Coloured Light Meditation ( . . . with Medicine Buddha)
Use light to develop insight - Lao Tzu
Inhale through the nose ... Exhale through the
mouth ...
Bring your mind to your lungs . . .
Inhale beautiful white light into the lungs . . .
When you exhale, dark light leaves but the beautiful white light stays behind
. . .
Inhale the white light to the lungs exhale the poisons . . .
The healing white light stays within . . .
Repeat a total of five times . . .
Now focus on the kidneys . . .
Inhale deep ocean blue into the kidneys . . .
Exhale the toxins . . .
With each cycle of the breath the kidneys glow more brightly inside like
saphires . . .
Repeat a total of five times . . .
Your awareness rests on your liver . . .
Inhale forest green light into your liver, like the green of spring leaves
. . .
Exhale the unneeded qi (chi) . . .
With each exhalation the liver retains more of the green light, like an
emerald . . .
Repeat a total of five times . . .
Bring your attention to your heart . . .
Breath healing red light into the heart . . .
Exhale diseased qi (chi) . . .
The heart is begining to glow with a ruby-like colour . . .
Repeat a total of five times . . .
The mind goes to the spleen . . .
Inhale healing yellow light into the spleen, filling it . . .
Exhale the poisons . . .
As you continue the yellow becomes clearer and clearer, like a yellow topaz
. . .
Now continue to breath in a relaxed natural fashion . . .
See each of the organs in turn glowing like five precious gems . . .
See if you can hold the image of all five together:
- the lungs white pearl
- the kidneys blue saphire
- the liver green emerald
- the heart red ruby
- the spleen yellow topaz
Now let this image disolve and disappear into simple awareness of the body
. . .
Now let your awareness move to the top of your head and image a clear bright
blue . . .
Image the clear bright blue of a bright blue sky . . . of the lapis blue of the medicine buddha . . .
As you continue to breath allow this blue light to pour into your body .
. .
Filling you up . . .
Once you are full from the toes to the top of your head allow the blue light
to overflow, covering your entire body in healing blue light . . .
Hold this image as long as you want . . .
Now, if you like, as you are holding this image of the blue light covering
and protecting you you can invoke the following mantra, the sound which
is the name of the Medicine Buddha. (The Medicine Buddha is blue coloured
like the sky because his knowledge is all-pervading. Also the Medicine Buddha
has the power of aspiration so if you intuitively image the Medicine Buddha
you well share that power as well.) The sound alone may benefit people with
many different conditions of disease. . .
TA YA TA / OM BE KAN DZE / BE KAN DZE / MA HA
BE KAN DZE /
RA DZA / SA MUNG GA TE / SO HA .