Medicine Buddha
Learn about Medicine Buddha, the buddha of healing and medicine, whose practices are also useful at the time of death.
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Clarifying the practice
Learning to work with anxiety. Questions from retreatants on visualization in the sadhana and about…
View PostVisualizing the Medicine Buddha
The types of meditation and how to visualize the Medicine Buddha.
View PostEqualizing self and others
The nine points of the meditation to equalize ourselves and others.
View PostLoosening our identities
A short meditation on the Medicine Buddha and a challenge to question the identities that…
View PostShantideva on equalizing self and others
How to meditate on equalizing self and others. A commentary on Chapter 8 of Shantideva's…
View PostConventional and ultimate truth
While suffering is empty of inherent existence, it still exists conventionally and must be addressed.…
View PostVisualization and mantra recitation
The psychological effect of doing the visualization of the Medicine Buddha and reciting his mantra
View PostOvercoming self-centeredness
How to identify self-centeredness, considering its disadvantages, and why we should give it up.
View PostMedicine Buddha’s unshakeable resolves
The first four of the great vows or unshakeable resolves that the Medicine Buddha made.
View PostThe benefits of cherishing others
The advantages of cherishing others more than ourselves. The continuing teaching on Shantideva's "Engaging in…
View PostThe Medicine Buddha’s unshakeable resolves, co...
The 5th to 12th great vows of the Medicine Buddha.
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