This book offers simple meditation techniques to awaken healing energies in the body and mind. Using Buddhist principles as a basis, Tulku Thondup has created a universal guide that anyone can use. It will benefit those who want to preserve good health as well as those who need comfort and relief from illness or mental distress. Boundless Healing offers:

• ways to employ the four healing powers: positive images, positive words, positive feelings, and positive belief,
• detailed healing exercises that can be done individually or as part of a twelve-stage program
• exercises for dispelling anxiety,
• healing prayers for the dying and the deceased, plus advice for helpers and survivors.

These meditations draw on our innate capacity for imagination and memory, our natural enjoyment of beauty, and our deep-seated longing for a state of quiet calm. For all those who wish to become healthier, happier, and more peaceful in everday life.


Boundless Healing, Tulku Thondup, Shambhala Publications, Paperback, 203 pages, $26.95

Tulku Thondup author and teacher, was born in East Tibet and studied at the famed Dodrupchen Monastery. In 1958 he settled in India, where he taught at Indian universties for many years. He came to the United States in 1980 as a visiting scholar at Harvard University. For the past two decades he lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, engaging in translation and writing on Tibetan Budhism, particularly the Nyingma teachings, under the auspices of the Buddhayana Foundation. Among his books are The Healing Power of Mind, which has been published in seventeen languages, and Boundless Healing, in twelve languages.

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1
How We Can Heal
Healing the Mind and Body	11
The Peaceful Mind	13
The Mind as a Source of Negativity	16
The Path to Peaceful Feelings	20
Awareness of the Peaceful Mind	22
Positive Perception	24
Steps toward Being Happier	26
The Interconnectedness of Mind and Body	27
Using the Body to Lead the Mind	29
A Meditative View of the Body	29
A Positive Approach to Meditation	32
The Four Healing Powers of Mind	33
Two Ways to Apply the Four Healing Powers	37
Sources of Healing	38
Healing the Whole Body	39
Benefits of Healing Meditations	40
General Benefits of Healing	41
Spiritual Benefits of Healing	42
Physical Benefits of Healing Meditation	43
Delayed and Unanticipated Benefits	46
Realizing the Potential to Heal	48
Three States of Health	48
Four Healing Objects	49
Two Sources of Healing Power: External Objects and Ourselves	51
Three Ways of Facing a Problem	52
The Importance of a Focal Point	53
The Importance of Recognizing Enlightenment as Our True Nature	54
Encouraging Our Meditation	57
Some Preparations	57
Some Tips for Meditation	59
Duration of Meditation	59
Overcoming Resistance	60
Feeling Good about Meditation	62
Making It Simple	63
Avoiding Expectations	64
Staying with It	64
Rejoicing in Progress	65
Healing Meditations on the Mind and Body
The Guided Meditations	69
Introduction	69
The Twelve Stages of Meditation	72
Bring Your Mind Back to Your Body	72
Scan the Anatomical Details of Your Body	76
See Your Body as Made of Infinite Individual Cells	81
See Each Cell as a Cell of Light	84
See Each Cell as Vast as the Universe	86
Feel That Each Cell Is Filled with Healing Energies	89
Heal Your Body with Waves of Light and Energy	91
Perform a Special Meditation to Heal Proliferating Sick Cells (Optional)	95
Hear the Healing Sound of AH	98
Open to Healing with the Blossoming Lotus Movement	100
Open to Healing with Other Movements to Relieve Physical Ailments and Promote General Health (Optional)	105
Share the Healing Waves with Others	110
Share the Healing Waves with the Whole Universe	111
Protect Yourself with a Healing Aura (Optional)	112
Rest in Oneness with the Healing Experience	113
How to Use the Twelve Stages If You Have Little Time	114
Some Specific Healing Remedies	117
Healing Meditations for Sleeping and Waking	121
Meditation for Falling Asleep	122
Meditation for Waking Up	122
Dispelling Anxieties upon Sleeping or Waking	125
A Healing Aura for Sleeping and Waking	126
Buddhist Meditations to Heal Mind and Body
Meditation on the Healing Buddha	131
Introduction	131
The Twelve Stages of Meditation on the Healing Buddha	143
Bring Your Mind Back to Your Body	143
Visualize the Healing Buddhas with Devotion	145
With Prayers, Invoke the Blessings of the Healing Buddhas	147
Receive the Healing Blessings	149
Transform Your Body into a Body of Blessing Light and Energy	152
See That Your Body Is Made of Infinite Cells of Light and Energy	153
Feel That Each Cell Is a Boundless Pure Land of Healing Buddhas	154
Heal with the Waves of Blessing Light and Energy	157
Sing AH, the Sound of Blessing Light and Energy Waves	160
Perform the Blossoming Lotus Movement with Blessing Waves	162
Perform Other Healing Movements That Bring Blessings (Optional)	165
Share the Blessing Waves with the Whole Universe	167
Rest in Oneness with the Healing Experience	168
Dedication, Aspiration, and Benediction	169
The Healing Buddha Meditation in Brief	170
Healing Meditations for the Dying and Dead	172
A Buddhist Approach to Dying	174
Meditations for the Dead or Dying	174
Instructions for the Dead or Dying	176
How Helpers and Survivors Should Behave	177
Buddhist Sources of the Healing Meditations	179
Answers to Some Frequently Asked Questions	199
Notes	205
Glossary	209
Bibliography	213