Sat, 20 Jun 2009
Healing Meditation
During the Spring Retreat Drupon Thinley Nyingpo described a simple healing meditation during a talk on tanta. Here are a few words of explanation. The sven pointed posture of Vairochana is the usual meditation position you see in pictures of Buddhist monks. Any seated position where you hold your back straight is fine. And Jigten Sumgon is the founder of the Drikung tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. You can substitute any teacher in your own tradition or Shakyamuni Buddha instead, or even, I suppose, Jesus Christ.
To begin the practice, sit in the seven pointed posture of Vairochana if you can. Feel your body is completely hollow like a balloon. Lord Jigten Sumgon said even if you have been sick for a year, through this practice you can remove it in a month, and if you have been sick for a month, you can remove it in a day. Keep your mind clear and undistracted. The illness is gathered together at a point below the navel and becomes very very small. The nature of illness is visualized as a black substance which is transformed into a white substance which is the essence of medicine. Visualize it then transforming into Lord Jigten Sumgon, who is in essence your root guru. Radiant light or nectar expands from this point filling your body and pushing out any negativity.
