Arura Healing Centre

Buddha as Medicine

It is traditionally thought that the Buddha Shakyamuni was 71 years old when he taught the medical tantras. He gave these teachings at Varanasi, India in the medicine forest. For a long time after that the teachings were kept alive through oral lineages. Now we have the lineage of the internet! Here is a lovely little description of the Four Noble Truths as medicine from the primary studies at http://www.buddhanet.net/

"When we get sick, we go to a doctor. A good doctor first finds out what illness we have. Next he decides what has caused it. Then he decides what the cure is. Finally, he gives the medicine that will make us well again.

In the same way, the Buddha showed that there is suffering in the world. He explained the cause of this suffering. He taught that this suffering could be ended. Finally, he showed the way leading to the end of suffering.

Look at the table to see the connection between a doctor and the Buddha."

A Doctor tells us	Buddha tells us the truth about
What is wrong with us	The presence of suffering
What is the cause of our illness	The cause of suffering
That there is a cure	The end of suffering
What we have to do to get well	The way to the end of suffering

MindBodySpiritFestival 2011

What a time we had!

Our stand looked great (I might be biased there) and we had people milling about for the whole three days; asking questions, buying lovely things from Himalaya Arts, looking at my photos from Tibet, trying a Yuk Cho treatment. Fantastic!

We gave out so many flyers, hundreds of bookmarks I had made with with Yuthoks picture, I talked about Tibetan Medicine, Tibet, my clinic, all the different therapies, Dr Nida and IATTM, travel, study, Medicine Buddha, yaks, Tibetan food! You name it, they wanted to know about it.

I gave 20 minute Yuk Cho sessions and everyone loved it. Of course being such a unique treatment there was a lot of curiosity, always a wide-eyed audience.

So a great event and experience. I am very glad we took the opportunity to share this wonderful healing art. (Now that its all over? Happy but tired!)

I can't speak highly enough of the MBS festival organisers, they were efficient, professional and very helpful always, as well as being very very nice to a first time exhibitor! They won my heart with the chocolate hand out on the first morning, my kind of people.

And a big shout out of thanks to Philip for his support, my beautiful son Alexander for his smiling face and help on the stand; and of course to Tobchen for agreeing to join me on this mad adventure! It was a lovely synergy having his beautiful things there for people to buy, another way for them to make a connection with Tibet and her amazing people and culture.

A few more pictures here