True medicine…

We all want to be healed and all of us wanted to witness a miracle at-least once in our life. The question isn’t whether miracles exist but what do we do after we receive the miracle, the healing. It is like someone who is going to a particular place for realising a greater purpose and the car runs out of fuel. She needs the fuel not to tour around with the car, but to only use it as a means to fulfil the higher purpose.

Car, like our body and mind, is bound to run out of the fuel at some point. So even if we keep refilling the fuel, and get healed, it will still run out of fuel at a later time. So, the true miracle is to be healed even of the need to be healed. Both in Christianity and Buddhism, the saints are referred to as “doctors”. In Buddhism, there is Medicine Buddha, Bhaisajyaguru (藥師佛), who is greatly revered. He isn’t our usual over-the-counter pharmacist who just gives a pain-killer to let us move on with our life and fall sick again. Buddha, Christ or any saint offers us a medicine that heals the root of our sickness.

So it isn’t that we mustn’t ask for miracles and healing. But before that we need to sincerely ask ourselves what we would do with our healing. Ask if we are ready to change our lives and cultivate a wholesome heart. Upon a deeper reflection, we see that being worthy of even praying for a healing and getting healed aren’t two different things, after all~

#Reflection