Namaste, Bhikkhuji. Awhile back, I was told that there was a group of
Buddhists in Taiwan, who drank their own urine and had a scriptural
quote in which the Buddha recommended that urine be one's only
medicine. I went to a website where the entire Tipitaka in English
was online, with a "search" function, so I searched for "urine", and
found indirect reference to urine as a medicine, but not the passage
in which the Buddha actually recommended it.

I was attracted more to Mahayana for its Tantras, and I am the first
to suggest that Tantra, when stripped of all its symbolic jibberish,
is really another form of Urine Therapy, but obviously for a man and
woman together. For this reason, I was searching for any reference to
urine fasting by the Buddha in the Tipitaka.

The Tibetans have their own story about the "Medicine Buddha". He sat
under the Bodhi Tree in the "Medicine Jungle" for four years, and was
fed by the "Medicine Woman". I figure a good four year urine fast,
exchanging the Advaitamrita (the Eucharist of Non-Separation), would
just about do it. The Bible states that: (Paraphrasing) "In those
ancient days, every man sat under his own tree (or fig tree)". Simple
enough that the Vedic "Soma Pavamana (Pure Food)" was Urine Therapy
and that we ourselves are the "Tree of Life". The Satapatha Brahmana
states: "Soma is seed. Soma is urine."

Urine Tantra became even better known to Hindus and Christians, but
today they have lost it and cannot find it. So, we plod along with
Urine Therapy for one person only. Even that would not exist without
the experimental research done by the founder of modern Urine
Therapy, John W. Armstrong, author of "The Water of Life (look it up
in the Bible): A Treatise on Urine Therapy". Similarly, Shivambu
(Urine) Tantra will be discredited by "kaliman" until it also has
many documented case histories and even after that. Namo Buddhaya! -
Dr. J.


From: Kumaara Bhikkhu <venkumara@...>
Date: Sat Jul 9, 2005 11:15 pm
Subject: Buddha & UT {Re: boil to a quarter {Re: [shivambu] Digest
Number 233}} venkumara


Thank you for answering my question.

At 01:46 PM 06-07-05, you wrote:
>Have you found, in the Pali
>Tipitaka, where the Buddha recommends urine therapy? - Dr. Jhani
>Picasso

I suppose that you recognize me as a Buddhist monk by my name.

There are a few places in the Pali Canon whereby the Buddha is said
to have
asked his monks to use urine as medicine. The most prominent one
would probably
be in the post-ordination procedure, although it adds that other
medicine are
also allowed.

The thing that struck me was that the Buddha, in the later part of his
"ministry", allowed many other kinds of medicine (as found in the
Medicine
Chapter of Vinaya Pitaka). This means that in the beginning, it is
likely that
his ordained disciples relied *only* on urine.. Furthermore, when
other kinds of
medicine (ghee, honey, roots, leaves, barks, fruits, etc.) are
allowed, he
stilled asked the monks to be contented with urine as medicine. This
seems to
imply that urine can be used to treat all kinds of illnesses.

Presently, Buddhist monks living in the wilderness (even those who
had been
brought up in a modern world) quite commonly use urine as medicine as
it is very
convenient for them.

Unfortunately, there are no records on the application of urine. So,
I'm now
looking into this with the help of other sources, which is why I
joined this
group.


peace

Kumāra Bhikkhu