Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute

2210 McKinley Avenue, Unit 4 (1 minute walk from Downtown Berkeley BART 1 block west of Martin Luther King, between Allston and Bancroft across from Bank of America Public Parking Lot - Click here for directions), Berkeley, California, 94703 USA
(1) 510-292-6696 - Please CALL US, no e-mail available (Namo AT Shurangama.com).

Non-Profit Religious Organization of the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute

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The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute (Medicine Buddha Healing Center) declare and acknowledge that the religious Association (Church), that is to say the Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple is in no way under the jurisdiction of any government (federal, state, or local). This means that the religious Association (Church), that is to say the Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple is in no way under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the Social Security Administration, the California State Medical Board, or the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education. Any attempt by any government or private agent or agency to regulate our above described religious educational practices and spiritual practices is in violation of our now declared First[1], Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Amendment Constitutional rights. Notice is hereby given to any person(s) who, acting under the color of the law, intentionally interferes with the free exercise of the rights retained by our Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple and its Pastoral Counselors, congregation, and members under the First, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Amendments, as enumerated in these Articles of Association and Organization and in our Pastoral Counselor’s Declaration of First Amendment Constitutional Rights (Section C2.14) and Pastoral Counselor’s Declaration of First, Fourth, Sixth and Ninth Amendment Constitutional Rights (Section C2.15), that they may be in violation of the Pastoral Counselor’s civil and constitutional rights, Title 42, U.S.C. 1983 et seq. and Title 18, Section 241. We hereby declare, all rights reserved without prejudice.

[1] “The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Handbook 7.8.2 Exempt Organizations Technical Guidelines Handbook, Chap. 3, Religious, Charitable, Educational, Etc., Organizations, Tax Professional’s Corner of the Digital Daily of the Internal Revenue Service, Internet web site URL: http://www.irs.gov/prod/bus_info/tax_pro/irm-part/section/36070a.html, Section [7.8.2] 3.6.1 (02-23-1999) “Constitutional Considerations”: p. 37.

Here is the entire text of our Articles of Association in Microsoft Word format: 2.1 MB

Here is the entire text of our February 3, 2003 response to a request for information from the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education who has no jurisdiction over us as stated by their employee Mr. Fred Lopez. If we were not a religious school that is part of a Church, them we would still not be be required to get accreditation with the California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education since we offer our classes entirely based on donations. No student is ever turned away due to lack of funds.

“Aum Namo Bhagavaté Bhaisajya Guru Vaidurya Prabaha Rajaya Tathagataya Arhaté Samyaksambodhi Tadyata Aum Bhaisajé Bhaisajé Bhaisajya Samudgaté Svaha!”
“Om Namo Ratna Trayaya! Namo Avalokiteshvaraya Bodhisattva!”
Guan Yin's Dharani Sutra Hand and Eye Mantra #16: "Syi lu seng e me chywe ye. Nan. Wei la ye. Wei la ye. Sa wa he."
Guan Yin's Vajra Pestle Hand and Eye Mantra #6: "Swo la swo la. Nan. Wa dz la jr ning. Bwo la ni bwo dwo ye. Sa wa he."

We chant the Medicine Buddha Mantra, the Great Compassion Mantra, and the Shurangama Mantra on any occasion and in between for healing ourselves and our world from the Great Illness: ignorance.

"It is a sad time for the world. We must realize that this great illness we experience at this time in not isolated to the USA or the Middle East or even the invisible Terrorists. This illness that is so evident today is rooted way back in time and will continue to reach far into the future until every being comes to the great realization that greed, anger/hatred, self-centered hypocrisy and confusion are the true enemies of humanity and of all living beings. Wherever it may originate or wherever it may be directed, it is this enemy that we must overcome. So let us begin within ourselves.

"We ourselves are the great medicine for the great illness".

Version 1:
Tayata Om Bekanze
Bekanze Maha BeKanze
Radza Samudgate Soha

Version 2:
Om namo bhagawate Bhaishjaye guru
vaidurya prabha rajaya tathagataya
arhate samyaksam buddhaya teyatha
om bekhajye bekhajye maha bekhajye
bekhajye rajaya samungate svaha

The mantra means:
Auspicious one!
I prostrate to you, King of lapis lazuli,
who has conquered the cycle of birth, aging, sickness and death,
who has gone to the state of the Buddha's, the supreme physician,
who is perfectly awakened, the enlightened One,
Medicine Buddha, King of all physicians.

1 om : auspicious one
2 namo : prostration
3 bhagawate : the victorious
4 Bhaishjaye : medicine Buddha
5 guru : spiritual master
6 vaidurya prabha rajaya: king of lapis lazuli
7 tathagataya : the one gone to the state of the buddhas
8 arhate : one who has conquered the cycle of birth, aging,sickness and death
9 samyaksam buddhaya : perfectly enlightened
10 teyatha : like this
11 om : auspicious one
12 bekhajye bekhajye : two times calling the name of medicine buddha
13 maha bekhajye : supreme physician
14 bekhajye rajaya : king of physicians
15 samungate : perfectly awakened
16 svaha : to relinquish

Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute

Conformed Copy of the Articles of Association and Organization Ratified by the Council of Pastoral Counselors and the Board of Directors of The Medicine Buddha Wholistic Ministry (aka The Medicine Buddha Healing Center and Temple [aka Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute] ),
Albuquerque, New Mexico and Berkeley, California

1^st Revision, adopted, accepted and
ratified by the Founding Board of Directors on July 4^th, 2000

2^nd Revision, adopted, accepted and
ratified by the Board of Directors on September 11^th, 2002 at 5:05 PM.

Preamble

We the undersigned members and founders of the non-profit Buddhist Church called the Medicine Buddha Wholistic Ministry® (MBWM), also legally referred to as the Medicine Buddha Healing Center® (MBHC) and Temple or simply as the Medicine Buddha Healing Center® and as the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute® (AHAI), being and sound mind and body, responding in faith to the call of our Spiritual Head: the Medicine Master Buddha, and the God of Wisdom Ganesha, and, to the call of the early fifth century B.C. founder of the Buddhist religion: Gautama Shakyamuni Buddha, and to the compassionate spiritual healing calls of the Exalted Buddhist Saints: Supreme Healer Bodhisattva, King of Healing Bodhisattva, Guan Yin (Indian Avalokiteshvara, Tibetan Chen Rezig) Great Compassion Bodhisattva, Manjushri Great Wisdom Bodhisattva, and to the Buddhist educational call of our teacher the Venerable Buddhist Master Hsuan Hua of the Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas and the Dharma Realm Buddhist University (www.DRBA.org) desiring to unite together to worship these Healing Buddhas and Sage Bodhisattvas, to bestow the traditional Chinese-Tibetan-Indian Buddhist Healing Ceremonies, Rituals, Sacraments, and Liturgies, and to carry out the Mission of the Medicine Buddha and all the great Saint Healing Bodhisattvas of Buddhism, in order to form a non-profit religious church as a legally binding Non-Incorporated Association under the laws of the State of New Mexico and the State of California, certify as follows and do hereby adopt these Articles of Association and Organization, our founding and legal governing instrument and solemnly pledge ourselves to be governed by its provisions. In the name of the Medicine Buddha and Healing Bodhisattvas, the Gods and Goddesses of the Heavenly Realms and the Great Dharma Protecting Spirits. So may it be.

Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute

Dedication and Transfer of Merit

The Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute® and the Medicine Buddha Healing Center® would like to acknowledge and offer its sincere appreciation to the Medicine Master Buddha (Bhaisajya Guru Vaidurya Prabaha Buddha in Sanskrit [also called Senjya Menla in Tibetan and Yao Shi Fohw in Chinese]), and to the Venerable Buddhist Master Hsuan Hua, the founding Abbot of the Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (www.DRBA.org) and the Dharma Master of Buddhist Sutras (scriptures), Mantras (chants and prayers), Meditation, and Precepts who along with Clown Bodhisattva Patch Adams inspired us to create the Medicine Buddha Healing Center and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute. The Venerable Master Hsuan Hua’s pure devotion to the Buddha, the Buddha’s Teachings (Dharma) and the practitioners of Buddhism (Sangha) and his tireless effort to translate into English, Spanish and other languages the truths found in the ancient Buddhist Sutras without compromising its spiritual messages remain as a constant inspiration for the staff, volunteers, congregation, Pastoral Counselors, faculty and founders of this Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple. As such, we honor the Venerable Master Hua’s memory, by this dedication.

We also wish to acknowledge the all of those whose dedication and insight brought the knowledge of Buddhist Ayurveda to the Planet, especially to our teachers including the renowned Ayurvedic Physician Dr. Vasant Lad, B.A.M.S., M.A.Sc. (founder of the Ayurvedic Institute – www.Ayurveda.com) and others who lovingly showed the way and shared their knowledge and experience, and to all the friends and staff at the Ayurvedic Institute without whose contributions the Medicine Buddha Healing Center and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute would not exist.

Verse of Transference of Merit

May the merit and virtue accrued from this work,
Adorn the Buddhas’ Pure Lands,
Repaying the four kinds of kindness above
And aiding the those suffering in the paths below.
May those who see and hear of this,
All bring forth the resolve for Bodhi,
And when this retribution body is over,
Be born together in the Land of Ultimate Bliss.

May every living being, our minds as one and radiant with light,
share the fruits of peace, with heart of goodness, luminous and bright.
If people hear and see, how hands and hearts can find in giving unity,
may their minds awake, to Great Compassion, wisdom and to joy.
May kindness find reward; may all who sorrow leave their grief and pain;
may this boundless light break the darkness of their endless night.
Because our hearts are one, this world of pain turns into Paradise;
may all become compassionate and wise; may all become compassionate and wise.

Chapter 2 – Declaration of Religious Faith, Practices and Constitutional Rights 24

Declaration of Faith – Ministry, Center, Temple and Pastoral Counselor’s Detailed Declaration of First Amendment Constitutional Rights 24

Showing Respect for Sutra Scriptures and Sacred Literature of the Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple 27

Ancient Scriptural Language and Sacred Text Study Abroad: A Formal Buddhist Missionary Exchange Program 29

Programs, Retreats and Ancient Buddhist Religious Holidays Celebrated by the Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple 29

Declaration of Belief in Health and Balance in Body-Mind-Spirit and the Path to Its Attainment as a Constitutionally Protected and Natural Right 33

Declaration of Belief in Divine Spirit and the Religiously Inspired and Divinely Directed Ministerial Path of our Pastoral Counselors as a Constitutionally Protected Right 33

Pastoral Counselor’s Are Not Practicing Medicine, But Are Practicing Religion: State of New Mexico Medical Practice Act’s Religious Tenet Exclusions and Exemptions 40

Pastoral Counselors Are Not Practicing Medicine, But Are Practicing Religion: FDA’s DSHEA Act and other regulations 41

Pastoral Counselors Are Not Practicing Medicine, But Are Practicing Religion: State of New Mexico Oriental Medicine Practice Act Religious Tenet Exclusions and Exemptions 43

Pastoral Counselor’s Are Not Practicing Nutrition or Dietetics, But Are Practicing Religion 44

Pastoral Counselor’s Declaration of First, Fourth, Sixth, and Ninth Amendment Constitutional Rights and Rights Conferred by Article I, Section X of the U.S. Constitution (Part of the Informed Consent and Full Disclosure Online Document) 44

Moral Precepts Sacrament of the Medicine Buddha Wholistic Ministry (MBWM) and the Medicine Buddha Healing Center (MBHC) and Temple: Adhering to Biblical and Buddhist Scriptural Standards of Conduct 50

Declaration of Respect for the Earth and All Living Beings and of Pacifist and Conscientious Objector Status: 53

The Medicine Buddha Wholistic Ministry (MBWM) and the Medicine Buddha Healing Center (MBHC) and Temple Pastoral Counselors Refrain from Drugs and Intoxicants: 54

Declaration of Religious Non-Support of and Non-Participation in the Social Security and of Natural and Constitutional Rights to Practice “Pastoral Care” and “Well-Being Healing Services” 55

Declaration of Natural and Constitutional Rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Religious Well-Being Healing Arts Practices) 58

Nature of the Church (Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple, and its Congregation) 60

Statement of Religious Purposes, Beliefs and Practices of the Church (Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple, and its Congregation) 60

The Founder and Lineage of the Church (Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple, and its Congregation) 61

Facilities of the Medicine Buddha Wholistic Ministry (MBWM), the Medicine Buddha Healing Center (MBHC) and Temple, and the Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute (AHAI) 63

Statement of Purpose of the Church (Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple, and its Congregation) 66

No Private Benefit or Inurement by the Church or Its Congregation and Management 80

Non-Discriminatory Policy of this Congregation, Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple, and its Pastoral Counselors 90

Pastoral Counselors (Ministers) of the Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple 90

The Board of Directors of the Church (Non-Incorporated Non-Profit Association) – The Ministry, Institute, Center and Temple 97

Parsonage Allowance for the President of the Council of Pastoral Counselors (The Rector) 123

Exclusively Religious Purpose, Organization and Actions of the Medicine Buddha Wholistic Ministry (MBWM) and the Medicine Buddha Healing Center (MBHC) and Temple: 133

Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute
of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center

Preamble

Dedication and Transfer of Merit

Verse of Transference of Merit

Table of Contents

Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center

Preamble

Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute

Dedication and Transfer of Merit

Verse of Transference of Merit

Table of Contents

Ayurveda Healing Arts Institute
of the Medicine Buddha Healing Center