The Parable of the Skillful Physician and His Sick Children can be understood from the perspective that being born in this Saha world is the act of taking poison. We are born forgetting our eternal connection to the Eternal Buddha. We are unaware of the truth of our Buddhahood potential residing in the core of our lives. As Buddhists, our life is the journey to rediscovery of that truth – the realization of the good medicine.