Tibetan Buddhist Medicine is a traditional holistic system of healing that goes back at 
least 2500 years. It evaluates symptoms, looks for the causes of disease, and incorporates herbs and foods as its medicine. Tibetan Buddhist Medicine’s herbal medicine cabinet includes plants, metals, gemstones, and even boiling water.
In addition, Tibetan Buddhist Medicine uses meditation, visualization, teachings, and mantra as forms of medicine. These “medicines” help to heal physical, mental, and emotional symptoms and diseases, but they also address the psychological and spiritual causes of disease and suffering. Karma, especially the fruition of negative karma, is greatly considered when looking for the causes of disease. Cause and effect, past life issues, and internalized negative emotions, called the Sleeping Dragon, are looked at as possible causes of disease and suffering.
Meditation, visualization, teachings, and mantra are also tools used to address and free us
from the three roots of disease, suffering, and cyclic existence, the cycle of rebirth into this realm. These three roots of all disease and suffering are: ignorance, desire, and anger. At the center of Tibetan thangka, or wheel of life, paintings are three animals, each springing from the other’s mouth. These three animals represent the three roots of disease and suffering: The pig represents ignorance. The rooster represents desire or attachment. The snake represents anger or fear. Each of the three roots feeds off of and springs from one another. Each of the three roots of disease and suffering are both the cause and the result of each other.
Through practicing meditation and visualization, studying teachings, and chanting mantra we can strive to attain what Tibetan Buddhist Medicine considers the ultimate antidote for all disease and suffering – Love and Compassion! By understanding ourselves through self-reflection and self-awareness we can expand and open up our hearts to see the True Self. When our hearts are open we can heal ourselves from within and heal others by spreading love and compassion with-out.
All forms of meditation and all teachings, Buddhist or not, are medicine. Mantra can be an especially powerful medicine because it is both a meditation practice and a visualization practice. The Medicine Buddha Mantra in particular is said to be a great healing aid for all healing processes: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
I learned from a Lama that if we chant the Medicine Buddha Mantra while looking at or visualizing the Blue Medicine Buddha 10,000 times, we can heal ourselves from all disease and suffering. Let’s get started!
Teyata Om Bekandzay Bekandzay
Maha Behandzay
Radza Samudgate Soha
Om the Great Eliminator of all pain and suffering (the Medicine Buddha), supremely illuminated One!
To listen to the Medicine Buddha Mantra, click here.
Through the Peacock's Eyes 
Namaste.
Thank you for the link to listen the mantra.
I am painting a thangka of Bhaisajyaguru at this time. It’s been very cold this winter and my back hurts. Listening the mantra really helps.
Gratitude
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Hi Julie,
I had not realized that you posted on this! Thanks for the links to lead me back here from your most recent post (which I do not have time to look into yet today). I love having blogger friends that remind me of my own journey, our oneness, endlessly 🙂
Much Love to you,
Ka
Thanks Ka!
Thank you, Julie 🙂
Reblogged this on the art of life.
Thanks for the re-blogs! Happy Valentine’s Day!
🙂 back at you.
What a great over view, one that is not so boggling.—- Once upon a time I had an office, and on the east wall, opposite my desk I had a large poster of the Blue Buddha. Helped many, he did. ——– Thering Wangmo —– Bear
May he help you too! Namaste _/l\_
3/4 of the people who came into my office were blind, but declared they could feel something and asked me what was the source of: sometimes they called it energy, sometimes warmth, sometimes goodness or happiness. Sighted folk complained that I should not have religious symbols displayed. I said it was an anthropological rendering, as my father had traveled in Tibet (pre-China) —- hahahaha —- see!! That wonderful Blue poster still cheers us all, even though I left Him in place on that eastern wall 20 years ago. —– Namaste
Awesome! 🙂
An insightful and interesting post. Thanks for sharing it… And the comments were entertaining as well! 🙂
Well, I’m a long way from ignorant. I gave up mind control in the 9th grade. I believe very little about what authority has tried to teach me. Authority is a dangerous title. I accept very little as truth in religion and politics. I believe in a supreme being or creator. I know we all are one. “I AM that “I AM”, the same “I AM” that you are. However, I do carry some anger, mostly about the former. 😉
I tried that once but got lost in my count past 11. The next time I went straight to 10,000…nothing happened. 😦
Hmmm…maybe 10,000 more? 😉
You think so teach. 😉
Or, maybe nothing happened because you are already free of ignorance, attachment, and anger? That or you’ve got an awful lot of past negative karma to resolve! 😉 I’d say by the beauty of your photography that is more likely the former.