Tara Stupa & Medicine Buddha Events (Thai Poster)

 

พิธีมนตราภิเษกพระพุทธเจ้าการแพทย์

พระอาจารย์ญีมา ทรักปา ริมโปเชจะประกอบพิธีมนตราภิเษกพระไภษัชยคุรุ (พระพุทธเจ้าการแพทย์) เช้าวันอาทิตย์ที่ 27 กันยายน ที่ศูนย์ขทิรวัน หลังการสนทนาธรรมในหัวข้อ “กรรมในทางพุทธศาสนากับการรักษาโรค”

พิธีนี้เป็นการขอพรจากพระพุทธเจ้ามายังผู้เข้าร่วมพิธีเพื่อให้พวกเขาสามารถปฏิบัติบูชาพระองค์ได้ เป็นการขอพรในการปฏิบัติธรรมและในการบำบัดรักษาโรค

ผู้สนใจจะไปร่วมงานและร่วมพิธีก่อฐานพระมหาสถูป กรุณาแจ้งความจำนงโดยเร็วที่สุด ในเย็นวันเสาร์ที่ 26 เราจะจัดช่วงเวลาให้ทุกท่่านได้มีโอกาสสนทนาธรรมกับริมโปเชด้วย

 

Medicine Buddha Empowerment

The Foundation is pleased to invite interested persons to receive blessing from Medicine Buddha in the Medicine Buddha empowerment on Sunday September 27 at Khadiravana Center. The empowerment conducted by Nyima Dakpa Rinpoche is part of the grand celebration of the first day of construction of the Tara Great Stupa.

 

Medicine Buddha Teaching & Empowerment

Sunday March 29:

The Foundation organized a teaching and an empowerment on Bhaisajyaguru or Medicine Buddha at the Foundation House. It was another great event with more than 60 people attending it. We are grateful to Soraj’s mother for taking care of the vegetarian lunch.

Thanks to the Pandara staff: Yidrol, Nuch, Nut, Dream, Bo and Bank for beautifully arranging the place. As always, we thank K. Ram for simultaneous translation into English. 

 

 

Morning session:

Rinpoche urged everyone to attend the morning session so that they understand the meaning of the empowerment. He explained that 424 illnesses are rooted in three poisons: greed, hatred and ignorance. They lead to imbalances of three processes in our body, namely lung (related to the wind element), tripa (related to the fire element), and began (related to the water element). These imbalances cause both physical and mental illnesses. In order to relieve suffering from sentient beings who fall ill, and to make best use of this perfect body for enlightenment, we seek Medicine Buddha empowerment.

He started the teaching on ten unwholesome actions to be avoided. Three of them (killing, stealing and sexual misconduct) are bodily actions. Four relate to speech, namely lying, slander, harsh speech, and idle speech; and the other three concern mental actions (envy, ill will, and clinging to wrong views). Rinpoche gave a vivid example for each type of unwholesome karma. And when he talked about taking life, as in the case of killing yaks in Tibet, a feeling of sadness arose in my heart. He urged us not to eat meat if we can. If not, eat lesser and lesser.

Afternoon session:

After lunch, Rinpoche and Yontan made three tormas, which are ritual barley cakes to be used in the empowerment. Everyone was requested to wash their face, mouth, hands and feet before they entered the deity mandala. When we were ready, Rinpoche performed a “wangdrup” ceremony, while each one of us recited Medicine Buddha’s mantra in silence. 

Rinpoche asked us to have a right attitude in receiving the empowerment. It must be rooted in bodhicitta. We wanted to help others; that’s why, we seek special blessing. He emphasized that we must develop strong faith in our heart and must not have any doubt, how little it is, in the power of Buddha. 

In the ceremony we made a vow to recite Medicine Buddha’s mantra at least 21 times a day. We would keep our commitments with the master by respecting him always, with one another by regarding each one of us a “vajra friend”, and with all sentient beings by regarding them our parents. In particular, we would  live our life by avoiding ten unwholesome deeds.

Receive blessing

Giving rice blessed by Medicine Buddha’s mantra

Prostrating to thank the master at the end of the ceremony

Blessing the Foundation’s stupa project

 

Rinpoche’s Visit to Khadiravana & Vajrapani Empowerment

This time Rinpoche kindly visited Khadiravana twice. On Saturday after we returned from Kaeng Krajan, Rinpoche performed a Vajrapani empowerment to bless the land and to give special blessing to my little nephew Pun. The empowerment is to remove obstacles, particularly those that are related to illnesses connected with natural elements. Vajrapani is considered Bodhisattva of energy.

After the empowerment, he consecrated my retreat house. He said the house is truly a meditation place, and he expresses his wish to come and stay in a retreat at Khadiravana for a month or two.