How to Invoke the Medicine Buddha

It is no coincidence that the words "medication" and "meditation" are only one letter different. They both come from the same Latin root word, medeor, meaning "to heal or to make whole."

In the West, our medical focus is on the external—on the curing of physical symptoms—while Eastern traditions focus more on the internal, that is, addressing the mental causes of illness. It is our good fortune to be living at a time when we can access the best of both worlds.