Medicine Buddha: A Transdual Self-model Meditation to Support Healthcare Practitioners J. Sacamano & D. Paproski Journal of Religion and Health volume 59, pages1597–1609(2020)Cite this article 153 Accesses Metrics details Abstract There is increasing awareness of the deleterious effect of the current work demands on a wide range of health professionals and of the benefits of contemplative...
Read MoreHuman life is ultimately very brief and precious. We have no way of knowing how long it will last. While our current pandemic is causing so much suffering, it is also a reminder that whatever time we are in, that is the best time to practice. And with Medicine Buddha, not only do we connect with the ultimate need to be on a path to full awakening, but by way of what is known as co-dependent...
Read MoreI had a powerful practice session last night that I would like to share. I was in a hospital room with an old friend who was dying. I got word this morning that he had died over night. I understand that in the past, meditators would spend time with dying people as a regular practice. I remember how Mingyur Rinpoche mentioned being with death as memento mori in his book, In Love with Life. Being...
Read MoreThe universe of health is within us all and at the same time beyond all boundaries. This big sense of health is Buddha Nature, which is our basic nature, the nature of just being awake. When we know Menla, we know this ultimate health in both a personal and a cosmic way. Just as this big health is natural to us, the tools we use to realize Menla—inspiration, mantra and visualization—are part...
Read MoreMedicine Buddha is real, meaningful natural healing. That is, no external agent better than what is already present in the universe and in ourselves is involved in this healing process. We may get outside help in traditional or more modern ways, but that help is understood to simply be a support for our own inner health to meet the natural health of the universe in whatever seeming problem we...
Read MoreIt is a normal human reaction to see problems as just problems, just obstacles or tests we must overcome. However, there may be more to it than that. Besides being painful at times, problems help us see the real nature of life, a process that is always moving to and past us, that cannot be grasped, and that we would do well to appreciate and love as best we can when we have it. Further,...
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