Sound Wellness Solstice: Medicine Buddha for Gaia

We will be chanting the Medicine Buddha Mantra 216 times. This will take about 1 hour. You are encouraged to chant along. Using your own voice is a powerful way to stimulate your nervous system into releasing hormones that create relaxation and healing. At the end of the chanting, we will be sharing this healing field with our human family and our beautiful planet.

Be in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed. Any interruption in the chanting stops the flow of energy. Use the bathroom before we start and have a glass of water with you.

Please share and invite friends.

BACKGROUND

Why Mantra?
Sound is a fundamental creative force of the universe. And mantra uses this creative force in very specific ways. It is an ancient way to create harmony.

Everything in the universe vibrates to a specific frequency or wavelength. Mantras vibrate at specific wavelengths. When you chant a mantra you tune your own frequencies with the frequencies of the mantra. That is, shifting your own frequencies.

Why Medicine Buddha?
https://landofmedicinebuddha.org/about-medicine-buddha/meaning-of-mantra-and-praise/
Quoted from a talk given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

“Normally people think that Medicine Buddha is for healing but it’s not only that, it’s also very powerful for purifying negative karma and very powerful for success. The Medicine Buddha practice is so precious. It seems that you can do Medicine Buddha Puja for ANY purpose, ANY problem, ANYTHING. You can use the Medicine Buddha practice for any kind of problem, for court cases, to stop wars, to stop violence, anything. It is very good for business, for mothers who are pregnant to give birth successfully, anything.

Medicine Buddha’s mantra is: tayatha om bekandze bekandze maha bekandze radza samudgate soha.

Tayatha – means “like this”.

Om – is composed of the three pure sounds A U and MA, which signifies one’s own body, speech and mind that get transformed into the vajra holy body, speech and mind.

Then bekandze bekandze -“eliminating pain, eliminating pain”. What eliminates pain is medicine. This pain is not ordinary pain – even animals do not want to experience that. The first eliminating pain is true suffering, the second is the true cause of suffering. The medicine that eliminates pain is first the graduated path of the lower capable being, and second the graduated path of the middle capable being.

Then maha bekandze -“the great eliminating pain” is the graduated path of the higher capable being, which eliminates the subtle defilements.

So bekandze bekandze maha bekandze contains the whole path to enlightenment, the ultimate medicine.

Radza – is king.

Samudgate – (ocean of goodness)

Soha – to establish the foundation in the heart, the blessing, the devotion from which the realization comes.”

Why 216 times?
The Mala has 108 beads. There are 108 main astral channels from your heart in your energy body to the remainder of your energy body. Chanting a mantra 108 times sends energy into each of these channels.

We will be chanting the mantra 216 times, or twice around the mala. The first round focuses on releasing what does not serve you. The second round focuses on receiving what will serve your highest good.