Ultimate Healing: Medicine Buddha Retreat
Healing Through Wisdom, Freedom Through Clear Seeing
Teachings & Retreat with Ven. Angie Muir
In-person & online
Thursday, November 12, 7pm - 8:30pm
Saturday & Sunday November 14-15, 9:30am - 4:30pm
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.
REGISTRATION COMING LATER THIS YEAR
In-person & online
Thursday, November 12, 7pm - 8:30pm
Saturday & Sunday November 14-15, 9:30am - 4:30pm
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.
REGISTRATION COMING LATER THIS YEAR
About Venerable Angie
Born in Scotland, in 1970, Angie obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in 1992. Feeling disillusioned with her prospective career path and life ahead of her, Angie left Scotland and combined traveling with work in Asia for 3 years until 1995, when she felt a calling to go to India to explore meditation and find her life path.
Within a few months, she “had the incredible fortune due to some previous karma” to discover Tibetan Buddhism, meet her main spiritual teacher, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche (of almost 30 years), and become ordained. Since that time, she felt the most important thing to do was follow the wishes and advice of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This involved serving at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s personal residences in the US for over 13 years. Interspersed with that was working at FPMT centers such as Vajrapani Institute and Thubten Norbu Ling as well as doing various personal retreats. Ven. Angie also returned to Scotland for a few years, teaching and leading meditation retreats there.
In 2023, when Lama Zopa Rinpoche showed the aspect of passing away, she was invited to Vajrapani Institute in California where she supports the programs as a teacher in residence. She is currently teaching the FPMT program Discovering Buddhism as well as starting to tour and offer other classes, meditations, and retreats at other centers in North America.
She also has love of ritual and enjoys to help students integrate key components of mantra and ritual into their daily practice. This includes offering pujas regularly online which enhance positive energy and clear obstacles. She has also helped lead a pilgrimage to Lawudo Retreat Center in the Himalayas in Nepal where her teacher meditated in his previous life. She plans to lead more pilgrimages in the future to help others experience the power of sacred places and the joy and benefit they bring to the heart and mind.
Born in Scotland, in 1970, Angie obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in 1992. Feeling disillusioned with her prospective career path and life ahead of her, Angie left Scotland and combined traveling with work in Asia for 3 years until 1995, when she felt a calling to go to India to explore meditation and find her life path.
Within a few months, she “had the incredible fortune due to some previous karma” to discover Tibetan Buddhism, meet her main spiritual teacher, Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche (of almost 30 years), and become ordained. Since that time, she felt the most important thing to do was follow the wishes and advice of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. This involved serving at Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s personal residences in the US for over 13 years. Interspersed with that was working at FPMT centers such as Vajrapani Institute and Thubten Norbu Ling as well as doing various personal retreats. Ven. Angie also returned to Scotland for a few years, teaching and leading meditation retreats there.
In 2023, when Lama Zopa Rinpoche showed the aspect of passing away, she was invited to Vajrapani Institute in California where she supports the programs as a teacher in residence. She is currently teaching the FPMT program Discovering Buddhism as well as starting to tour and offer other classes, meditations, and retreats at other centers in North America.
She also has love of ritual and enjoys to help students integrate key components of mantra and ritual into their daily practice. This includes offering pujas regularly online which enhance positive energy and clear obstacles. She has also helped lead a pilgrimage to Lawudo Retreat Center in the Himalayas in Nepal where her teacher meditated in his previous life. She plans to lead more pilgrimages in the future to help others experience the power of sacred places and the joy and benefit they bring to the heart and mind.
