Healing the Heart: The True Essence of Medicine

The True Essence of Healing

Most people in the world consider me a divine physician, yet I have never regarded myself as such. In truth, the genuine art of medicine does not originate from any miraculous medical classic or pharmacopoeia. Instead, it lies entirely in whether one can improve the character and true nature of the people. This is the true core of medical practice. The real principles of pharmacology, pharmacy, and medicine are fundamentally about healing the human heart.

Throughout my years of travelling and practising medicine in the countryside, I reached a profound conclusion: if a patient does not sincerely resolve to change their heart, it is extremely difficult to cure their illness at the root. If a patient is unwilling to transform their mental notes and evil thoughts, even if I were to force a treatment upon them, it would only trigger a strong rejection from their body. In some cases, it would even cause me to suffer from the very same symptoms they were experiencing.

The Root of All Illness

There are several well-known negative examples that serve as a warning, such as Governor Chen Deng and Prime Minister Cao Cao. The case of the Prime Minister is indeed a sobering reminder, and it is precisely because of such karmic entanglements that I lost my life in prison at the young age of sixty-three.

After my death, my spirit left my body and entered the space where the deities of the medical world reside. As I travelled through the space of a thousand years, continuing to practise medicine, I was eventually saved by Practitioner Su and brought to the luminous Dharma-Nature Land. It was only then that I truly understood that the symptoms I had observed in the past were, in reality, derived from the dark magnetic fields within the space where cells are generated, as well as the influence of the beings within our bodies.

The Great Physician King

I now realise that the Buddha’s teachings are the true method of the Great Physician King, which addresses the human heart and prescribes the right medicine at the very root of the illness. If one cannot fundamentally resolve the predicament of aging, sickness, and death, then no matter how skilled a doctor may be or how advanced their medical techniques are, their efforts will ultimately lack profound significance. Taking this opportunity, I wish to share with the world these critical truths that have not yet been made public, so that everyone may gain a new level of awakening.

People in the world may think that because I travelled far and wide and often disappeared without a trace, my patients were unable to receive timely and complete cures. In truth, the patients themselves possessed such stubborn and unyielding characters that my medical skills were simply unable to improve or transform their conditions. Their roots of illness were deeply entrenched, and I lacked the ability to counsel them into changing their ways or helping themselves recover. On the few occasions I was summoned to see them, I spoke plainly and directly, explaining that the root of their illness had not truly been eradicated.

The Illusion of a Quick Cure

Even if I applied acupuncture or provided simple prescriptions to alleviate their symptoms, it did not mean the disease had been fully removed. Their habits and character remained unchanged, and they continued to engage in behaviors that harmed themselves. Their personalities and tempers were constantly in motion, and every outburst caused further damage to their bodies. At that time, people did not understand the concept of spirits, nor did they know of the real existence of karmic creditors. However, in the ancient methods of traditional Chinese medicine, the concepts of cultivating the mind and nurturing the body were always fundamental.

One must maintain moderation and balance between yin and yang for the vital energy and blood to flow smoothly. One must not be too hot or too cold; one must find a stable equilibrium in the middle to allow the body to function steadily.

Healing the Mind to Heal the Body

The ancient healing methods of Chinese medicine involve providing warming tonics to bodies that are too cold and cooling remedies to those that are too dry. This is how traditional medicine harmonises the human body. If one can also align the heart and achieve spiritual balance, the body can be regulated even more effectively. However, patients with deep-seated roots of illness do not understand this principle. They always hope to rely on the reputation of a miracle doctor to completely eradicate their diseases while continuing to use their evil hearts, evil thoughts, and selfish intentions to persist in their wrong paths and deviant actions. This is not only unacceptable in traditional medicine, but the ancient scriptures of the sages also clearly state that this is undoubtedly a path to self-destruction. For a patient who is determined to die, even a miracle doctor is helpless. I have hinted and even explicitly told these patients with deep-seated illnesses—the Prime Minister and the Prefect were relatively well-known examples—but there were many more like them.

I once attempted to treat several influential people who had the power to change a region, yet I suffered greatly for it. The Prime Minister was a powerful warlord of his time. I kept thinking that if I could make him understand the principle of adjusting his mind and thoughts and correcting his deviant heart and actions, it might bring help to his country.

The Consequences of Ignoring the Truth

However, perhaps his roots of illness were truly too deep; no matter how I counselled him, he did not understand. I explained to him that his illness was difficult to cure because the key lay in adjusting his character and correcting his deviant actions. If he could not make a genuine adjustment, no disease could ever be truly cured. He did not adopt my approach. After I left, his illness inevitably relapsed, and he repeatedly summoned me back to treat him. Yet, how could there be a good outcome for an illness that cannot be cured? This is the situation of deep-seated roots of illness; it would not improve simply because of my medical techniques. Eventually, I had no choice but to avoid his summons, which ultimately led to my own death.

In truth, I knew that after many years of practising medicine, I did not always maintain an Upright Heart and Right Mind. Sometimes, I carried a measure of selfishness—whether it was the achievement and fame brought by healing others, or the act of forcibly treating patients who were not meant to be healed. These things accumulated and became the reason for my gradual decline. The case of the Prime Minister is indeed a warning. By treating him, I had to bear the consequences of the deviant actions he committed in the world, and because of this, I died in prison at the young age of sixty-three. Before I died, I wanted to pass on my medical skills, but I also let things take their natural course. After all, merely learning my medical techniques does not mean one has truly mastered my medicine. True medicine lies in healing the human heart.

The Path of the True Healer

Some people in the world, whom I refused to treat or avoided, labelled me as eccentric or arrogant. I did not care about these labels; in fact, such descriptions made it easier for me to decline them. The illnesses of these patients could not be cured, and they had no opportunity to truly understand how to heal themselves. As a healer, I still tried my best to counsel them. But if these people were stubborn and even used my medical skills as an excuse to continue their original, illness-inducing personalities, I would stay away. I would not give them the opportunity to excuse their own character, which was also my way of giving them a chance to wake up to themselves.

After I died, my spirit leaving the body was not restricted by the prison, as I had held a heart to save the world and savebeings while practising medicine. I entered the space of the medical deities. I continued to search for doctors who, like me, possessed a truly benevolent heart and a sincere desire to heal, and I continued to help them practise medicine everywhere. I took the opportunity to guide them, helping them understand the natural principles that a true healer must follow. I also let them realise, in the unseen realms, that to heal a disease, one must heal the heart—one must heal the human heart—to truly solve the problem at its root.

The Modern Medical Dilemma

As I travelled through the space of the last millennium, helping people in the form of a spirit, I found that the closer we got to modern times, the harder it was for me to be of help. In modern China, although there are still many doctors with a truly benevolent heart, the overall system and medical environment do not allow these benevolent healers to have much influence.

Most medical forms and systems differ slightly across dynasties, but there are always times when medical resources are controlled by authorities and the powerful, or when medical guilds monopolise resources. In such times, the broader medical environment tends to treat medicine as a way to make a living, and the true healing of the human heart is placed second. This difference of just one position is a vast distance indeed.

Current medical practice advocates treating the head when the head hurts and the foot when the foot hurts. For a single root of illness, they use so-called miracle drugs to prescribe the right medicine for the symptoms. However, this illness is not a heart-sickness; it is merely a superficial symptom. Such treatment methods cannot truly eradicate the root of the illness. Instead, the side effects left behind after the administration of powerful drugs place an even greater burden on the human body. Many in the medical profession know this, but they always think that as long as the side effects are within an acceptable range, the drug can be adopted once it passes experiments.

The Ripple Effect of Karma

They do not realise that the side effects of these drugs cannot be concluded by looking at a single reaction. If one takes such drugs for a long time, or receives treatment from such a medical system for a long time, the accumulation of these medicinal roots in the human body will produce more illnesses that are beyond their consideration. Seeing this from the deep space, I feel very sad. However, there is a barrier between spaces, and their hearts are not in sync with mine, so I cannot convey these truths to them. I have seen many medical students with an initial intention to save the world and help people, but in the vast environment of the medical world, they are gradually influenced and slowly forget their original intention. This is truly a pity.

After all, no matter what actions are taken in medicine, as long as they deviate from the natural principles of the universe, they will inevitably return to oneself. One can see that many authoritative figures in the medical world, throughout history, have ended up suffering from the very diseases related to their own professional expertise. Is this not highly ironic? How could such professional doctors not know they were suffering from related diseases? This is not to say that treating such diseases for others will necessarily make the patient suffer, but the prerequisite is that one must be able to follow the natural principles and laws.

If a patient cannot make adjustments themselves and cannot transform their own character, then the root of the illness cannot be forcibly removed, because this does not conform to the natural principles of the universe. Many Taoist texts, the I Ching, and related books like the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor mention these concepts. Many scholars of traditional Chinese medicine, and even Western medicine, know these principles, but they do not thoroughly understand the true essence of them.

Ascending to the Dharma-Nature Land

I was saved by Practitioner Su and, during the time Amitabha Buddha used his twelve rays of golden light to perform Chao Du for various spaces in China, I followed his powerful Chao Du and was saved to the Dharma-Nature Land. This bright world is far higher in level than the space of the medical deities. How can I tell? It is in the transparency of this space. In the realm of the medical deities, I could perceive the transparency and brightness of various spaces; the purer and simpler they were, the higher the level of the space. The darker, greyer, or deeper the space, the more complex and profound it was—to me, this was a darker type of space.

Now, in the Dharma-Nature Land, I also know that those are spaces belonging to personal attachment or demon nature. In the bright magnetic field of the Dharma-Nature Land, my spirit is clearer and more transparent, and I can more clearly learn things I could not perceive in my original space. I still uphold the philosophy of saving the world and helping others as I observe and understand this world. Only then did I better understand that the symptoms and anomalies I observed before were actually all coming from the dark magnetic fields of the cells' generation space.

Every space within the space is like the one I am currently in; every space also contains many beings, and the magnetic fields and mental notes of these beings bring about different changes in the body. The brightness or darkness of the mental notes and character of each patient will affect the brightness and darkness of the beings within our bodies, the internal space, the beings, the character, and the magnetic field. Once a grey magnetic field appears among the beings within our bodies, it means that the patient's own mental notes have already deviated. This deviation then attracts and awakens this group of grey beings within our bodies, which in turn affects the function of every cell in the body, and even the internal organs.

Once the body's functions fall into imbalance and the harmony of yin and yang is disrupted, it becomes impossible to maintain physical health. Various symptoms will inevitably manifest on the surface, such as swelling, heat, pain, soreness, weakness, dizziness, sharp shooting pains, spasms, or blurred vision. Patients often struggle to understand the root cause of these ailments; they only perceive that a specific area has become abnormal and feel that they must take medication to resolve it. However, they cannot truly comprehend the existence of the sentient beings within these cellular spaces, nor how their presence is actively damaging their organs.

The Great Physician of the Universe

Namo Amituofo is the Great Physician. You may have encountered this title in Buddhist scriptures, yet most people in this world dismiss it as mere rhetoric or an empty, illusory praise for the Buddha. In reality, this is not the case. True illness stems from the multitude of dark, grey sentient beings residing within the body. Only the Buddha, as the Great Physician, possesses the power to resolve the conflicts with these beings, persuading them to cease their negative influence on the body. Those who are willing to reconcile may even be guided to depart from the body and be reborn elsewhere. This is the principle of healing illnesses from the very root. Even the processes of aging and death are influenced by these spirits. Without the teachings of Namo Amituofo, I would still be only partially informed. Even after spending so long in the realm of medical deities and knowing of the existence of these spirits, I could not grasp that the density of these spirits and the entanglement of their causal conditions across many lifetimes were so profound and far-reaching.

The Infinite Depth of the Dharma Realm

It was only after arriving at the Dharma-Nature Land that I gained a deeper understanding of the issue of sentient beings; it is far from as simple as I had imagined. In the past, when I forcefully saved patients who were unwilling to adjust their character, the resulting physical discomfort I experienced was actually the backlash from these spirits. Initially, I imagined that one or two dark magnetic fields or spirits were seeking revenge against me. What I overlooked was that such spirits within the body are not merely one or two. Do not be overly alarmed, but there are as many spirits as there are cells in your body. Furthermore, for every sub-structure and sub-component within those cells, there are corresponding spirits, and even within the most minute and subtle structures, spirits reside. From this, you can imagine just how many sentient beings are within the body. I cannot answer this number myself; even with my current level of spiritual sensitivity, I still cannot observe it completely. I can only say that the Buddha’s teachings are truly vast and profound; only the Buddha can clearly see every single sentient being.

The Universal Buddha

When listening to Practitioner Su give Dharma talks, he refers to Namo Amituofo as the Universal Buddha. At first, I did not pay much attention, nor did I fully understand the meaning of this phrase. However, once I understood that the countless cells and sub-structural spaces within the body are all filled with sentient beings, and that the Universal Buddha can encompass them all, it became clear. When sentient beings are in need of help and their Causal Conditions for salvation have matured, the Universal Buddha appears in that space, breaking through the limitations of space to rescue these spirits and lead them into the Dharma-Nature Land. The space I previously inhabited was a relatively obscure and hidden divine realm, and it was Practitioner Su’s act of salvation, carrying the power of Namo Amituofo to break through space, that gave me the opportunity to depart.

The True Medicine for the Heart

It is a great pity that when I, Hua Tuo, was alive, I did not have the opportunity to encounter the Buddha’s teachings. To be precise, I did not have the chance to encounter the Great Dharma of Namo Amituofo. Although I did hear rumors of a new religion from the Western Land beginning to spread in some areas, it did not capture my attention at the time. After all, I viewed it as merely a religion and did not think it would be of any help to medicine. Instead, I focused on classical books, believing that the writings of ancient sages were more capable of improving the human heart and aiding in medical treatment. Now I know that the Buddha’s teachings are the true, Great Physician’s method—the only way to prescribe the right medicine for the human heart and treat illness from its very root. This also shatters the long-held misconception that the Buddha’s teachings are merely a religion.

The Highest Form of Healing

Practitioner Su always says that the Buddha’s teachings of Namo Amituofo are an education—a fundamental method for educating the human heart and improving character. I must add that the Buddha’s teachings are not just education; they are the most sophisticated form of medical art. Just as everyone calls Namo Amituofo the Great Physician, anyone who learns the Buddha’s teachings has effectively learned this profound medical art. You can not only heal yourself, sparing yourself from aging, sickness, and death, but you can also promote it, allowing more people to recognize the brilliance of this medical art and, in turn, stop the process of aging and avoid illness.

The Immortality of the Spirit

Although death is a necessary process for the physical body, the spirit does not die. Just as I, Hua Tuo, saw my body die in prison, my spirit instantly ascended to the realm of medical deities. This situation confirms that the spirit is indeed immortal. However, being immortal does not mean one can escape space or suffering. If Namo Amituofo had not created the Western Land of Ultimate Bliss, these spirits would still be lost, not knowing where to go. During this time, Practitioner Su opened up the space of China’s five thousand to ten thousand years of history and discovered that, in truth, all spirits are lost and do not know where to turn. As a physician, I had long realized this in my practice, because no matter how I treated patients, people could not avoid the process of aging, sickness, and death. My medical care only delayed this process; it could not fundamentally avoid it. What, then, was the purpose of my medical art existing in the world? If one cannot solve these problems at the root, even the best doctor and the most brilliant medical art seem to have little significance.

A Call to Fellow Healers

I am fortunate to have encountered the Great Physician’s method of Namo Amituofo. Now, in the Dharma-Nature Land, I understand that this is the fundamental method that can truly help the many suffering people in the world. I hope that those who, like me, are truly dedicated to healing others—those with a benevolent heart and skilled hands—can understand that the compassion of this Great Physician is the method to save all beings. I hope you can learn with an open mind, set aside your previous prejudices regarding your own medical skills, and truly open yourselves to learn anew.

The method of the Great Physician will allow you to achieve greater breakthroughs in your medical practice. In truth, the point is not what level of skill you reach; the point is to truly be able to help people completely escape the predicament of aging, sickness, and death. This is what a physician should truly be doing.

I am grateful to Namo Amituofo and Practitioner Su for giving me, Hua Tuo, the opportunity to introduce my medical career to everyone. The many legends and various fabrications in folk culture do not actually affect my true heart for healing. However, the widespread reputation of being a divine physician has increased my sense of responsibility and duty to counsel the world. Therefore, I take this opportunity, through these words of counsel to the world, to allow everyone to gain a new realization.

Gratitude to Namo Amituofo. Gratitude to Practitioner Su.

Namo Amituofo

Hua Tuo