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Reciting the Mantra of Medicine
Buddha brings many benefits, wordly and spiritual.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
said:"Medicine Buddha is called 'encompassing all the buddhas'. This means
that offering the seven-limb practice is the same as offering the seven limbs to
numberless buddhas, so one accumulates numberless inconceivable merits like
limitless sky.
"Reciting Medicine Buddha mantra has inconceivable merit. Manjushri requested to reveal in front of the "Eight Gone to Bliss Ones" (Guru Shakyamuni Buddha and the Seven Medicine Buddhas), the special mantra that makes the Eight Gone to Bliss Ones quickly actualise the prayer they made in the past: to actualise sentient beings' happiness by attaining the path to enlightenment and pacifying various problems,for them to see all the buddhas, and for all their wishes to be quickly fulfilled; for the sentient beings of the five degen erations who have small merit and who are possessed and overwhelmed by various diseases and spirit harms.
"During that time, all the Eight Gone to Bliss Ones in one voice taught the mantra. Therefore, if one recites that mantra every day one will always be paid attention by the buddhas and bodhisattvas, they will guide you. Vajrapani, owner of the secrecy, and the Four Guardians will always protect and guide you. All your negative karmas will be pacified and you will never be born in the three lower realms. Even just hearing the names of the Eight Gone to Bliss Ones and reciting them pacifies all the disease and spirit harms, even spirit harms which become a condition for disease; and all your wishes are fulfilled.
"This is just a brief explanation of the benefits of the Medicine Buddha practice. This practice is especially good if you are helping others, especially if you are doing healing work it helps you to be more accurate and beneficial. You will receive much support, not only from the Eight Gone to Bliss Ones but from the four clairvoyant devas. These devas help you diagnose and understand the right method to heal, they are associated with the Eight Gone to Bliss Ones.
"If one doesn't get the recitation
of Medicine Buddha practice done it is a greater loss than losing trillions of
dollars. In terms of the benefits of the practice, one has missed out, lost
trillions of dollars. "
Namo Gurubya
The method
for making requests to the assembly of Seven Medecine Gurus
Going for refuge
and Generating Bodhicitta
Until I attain enlightenment I respectfully go
for refuge
To the Guru, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
To attain buddhahood
for the welfare of all living beings
I shall make requests to the Seven
Sugatas. (3x)
Visualizing the Seven
Tathagatas
On the crown of my head sits the Tathagata 'Medicine Guru'.
His body is blue, his right hand in the mudra of supreme giving holds an Arura plant and his left hand in the mundra of meditative equipoise holds a bowl filled with medecine nectar.
On his crown is the Tathagata 'King of Clear Knowing'.
His body is red, his right hand is in the mudra of supreme giving and his left hand is in the mudra of meditative equipoise.
On his crown is the Tathagata 'Melodious Ocean of Dharma Proclaimed'.
His body is light red and both his hands are in the mudra of expounding Dharma.
On his crown is the Tathagata 'Supreme Glory Free from Sorrow'.
His body is pale red and both his hands are in the mudra of meditative equipoise.
On his crown is the Tathagata 'Stainless Excellent Gold'.
His body is golden and both his hands are in the mudra of expounding Dharma.
On his crown is the Tathagata 'King of Melodious Sound'.
His body is golden, his right hand is in the mudra of supreme giving and his left hand is in the m udra of meditative equipoise.
On his crown is the Tathagata 'Glorious Renown of Excellent Signs'.
His body is golden, his right hand is in the mudra of granting protection and his left hand is in the mudra of meditative equipoise.
They all wear the three robes of a monk and are adorned with the major and minor marks. They sit in the vajra posture on seats of lotus and moon.
Offering the Seven Limbs.
Merely through the touch of the smallest part of your supreme medicinal plant you cool the fires of the deepest hell, transforming them into lotus pools. To you, Assembly of Protectors of impure beings, with my body, speech and mind, respectfully I prostrate.
I offer a vast collection of offerings, both actually set out and emanated through the power of mantra, wisdom and imagination. I confess all negativities and downfalls, rejoice in virtue, beseech you to remain and request you to teach. I dedicate these virtues to great enlightenment.
O Blessed One, Tathagata, Foe
Destroyer, Completely Perfect Buddha,
Great King, Glorious Renown of
Excellent Signs, to you I prostrate, make
offerings and go to for refuge
(x7)
The Tathagata 'Glorious Renown of
Excellent Sign' melts into light and
dissolve into the Tathagata 'King of
Melodious Sound'.
O Blessed One, Tathagata, Foe
Destroyer, Completely Perfect Buddha,
King of Melodious Sound, Brillant
Radiance of Skill, Fully adorned with
Jewels, Moon and Lotus, to you I
prostrate, make offerings and go for
refuge. (x7)
The Tathagata 'King of Melodious
Sound 'melts into light and dissolves into
the Tathagata 'Stainless Excellent
Gold'.
O Blessed One, Tathagata, Foe
Destroyer, Completely Perfect Buddha,
Stainless Exc ellent Gold, Jewel
Radiance who Accomplish your Vows, to
you I prostrate, make offerings and go
for refuge. (x7)
The Tathagata 'Stainless Excellent
Gold' melts into light and dissolves into
the Tathagata 'Supreme Glory Free
from Sorrow'.
O Blessed One, Tathagata, Foe
Destroyer, Completely Perfect Buddha,
Supreme Glory Free from sorrow, to you
I prostrate, make offerings and
go for refuge. (x7)
The Tathagata 'Supreme Glory Free
from Sorrow' melts into light and
dissolves into the Tathagata 'Melodious
Ocean of Dharma Proclaimed'.
O Blessed One, Tathagata, Foe
Destroyer, Completely Perfect Buddha,
Melodious Ocean of Dharma Proclaimed,
to you I prostrate, make
offerings and go for refuge. (x7)
The
Tathagata 'Melodious Ocean of Dharma Proclaimed' melts into light
and
dissolves into the Tathagata 'King of Clear Knowing'.
O Blessed One, Tathagata, Foe
Destroyer, Completely Perfect Buddha,
King of Clear Knowing, who Fully Enjoy
a Supreme Wisdom of an Ocean
of Dharma, to you I prostrate, make offerings
and go for refuge. (x7)
The Tathagata' King of Clear
Knowing' melts into light and dissolves into
the Tathagata 'Medicine
Guru'.
O Blessed One, Tathagata, Foe
Destroyer, Completely Perfect Buddha,
Medecine Guru, Great King with the
Radiance of a Lapis Jewel, to you I
prostrate, make offerings and go for
refuge. (x7)
The Tathagata 'King of Medicine'
melts into light and dissolves into me. All
sickness, spirits, negativities
and obstructions that afflict me are purified
and I become the Buddha,
Medicine Guru.
Recitation of
Mantra
At my heart on a moon is a letter HUM surrounder by the mantra
rosary.
TAYATHA OM BEKANDZYAI BEKANDZYAI MAHA
BEKANDZYAI BEKANDZYAI
RANDZA SAMUGATE SOHA
Dedication
Through
my virtues from prostrating, making offerings,
and reciting the names of the
Assembly of Seven Sugatas,
May the supreme prayers that they previously
made,
The two sets of eight, the four sets of four and the twelve
promises,
Immediately ripen upon myself and all other livin g
beings.
(This practice was composed by Panzug Dharmabhadra by condensing the words of Tartse Namkha Palzang and kusali Dharmavajra.)
May all virtue and excellence increase!