Lord Buddha the Physician
Lord Buddha has many names such as the King of Healing, Medicine Buddha, Teacher of Medicine, Bhaishajyaguru, Vaidurya, and tathagata. Edwin Arnold called the Buddha the “Light of Asia.” Lord Buddha is the perfect healer.
Buddha advised his congregation of 1250 Bhikku’s, "You must look after each other's health. You are all the children of Buddha. You have left all of your relations and all of your loved ones. Who will care for you in time of sickness?" Lord Buddha wanted everyone to learn about his self-healing life style & live accordingly.
The body is made up of six elements, earth, water, fire, air, ether, and consciousness. These six together form the body. In Sinhalese, six is called haya and the six elements are collectively called hayat hey. When the proportion of these six body elements is in harmony, there is well being all of the time in the person. - Three of the elements - the water, fire, and air-govern the body. Buddha has always taught people to live a life of moderation in order to keep the water, fire, and air elements in friendly proportion.
When they are in unfriendly proportion, they make the pancreas hunger, creating great desire. Starved pancreatic juices create great desire, and the person cannot be satisfied. If the water energy gets closer to the fire, then there is greed. If the air element is close to the fire energy, then there is hatred. Greed and desire trigger the hatred when the three body elements are out of proportion.
Lord Buddha gives formulas to bring the elements into proportion and teaches that all living things must eat a balanced diet to live in brotherhood. Underfeeding any one of the elements creates symptoms. Overfeeding any one of these elements create symptoms. There are 18 different ways to become imbalanced. Each one of the 18 creates 4448 symptoms for a total of 80,064 symptoms resulting from water, fire, and air elements being out of proportion.
These three dominant energies are called the Trinity of the body. Many religions have a trinity. In Hebrew, there is the Trinity, knowledge, wisdom and Understanding In Hindu, there is the Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. In Christianity, there is the Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. In Buddhism, there is the Trinity of Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. And in Lord Buddha's medicine system, there is the Trinity of air, fire, water, which governs the health of all life.
Everybody must have a daily routine of taking food. The Buddha taught that first thing in the morning, all of the Bhikku’s must drink rice water well boiled, adding nothing. This rice water has ten different healing aspects including breaking constipation, satisfying hunger, giving energy, and quenching thirst. Drinking the rice water confers life, beauty, and strength while dispelling hunger, thirst, and wind, cleaning the bowels and bladder, and digesting food. This simple to prepare medicine is praised for lengthening life. Everybody should take this rice water as long as they live.
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Lord Buddha's Dhamma Garden
The Creator of the Garden of Eden gave all the trees and plants a purpose. The Creator wanted somebody to tend this garden, and for man and woman to water and care for the trees and plants. The Creator instructed them to eat the vegetation when they were hungry or sick, but the Creator also instructed them not to eat from one tree. The Creator taught the man and woman how to live with the plants in the Garden of Eden. The Creator was the first herbal doctor, and His first students were Adam and Eve.
The creation story in the Buddha tradition is different. At the beginning of time, there was Sri Lanka, and the people lived a harmonious, righteous life. At that time, Sri Lanka was called Dhamma Deepa meaning “righteous or holy island.” In Sri Lanka, history originates millions of years ago with the Buddha tradition. The last Buddha was Gotama Buddha but according to Buddhist history, previously there have been 625,000 Buddha’s each Buddha given 5,000 years for Dharma propagation.
In ancient times, there were not even ten sick people in the nation and no unemployment. In the Buddha Dhamma medical system, there are 80,064 herbal formulas to cure all of the diseases that plague the human body.
Today, the scientist cuts the human body to find out different things. Lord Buddha never cut the body; he developed a special examination of the whole body to see what the problem is without operating. Dhamma starts with proper breathing and eating right. When you eat the right food, your blood is good, you are happy, and your thoughts are right.
When you think right, you act right. When you act right, there is always pleasure and support. You are peaceful. Lord Buddha teaches that moderation is the key to the gate of eternal bliss. Eating an excess of sugar creates diseases and so does eating no sugar.
Lord Buddha's Dhamma written in primitive books on palm leaves for the Sri Lankan race also gives acupuncture points. In America, Chinese acupuncture is recognized and taught in schools. The Buddha gave these acupuncture points.
Pressing certain points during a particular phase of the moon can either kill or stimulate a person. This science of stimulation using these acupuncture points was also a part of the training of the kings.
The Kama Sutra says massaging certain points increases sexual pleasure. These are the findings of the Divine Brain.
Dhamma tells us that a conceiving mother will wait 10 new moons or 280 days before delivering her child. Dhamma also gives different formulas to cure sickness at all ages from conceiving through delivery time through old age. All a person will do in his life is ingrained in the tiny ovum created at conception. From the time of conceiving, the heart beats and never stops until death.
The Dhamma is rich in medical knowledge and includes formulas, acupuncture, massaging with oils, and bathing with herbs. In addition, Buddha's Dhamma includes a set of words used as charms. Suppose someone has a fishbone stuck in the throat. By repeating a certain phrase seven times in a cup of water, then drinking, giving up the water and swallowing, the bone will get loose and be swallowed.
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Mistranslation Buddha’s Dhamma
The cruel king Emperor Asoka was known for killing and torturing until he embraced Buddhism and gave up killing. He sent his two children to Sri Lanka as missionaries to propagate Buddhism. His son Rahatan Mahinda translated the Buddha's teachings into Sinhalese so that people could read and understand the Dhamma. At that time, Sri Lanka was self-sufficient, no one was unemployed, and very few were sick.
An evil Bhikku from India called Buddhagosa intentionally mistranslated the Sinhalese books into Pali and then destroyed the Sinhalese books, which prevented the checking of the original texts. Although many Bhikku’s memorize the Pali texts in their youth, they repeat the text without meaning and do not understand the herbal formulas. Only those few priests with advanced understanding of Pali know the real meaning of Buddha's Dhamma Medicine.
Here are five examples of mistranslation or omission. First, a very famous Bhikku called Pilinda-vaccha suffered from paralysis. His story is told in verse 43 on page 532 of the third book in the Vinaya pitaka, Mahavagga-pali Part II, translated from Pali by the Venerable Pandita Ambalamgoda Dhammakusala Thera and printed in 1957 by the Government of Ceylon. Lord Buddha told the Bhikku’s that Pilinda-vaccha must be given sedakhamma sudation using kansa or cannabis leaves. In the Pali translation, the story reads just “ordinary leaves.”
Lord Buddha also instructs to boil the leaves of mahaseda and bhangodaka, which also included the leaves of the kansa plant. The water used in boiling was then sprinkled on the priest, turning him round and round as the water was sprinkled. In the translation from Sinhalese into Pali, Gosa made the grave mistake of writing only "boil leaves," leaving out the word “kansa.” This omission has helped prevent cannabis from being used as a healing herb and ruining the health of the masses of Sri Lanka. This problem was brought before Lord Buddha.
Here is a second example of mistranslation. Buddha prohibited eating the flesh often animals including man, elephant, horse, dog, cheetah, lion, viagra, acha, and terracha. “acha” and “terracha” both mean bear and so are unnecessarily repetitive. Gosa should have translated the “acha” as “wacha,” which means cow. Gosa's mistranslation left the cow's name out so the cow's name is not among the ten prohibited animals. Buddhists were misguided to start eating beef. Now all beefeaters are ill as a result.
The third example: Lord Buddha said that maintaining health meant drinking well-cooked rice water. This rice water is called hulu kanda. But in translation, Gosa dropped the hulu and called it lunu kanda instead. Lunu means salt. Buddha prohibited adding salt to the rice water when preparing it.
A fourth example: The Bulath leaf (Betel) has all of the energy of meat. Lord Buddha instructed, "Bhikku’s, there are ten healthy blessings from chewing the Betel leaf with aracha nut, cardamon, cloves, nutmeg, and lime."
Every night after eating, chew all of these well and then swallow the saliva. The ten healthy blessings in swallowing the Betel leaf juice are preventing gum sickness, purifying the taste of the tongue, preventing any kind of bacteria, increasing appetite, increasing sex, making the man's voice pleasant, creating affection between man and woman, curing bad breath, and helping endure suffering. But Gosa said that chewing the Betel leaf with tobacco was allowed. When betel leaf is chewed with tobacco, the juice is spit out and not swallowed because it is too unpalatable. Spitting out the juice prevents the people from knowing the healthy blessings of the Betel leaf.
Another mistake Gosa made was failing to include that when two people greet each other they should say AYOUBOWAN, which means "may you live long." Making wishes to others is common in Sri Lanka: "may we have seasonal rain," "may our fields bring hundred fold yield,” “may all of us have enough grain to be happy,” and, most importantly, “may the most righteous one among us become our ruler.”
Everybody's wish is to live long. Day or night, anytime two people meet, they should say "may you live long."
May the stars circle round the moon. May the Buddha's medicine heal all around the world. May my refuge be Buddha. May my refuge be Dhamma. May my refuge be Sangha. May all these three blessings save me from untimely death.
Dosthora Mudalihamy Warnasuriya
