Words of Solace and Healing

Words of Solace and Condolence
...May they pass away from pain.

Journey of Hearts

A Healing Place in CyberSpace^TM

These words were given to me to use at a "Remembrance Service" that I organized at the end of my residency days, to remember the patients and family members lost by the Resident Physicians. These words were found by a friend, studying Buddhism.
I found these words were able to describe the essence of what I try to share with my patients...and a good reality reminder for me, when I am questioning medicine, the reasons that I entered...so that I could be a doctor "for all the sick beings in the world, until everyone is healed." From the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

May I be a protector to those without protection

A leader for those who journey

And a boat, a bridge, a passage

For those desiring the further shore.

May the pain of every living creature
Be completely cleared away
May I be the doctor, the medicine
And may I be the nurse
For all the sick beings in the world
Until everyone is healed.

Just like space
And the great elements such as earth,
May I always support the life
Of all boundless creatures.

And until they pass away from pain
May I also be a source of life
For all the realms of varied beings
That reach unto the ends of space.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Last updated January 9, 1998

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