Ultimate Healing: Medicine Buddha Retreat with Venerable Angie Muir

Fri Nov 20, 7–8:30pm EST; Sat–Sun, Nov 21–22, 10:30am–4:30pm EST

Pujas: Cittamani Tara Puja Tue Nov 17, 7–8:15pm EST

Guru Puja (Lama Chöpa) Thu Nov 19, 7–9pm EST

IN-PERSON & ONLINE

Fri: Ultimate Healing: Introduction to Retreat

Discover how the healing practice of Medicine Buddha and the Buddha’s profound teachings on the Four Seals of the Dharma work together to reveal the causes of suffering and the path to lasting peace. This introductory talk offers an accessible overview of the weekend retreat and includes guided meditation, reflection, and time for questions. Open to everyone—whether you are new to Buddhism or an experienced practitioner.

Sat-Sun: Ultimate Healing: Medicine Buddha Retreat

In this retreat, we unite the healing practice of Medicine Buddha with some contemplation on the Four Seals of the Dharma — the essential insights that define authentic Buddhist wisdom.

Medicine Buddha represents awakened healing: the purification of body, speech, and mind, and the compassionate wish that all beings be free from suffering. Yet true healing goes beyond temporary relief. It comes from seeing reality clearly.

The Four Seals — first taught by Shakyamuni Buddha — guide that vision:

All conditioned phenomena are impermanent.

All contaminated phenomena are unsatisfactory.

All phenomena are empty and selfless.

Nirvana is peace.

Just as a skilled physician diagnoses illness and prescribes the cure, the Buddha revealed the deeper causes of suffering and the path to lasting freedom. In this retreat, mantra recitation, visualization, and meditation on Medicine Buddha become a powerful support for realizing these truths in our own experience.

When wisdom and compassion unite, healing becomes complete.

This retreat invites you not only to seek relief from pain, but to awaken the medicine of clear seeing — the healing that frees the heart at its very root.