Medicine Buddha Initiation

Visualize the Medicine Buddha sitting above your crown on a moon disc rising out of lotus blossom. Above the Medicine Buddha sits the root guru. Above him sits one on top of another five more Buddhas. As you pray to the topmost Buddha he dissolves into the one below him. Each in turn dissolves into the one below until the Medicine Buddha himself dissolves through your crown and into your heart, purifying all impurities. The mantra (Om bikensa bikensa mahabikensa bikensa ran sa samugati soha) rotates clockwise like a rosary or mala around the seed syllable in the center of the heart of the teacher. One by one the beads of the mala flow like seeds of bodhicitta up his central channel and through his throat chakra and out of his mouth as he recites the mantra, entering the initiate through the crown in her head. One by one like drops of bodhicitta the syllables of the mantra descend to the heart, where they once again rotate clockwise around the seed syllable. The Medicine Buddha and the initiate are now one for the benefit of all mother sentient beings.