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MEDICINE BUDDHA PUJA
On 8th of the Tibetan month, in English, app. 1 hour long.
To find out when Tushita offers the next Medicine Buddha
Puja, please visit: Program > Calendar of Events.
The Eight Medicine Buddhas
made special prayers to benefit beings of degenerate ages, hence in the
sutric tradition this is considered one of the most powerful practices,
which possesses the greatest and quickest blessings. This practice
purifies and heals on all levels - physical, mental, spiritual and
environmental. This puja is particularly powerful at Tushita, as we
have the Eight life-sized Medicine Buddhas in residence.
Seeing the sickness that beings would experience in the future, the
Buddha taught this practice so that these sicknesses could be overcome
and so that beings could attain enlightenment. Doing the practice of
the Medicine Buddha empowers us to be effective in one's healing work,
if one happens to be in the medical profession. Any activity to help
others, whether healing or whatever, should be based essentially on the
good heart wishing to benefit others. The practice of the Medicine
Buddha can help us to overcome many problems of this and future lives,
up to enlightenment, and can also bring immediate benefits.
"It is very important that the elaborate Medicine Buddha puja with
extensive offerings be done regularly. The offering should be as
extensive and as beautiful as possible, and done in order to benefit
all FPMT.
Medicine Buddha puja is
also something that can be done for people who are dying or who have
already passed away, and also for individual success in all kind of
activities. This Medicine Buddha practice is extremely powerful and
beneficial especially when it is done with extensive offerings
beautifully arranged.
It is always the case
that there are many students that have no time or very little time to
do practice, always too busy. Such people can be encouraged to make
regular offerings from their wages for the Medicine Buddha puja, i.e.
towards the extensive offerings. In this way they are able to create
merit, and as they know it is happening regularly, from their home they
can mentally make the offerings to the Guru Triple Gem. Even they can
do the mental offerings in their car or the office. This is a very good
way to help the center to develop and also help the individual's Dharma
practice."
by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
MAY ALL BEINGS BE HAPPY!
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