#medicine buddhas

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Everywhere in the world are people with pain. And in this time, there is more than we have seen in generations. Yet this at the very core of the human experience. So at this time, let us focus on our own pain, and that of so many who are experiencing this. May they be healed and their struggles recognized and acted upon.

[Red Pine (translator) :: Bill Porter (author)]

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“Ultimately, you will find that if life is the real meditation practice, then everything and everybody in your life becomes your teacher, and every moment and occurrence is an opportunity for practice and for seeing beneath the surface appearance of things.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn: Arriving at Your Own Door

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The only way is to enjoy your life. Even though you are practicing zazen, counting your breath like a snail, you can enjoy your life, maybe much better than making a trip to the moon. That is why we practice zazen. The kind of life you have is not so important. The most important thing is to be able to enjoy your life without being fooled by things. 

– Shunryu Suzuki

[dharmafox]

Any musing and analysis of the Medicine Seller in Ayakashi's Bake Neko vs. Mononoke 👀?

Well, I think there's a pretty strong implication that the Medicine Seller's personality changed as a result of the events of "Bakeneko." In the series he's a lot less friendly with humans, a lot less interested in saving people, and a lot more emotionally subdued. Given some of the stuff he says and does in "Umi Bozu," I think he was seriously considering giving up the whole mononoke-slaying game for a while there.

He dodges Kayo's response by talking about how he can't possibly slay all the ayakashi in the world, but I'm pretty sure he knew what she meant by "an ayakashi or something." He also says later that he's "still a Medicine Seller," like he's thinking he might not be much longer.

There's no doubt he was powerfully affected by the Bakeneko. He said so himself.

There's a reason the final arc is another "Bakeneko" with the cast being reincarnated versions of the people in the first one. I think he needed to find that second Bakeneko and put it to rest before he could move on.

What interests me most these days is how much more similar he is in "Bakeneko" to the second Medicine Seller in Karakasa. They're both more expressive, more invested in people. It makes me wonder if all Medicine Sellers are "born" with similar personalities, with those personalities becoming more individual in response to the people and circumstances they encounter. In that case, maybe the second Medicine Seller would have become very similar to the first if he'd ended up in the same circumstances. I'm interested to see how his personality will develop as he encounters the second mononoke in the movies, and the third.

Since all Medicine Sellers come from Shuuga, which is similar to a "collective unconscious" and exists outside of time and space, maybe the Medicine Sellers aren't even individuals until they're among humans. Maybe it's being among humans that makes them individuals, and then their original natures come to reflect the natures of the people they encounter. In that sense, any Medicine Seller could easily become any other Medicine Seller, if placed in the right set of circumstances.

So maybe the Medicine Seller in "Bakeneko" could be seen as a link between his original nature and who he is in the series. He's in a state of "unbecoming" whoever—or whatever—he was before and becoming who he will be next: the kind of Medicine Seller the world needs next, the one who can take out the Zashiki Warashi, the Umi Bozu, the Nopperabou, the Nue, and finally the second Bakeneko.

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[renegade-hierophant]

Medicine Buddha Mantra

namo bhagavate bhaiṣajyaguru vaiḍūryaprabharājāya tathāgatāya arhate samyaksambuddhāya tadyathā oṁ bhaiṣajye bhaiṣajye mahābhaiṣajya samudgate svāhā

homage to the blessed medicinal teacher, to the king of jewel-like radiance, to the one who is like that, the worthy, the fully awakened one, thus: oṁ healer, healer, great healer, appear! well said

[mahayanapilgrim]

Medicine Buddha

He is thought to ease mental and bodily suffering and lead beings to enlightenment. His duty as a divine healer is symbolized by his customary depiction in a calm blue form, holding a dish of medicine and a myrobalan plant.

[divinum-pacis]

A new Medicine Buddha statue from Vietnam is unveiled at the Blue Lotus Temple in Woodstock, Ill., Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024. (Photo by Mark Regan)

[wormsngods]

Was reading The Original Sources of the Quran and it made me think about just how prevalent the Buddha is in religious traditions. To hindus he is an avatar of Vishnu, to muslims he is the sufi Ibrahim ibn Adham (or Dhul Kifl if you're of a more modernist bend), to christians he is saint josaphat. However it only makes sense considering his belief system brings no rival god or pantheon whatsoever to challenge the residents deities in the process of syncretization.

Anyhoo, passed my forensic midterm, have a pharmacology midterm coming up. Weather was breezy. Got biryani for my girlfriend and we had a study date in her university. Told her about how my mother was planning her wedding dress and then lay under the stars and talked about trans people.

Read a hadith i qudsi where God sent a righteous israelite to hell and a sinner to heaven because the former threatened the latter with being so far gone as to never be forgiven by God. This proved an act of disbelief as the righteous man was doubting God's unlimited grace and mercy which put him outside the pale of faith whereas the sinner held on to his faith and was forgiven his sins.

Made me realise that ultimately good deeds are done for God's pleasure and the judgement of heaven and hell is a medley of Grace, Justice and Wrath which our human minds can never understand. Felt hopeful about my own chances of making it into the shadow of His throne.

[dpalden]

Buddha of Healing

[crazyskirtlady]

The Medicine Buddha Mantra

Chanted for physical, mental, spiritual and emotional healing of all types. To cleanse negative karma and attain Buddha consciousness and enlightenment. To help relieve the world and everyone in it from suffering.

Sanskrit Pronunciation:

Tad-ya-ta Om Bhai-sha-jye Bhai-sha-jye Maha Bhai-sha-jye Ra-ja Sa-mud-ga-te Sva-ha

Tibetan Pronunciation:

Tad-ya-ta: Om Be-kan-dze Be-kan-dze Ma-ha Be-kan-dze Ra-dza Sa-mung-ga-te So-ha

Meaning:

Tayatha: become like this Om: the self of here and now, body mind, Bhaisajye/Bekandze: healing, medicine, physician Maha: great Raja: to cure, king of Samundgate: come from medicine, ocean of medicine/healing

translated as:

Hail! Appear, O Healer, O Healer, O Great Healer, O King of Healing!

or:

I am now Healed! Healed! Greatly Healed! Cured in the Ocean of Medicine!

or even:

I Become now as The Medicine Buddha! The Physician! The Great Healer! The King of all Medicine!

Long form prayer:

Medicine Buddha Dharani: Eliminating All the Suffering and Afflictions of Sentient Beings!

namo bhagavate bhaiṣajyaguru

vaiḍūryaprabhārājāya tathāgatāya

arhate samyaksaṃbuddhāya tadyathā

oṃ bhaiṣajye bhaiṣajye bhaiṣajya samudgate svāhā

translated as thus:

Homage to the Blessed One, The Master of Healing, The King of Lapis Lazuli Radiance, The One Thus-Come, The Worthy One, The Fully and Perfectly Awakened One, Hail! Appear, O Healer, O Healer, O Great Healer, O King of Healing!

[dharmakarmasherab]

🕉❤️‍🔥I've slowly been learning my lineage. When I discovered this, I resonated deeply inhuge respect. Humility. Equanimity. My name Dharma, which was given to me at birth, means The Teachings of The Buddha/ The Path to Enlightenment. When I was five years old, I took my Buddhist vows, and I took refuge in the Dharma, Sangha, and Buddha. At the age of 12, I received my first Tibetan Buddhist name gifted to me from my root guru; Lama Choje Yeshe Losal Rinpoche. Karma Sherab; Action/Deed and Wisdom. I am a part of the Karma Kagyu lineage. 🙏🏽🕉

[serenityreikiclinic]

Truly~

[ayahuascadiaries]

It’s very possible that you might encounter supremely enlightened entities while tripping, especially on tryptamines such as dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and even LSD. They may also appear to be extremely powerful and even omniscient, so it’s extremely easy to see how you could become enthralled by them. The fourteenth-century*22Bardo T’ ödol warns us again and again about such Buddhas as these, telling us that, while they are, in fact, just as wise and compassionate as they seem, they are nothing but the deepest nature of ourselves, being unrecognized emanations of our own Buddha-nature. We see them as separate because of our ingrained habit of not recognizing our innate enlightened nature, and they are the reason that the Zen koan told us to kill the Buddha on the road when we met him. While this Buddha-nature is the real deal, we still insist on seeing him as other, not us; somehow different and “on the road.”

Quote from the book Psychedelic Buddhism: a User's Guide to Traditions, Symbols, and Ceremonies of Mike Crowley

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[Red Pine (translator) :: Bill Porter (author)]

Medicine Buddha day

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don't let the plum blossom guard cut your tongues, sparrows!

梅守に舌切らるるなむら雀

ume mori ni shita kiraruruna mura suzume

In a fairy tale an old woman cuts a sparrow's tongue for pecking at her starch. The guard is a similar mean old grouch.

Kobayashi Issa :: @issa_haiku

[narasimhabhakti]

[renegade-hierophant]

Just a chill Buddhist mantra to heal all of your ills 🙏

[mahayanapilgrim]

MANDALA OF MEDICINE BUDDHA

by Flera Birmane

"Sangye Menla" - the Medicine Buddha in a mandala of healing for our times.

May all beings know ultimate healing - of body, mind, and emotions - within the taste of the heart of awakening.

Where all that ails has know choice but to subside in its true nature.

TEYATHA OM BAIKANJYE BAIKANJYE MAHA BAIKANJYE RAJA

SAMUDGATE SVAHA