The Medicine Buddha Mantra (Full - with translation)

Om namo bhagawate Bhaishjaye guru
vaidurya prabha rajaya tathagataya
arhate samyaksam buddhaya teyatha
om bekhajye bekhajye maha bekhajye
bekhajye rajaya samungate svaha

 

The Mantra word for word

• OM: We begin with Om the under-current tone of the universe.
• NAMO: Means yielding or full of trust also can mean to bend or bow and might mean to melt into.
• bhagawate: means in intimate relation to the Divine and often means the entire cosmos
• Bhaishjaye: a name for the Medicine Buddha
• guru: Spiritual Master also means the “that” which transmutes ignorance into wisdom
• vaidurya prabha: Divine deep blue light, like that of Lapis Lazuli.
• Rajaya: means Great King
• Tathagataya: means once came or once gone
• arhate: one who has conquered the cycle of birth death
• samyaksam buddhaya: perfectly enlightened
• teyatha: do it like this
• OM: Again we begin with Om the under-current tone of the universe
• bekhajye bekhajye: do away with the pain of illness
• maha bekhajye: do away with the pain of illness (of the darkness of Spiritual Ignorance)
• bekhajye: do away with the pain of illness
• Samudgate: means the supreme heights. Like this, go go go
• (my prayer shall go to the highest and the widest and the deepest.
• svaha: I offer this prayer and now relinquish it … (to you Medicine Buddha)

Feeding The Needy

To feed or not to feed

Do you feed the needy when they come to you? Even if his mother tells you to turn him away. What do you do if you have a needy 21 year old who doesn't do anything for himself? How do you hold him accountable for his actions and in that process do you withhold food?

I wonder as I feed the boy. He laments over his ex-girlfriend, a good girl, who dumped him for his slothful ways. He's so focused on this tale that he can't even eat. What do we nourish? The body or the spirit? They feed each other in a reciprocal relationship. After he eats perhaps I'll feed him.

Sekert...Hmmmm, I'm getting it. Kali HAHAHA, ya mama