Hi everyone. I often get asked questions such as, “I keep getting reoccurring bad dreams and they really affect my sleep, and the quality of my waking hours. I’m not able to drive, work, cook, or do whatever I need to do coherently because I’m tired from not being able to sleep throughout the night. Sometimes I can sleep seven, eight, nine hours, but it’s not all the way through because I keep having reoccurring nightmares”.

These nightmares may come from some kind of trauma we have had many, many years ago and it’s resurfacing. The reoccurring nightmares can come from fears that we have now or some feelings of insecurity, or sometimes we can even have nightmares because we feel guilty about something we should be doing but we haven’t done yet. They are many reasons for that. So, sometimes it can just be we have unresolved issues in our mind. And rarely, but it also can happen, we have supernatural disturbances.

We may have gone to a cemetery, a mortuary, a funeral, visited a place with negative energy, or perhaps someone hexed us. It could be many, many reasons that we’re having these negative dreams.

Whatever it is, if we have deep-seated issues, problems, bad memories or traumas, we should seek professional help, a psychologist or somebody who can talk to us. I mean, people who are professionally trained. Going to see a therapist or psychologist does not mean we’re unstable, it’s that they have the training to unlock things in our minds that we are not able to unlock for whatever reasons.

Meanwhile, if we’re having these issues temporarily, we can seek the help of reciting mantras before we go to sleep. Such as the mantra of Dorje Shugden.

The Dorje Shugden mantra is very effective if we put our trust into it and we simply think to ourselves, “I wish to have a good sleep to refresh my body, I wish my body to be healthy, and I wish my body to be fit, and I wish my body can serve others. And that if I’m sleepy during the day I may be accident-prone that may harm others, so I want to avoid that. And because of that, I wish to have a very good sleep to refresh my body. And please protect me from these kind of dreams.”

So if we can think like that very strongly, and we should think that everybody else who has disturbing dreams cannot get a good sleep, may they also be blessed, may they also be protected and empowered to have a healthy sleep, a healthy body and a productive healthy day.

After this, we should think like that strongly. So, we should think for ourselves and for others, may everybody have a productive and restful sleep so we can have a productive day.

Some of us fly airplanes, some of us drive lorries and trucks, some of us are mothers who take care of kids, or school teachers, professors, some of us are cooks, some of us are waiters, some of us are CEOs… we’re all kinds of things. With everything in life, we need to have a clear mind, a rested body, be coherent and be alert; and this requires sleep.

Therefore, it is very good to chant the Dorje Shugden mantra at night, one round on your rosary. A rosary is a 108 or it doesn’t have to be precisely 108. Whether you’re a Buddhist or you’re not a Buddhist it doesn’t make a difference. You can be any religion and chant this mantra, you can be no religion and chant this mantra. The power of this mantra is dependent on the compassion of the source. The source is Dorje Shugden who has compassion and protective abilities. He is seen as an angel of protective force by many from Tibet.

So, therefore, protective angel in the English, we can recite his mantra and it doesn’t depend on who we are, what we are, what we profess to be, or what religion we are for him to help us because compassion has no bounds. Compassion has no prejudice, compassion has no bias, compassion has no boundaries.

Some people in some religions ignorantly say, “Unless you convert to their religion, then their God or their divinity or their version of God is not going to help you, protect you and save you.”

I don’t agree with that. I feel anything divine, or divinity, or powerful is compassionate. Their power, divinity and being above us, they have the ability to protect and bless us depending on the level of their compassion.

Therefore, the divinity, or God, or deity that is not compassionate and biased, their very basis of divinity is gone. Hence, I don’t think we should convert people or tell people they have to be in a certain religion. I think we should just teach people methods from all religions to whatever suits them and whatever is their affinity to help them with their particular problem.

So, when you recite mantras that derive from Buddhism… yes, it comes from Buddhism, but no you don’t have to be a Buddhist, knowing you don’t have to convert, you don’t have to be a certain religion. Remember, compassion of the enlightened beings in Buddhism is not dependent on whether you believe in them or not. It is dependent on you needing help and they have a special ability to help. So, you can recite the mantra before you go to sleep, and you can see over a few days, a week or two weeks your sleep will become better.

If you are travelling in a certain supernatural area that… I’ve come across many people who come to me and tell me they’ve been in hotels where the cabinet opened by itself, or when they turn off the water in the bathroom it turns on by itself, they hear banging, or somebody touches them in the middle of the night. I hear that all the time and they don’t know what to do.

Same thing, when you come across a supernatural disturbance that disturbs your sleep or when you are travelling or in any situation, whether you’re driving down a lonely road, whether you’re going to a house that you’re not familiar with, or you’re staying in a hotel that is very old that has some history, doesn’t matter, or you’re simply at home and you want to go to sleep and you’re not able to, then you recite Dorje Shugden mantra one round on your rosary or more depending on your time, relax, and visualize white lights coming from Dorje Shugden and protecting and blessing you, and clearing and chasing away any obstacles.

Now, for some of us who may see supernatural things in our rooms, we can chant the mantra and bless the supernatural being that if they are negative because they are negative, or they want to harm us because they are unhappy – they died in anger, or they have issues that were not resolved, so they are unhappy – we need to generate compassion towards supernatural beings who are harmful.

When we generate compassion and we recite the mantra not to hurt them but to bless them, they can feel its energy. And most of the time they will go away, they will stop bothering you. So, you don’t recite them to say, “Go away and stop bothering me.” You recite to say, “I bless you. May you be free from your existence as a harmful being. May you be free from harming others. May you have peace. I send you love and peace, although you’re so angry and you’re harmful at the moment.” Then you recite the Dorje Shugden mantra.

The Dorje Shugden mantra can be used for protection for sleep, for protection when you are travelling, for protection when you’re in places that are afflicted with negative energy or negative beings.

You try it. It costs you nothing, there’s no commitment, there’re no promises, there’s nothing. You just recite it. There are two versions of which you can recite the Dorje Shugden mantra. I will give you the version that was taught to me by my root teacher, His Holiness Kyabje Zong Rinpoche when I was 18 years old, over 30 years ago. And the mantra is:

Om Benza Wiki Bitana Soha.
Om Benza Wiki Bitana Soha.
Om Benza Wiki Bitana Soha.
Om Benza Wiki Bitana Soha.

Om is O, M; the second one is B as in boy, E, N as in Nancy, Z, A, Benza; Wiki is W, I, K, I; and then B again as in boy, I, T, A, N as in Nancy, A; and Soha, S, O, H, A.

Om, Benza, Wiki, Bitana, Soha.
Om, Benza, Wiki, Bitana, Soha.

Try it, it will definitely benefit you and will definitely protect you, and may you have a restful good sleep, and I hope this answers a lot of people’s questions.

(Prayer)… Thank you. May you have peace, happiness, long life and productivity.

This transcript has been edited for clarity and ease of understanding.

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