FPMT Australia Ltd

Medicine Buddha Retreat in Southern Tasmania 

• This retreat is the perfect opportunity to spend time reflecting on your life,  on any problems you might experience with health and happiness, in a caring and accepting environment, with a retreat leader who is familiar with human suffering in its many forms. The retreat schedule will include  teachings on the graduated path to enlightenment. The main part of the retreat consists of Medicine Buddha sadhana practice four times a day, and related teachings, meditation and mantra recitation sessions. It is not necessary to have taken refuge or received the initiation of Medicine Buddha in order to participate in the retreat.  This is a full time residential retreat, and participants are asked to commit to attend the full retreat and to abide by the course discipline as explained by the retreat leader at the beginning of the retreat.
   

• Check Retreat Venue at http://www.nichetas.com.au/   

• Check Retreat Leader information at http://www.fpmt.org/teachers/resident/namgyel.asp
  
• Retreat Pdf file click here
  

What does "ultimate healing with compassion" mean?

Lama Zopa Rinpoche says:    

"Healing essentially comes from the mind, not from the body. Healing our mind is crucial, because otherwise our problems, which are beginningless, become endless. Disease is caused by our self-cherishing: ignorance, anger, attachment and other delusions and by the negative actions these motivate.

Our negative thoughts and actions leave imprints on our mind, which then manifest as disease or other problems. The imprints also make it possible for disturbing thoughts and negative actions to arise again. If we do nothing to heal our mind, there is always the danger that we will again create the cause of the disease, that we will repeat the actions that caused us to become physically unhealthy.

While external medicine can be taken to heal a physical sickness, inner medicine - meditation - needs to be taken to heal the cause of the disease and to ensure that we never experience the disease again. Meditation not only heals the disease but brings great peace to the mind.

Compassion is the best healer. The most powerful medicine comes from developing compassion for all living beings. Each time we meditate on compassion for all living being we accumulate infinite merit, the cause of happiness and success; each time we practice meditation for the benefit of all living beings we perform ultimate healing."