Tayata Om Bekanze Bekanze Maha Bekanze Radza Samudgate Soha
Lapis Night
The mantra
Tayata Om Bekanze Bekanze Maha Bekanze Radza Samudgate Soha
What it means
Thus: O healer, healer, great healer, king of healing, so be it.
Source: Medicine Buddha Mantra · Bhaiṣajyaguru Sutra
Word by word
- Tayata
- it goes like this
- Bekanze
- eliminating pain
- Maha bekanze
- eliminating the great pain — the pain of the mind
- Radza samudgate
- supreme healer, risen
- Soha
- may it take root
How to pronounce it: tah-yah-tah ohm bay-kahn-zay bay-kahn-zay mah-hah bay-kahn-zay rah-dzah sah-mood-gah-tay so-hah
Why this one, at this hour
The Medicine Buddha is the color of lapis lazuli — the exact blue of the sky at this depth of the descent. Where the physician heals the body, Bhaishajyaguru heals the root: the old knots of craving, aversion and confusion loosen in blue light while the dreamer drifts through it. You do not have to do anything here. Blue light, all the way down.
How to use it tonight
Lie down. Play it once at low volume, close enough to hear the words without straining. Say the mantra silently with the voice for as long as it is easy, then let it say itself. When the whispered line comes, do not repeat it — let it be planted. The album runs in order across the night; if you fall asleep before the end, that is the intended outcome.
The whispered line
“Blue light, all the way down”