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Medicine buddha mantra

It is no coincidence that the words "medication" and "meditation" are only one letter different. They both originate from the same Latin root word, medeor, implying "to recover or to make whole."

In the West, our medical focus is on the external-- on the curing of physical signs-- while Eastern customs focus more on the internal, that is, attending to the psychological causes of illness. It is our good fortune to be living at a time when we can access the very best of both worlds.

Medication Buddha meditation is a healing practice cherished by many in the Mahayana Buddhist custom. In that sutra, we are informed the story of a bodhisattva, Medicine Buddha, who made twelve swears about how he would help living beings after attaining knowledge.

When we practice Medicine Buddha meditation, we do not do so to change traditional medical treatment, but to match it. The practice purifies and removes the underlying, karmic causes of illness and cultivates the causes for holistic wellness.

Medicine Buddha is as much about mind as it is body. Empirical evidence shows that when we practice meditation, it triggers a self-repair mechanism in our own bodies. We stop producing cortisol and adrenalin, and instead enhance the production of immune-boosting endorphins and seratonin, equipping our body versus invasive bacteria, infections, and other imbalances. These changes also promote favorable frame of minds.

A component of confidence in the practice is useful. Medication Buddha meditation has actually been practiced for thousands of years.

Resonance may also account for the powerful impact of Medicine Buddha practice. On one level, we may be sitting alone in a room meditating, however in a different way we are resonating with the many hundreds of thousands of people who have actually done precisely the exact same thing prior to us. We're gaining from their experience and adding to the experience of those who follow.

When doing this practice, it's important to keep an awareness that you are not a naturally existent person asking a naturally existing buddha to get rid of a naturally existent disease. This would be bit different from a theistic or shamanistic technique. It is specifically due to the fact that nothing has any true, separate, or independent existence-- including health problem-- that practices like this have power.

We conjure up Medicine Buddha through using specific images and sound, reaching out to the awareness of those endless beings who have actually already obtained enlightenment and who have selected to manifest Medicine Buddha's qualities.

The minds of buddhas are understood to be all-seeing and all-knowing. Buddhas respond to their mantra in the same way we react when we hear our name mentioned, so we pretty much have a buddha on speed dial when we use their mantra. To borrow a metaphor from the late Tibetan teacher Gelek Rinpoche, when we recite a buddha's mantra we are providing a hoop through which they can hook us into their energetic influence.


Note that Medicine Buddha is a Kriya tantra practice. As such, it is useful that you first have some familiarity with the sutra tradition, along with receive proper initiations and teachings from an appropriately certified instructor, if you want to completely embody the precious Medicine Buddha lineage.

How to Practice Medicine Buddha Meditation
GETTING GOING
Find a quiet location to practice meditation and presume the optimal meditation posture for you. Take refuge in the Buddha, dharma, and sangha, and after that invest a short time establishing your inspiration in a heartfelt way. You might believe or say: "By this practice of Medicine Buddha, may I (or the being for whom I am practicing) be cleansed of all illness, discomfort, and suffering, and enjoy robust good health, and obtain complete and perfect enlightenment to lead all other beings to this exact same state."

medicine buddha mantra meaning BUDDHA TO YOUR PRESENCE
Envision Medicine Buddha sitting, looking at you. With his left hand he holds a bowl of healing nectars, and with his right a medication plant.

I advise having an image of Medicine Buddha in a place where you'll see it regularly throughout the day. That will make it simpler for you to "see" Medicine Buddha when your eyes are shut. After all, the more familiar you are with anything, the simpler it is for you to visualize it in your mind. (You can quickly picture your front door, right?) Even if your visualization is not excellent at first, simply imagining a blob of blue light is sufficient.

What's actually crucial is to have a really real sense that Medicine Buddha is actually there. That if you looked up, or opened your eyes, you would see him. Try and cultivate the feeling that you remain in the presence of a genuinely amazing being. If you've ever had the privilege of being in an audience with someone such as the Dalai Lama, you will know that there is a palpable sensation to his being there. Try to imagine this exact same energetic presence with Medicine Buddha.

MAKE YOUR DEMAND
Ask Medicine Buddha to eliminate discomfort, purify disease, and/or rebalance or restore your health (or that of the being for whom you are practicing). You don't require accurate understanding of the anatomical changes required. What matters here is objective.

Visualize that Medicine Buddha willingly reacts to your demand. Immediately, healing blue lights and nectars emanate from the bowl in his lap, concerned the crown of your head, and flow down, filling your body, or that of the being for whom you are practicing. You can direct the lights and nectars to specific parts of the body, however there is such an abundance of them, that they will fill your whole being anyhow.

Think of that this process instantly, entirely, and completely removes and purifies all illness, discomfort, and suffering and-- importantly-- the causes of illness, pain, and suffering. In addition, the causes of holistic well-being of mind and body stream in with limitless abundance.

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