Healing Sessions

Medicine Buddha is extremely important, and the group can also do Amitayus long life meditation. There is a version in Chinese. There is also the White Tara long life meditation, which you can get from the Dharma center if you don’t have it. You can also do the 21 Praises to Tara, with strong meditation and prayer, then visualize the nectar coming out from the heart of the 21 Taras to those who need the healing (those who are present, those at home, and those in hospital). Also, think the light is going out to all sentient beings.

As you recite the mantras it is excellent to bless water. You do this by blowing on the water after reciting a number of mantras. The order of the session, if possible, is first do Medicine Buddha practice and then other deity meditations like thousand-arm Chenrezig. The reason for doing Medicine Buddha first is it helps to bring success for the prayers and wishes for self and others.

Find out from the geshe the best day to start the first class. You only need the date on which to begin.

If water has already been blessed from a previous session, then everyone can sip it at the beginning of the next session, particularly the patients.

It is also good to set up holy objects for people to circumambulate. This is for the patients in particular. Visualize nectar, energy, and light emanating from the holy objects to the patients, healing all disease, negative karma, spirit harm, and obstacles. It would be good to have a Medicine Buddha statue to circumambulate, if possible. Slowly, the same healing practice can be established in our other centers.

There is a collection of healing advice that you should study (I have put it together). I will let you know how you can get this information.

The most important thing for the healing to be a success is strong faith. Healing comes from the power of the mind (of those participating) and Buddha's omniscient mind and great compassion.

With much love and prayer...