The Universal Migrator

August 12, 2006

Photoshop Incarnations

Incarnation in the form of Bhaisajyaguruvaidūryaprabha, or Medicine Buddha, the Supreme Healer.

Tibetan Buddhists consider the Medicine Buddha Empowerment to be the most powerful blessing for healing, dispelling sickness and for awakening the innate healing wisdom that lies within every individual.

This is the long version of the Medicine Buddha Mantra in Sanskrit:

Om Namo Bhagavate Bhaishajyaguru Vaidūryaprabharājāya Tathāgatāya Arhate Samyaksambuddhāya Tadyathā: Om Bhaishajye Bhaishajye Mahābhaishajye Bhaishajye Rāja Samudgate Svāhā

This is the short version of the Medicine Buddha Mantra, which is known as the Medicine Budddha Heart Mantra:

(Tadyathā) Om Bhaishajye Bhaishajye Mahābhaishajye Bhaishajye Rāja Samudgate Svāhā

The Medicine Buddha mantra is held to be extremely powerful for healing of physical illnesses and purification of negative karma. One form of practice based on the Medicine Buddha is done when one is striken by disease. The patient is to recite the long Medicine Buddha mantra 108 times over a glass of water. The water is now believed to be blessed by the power of the mantra and the blessing of the Medicine Buddha himself, and the patient is to drink the water. The practice should be repeated each day until the illness is cured.

Tibetan Buddhism also teaches that the Medicine Buddha mantra can be used to liberate the animals one eats. The practice involves reciting the Medicine Buddha mantra and then blowing on the meat. It is held that the dead animal, wherever it has been reborn, will be liberated from its suffering and reborn into a happy existence.

Incarnation in the form of Toshiro Mifune, legendary master of classic japanese film, whose powerful performances inspire me greatly in life.