Inspirational Practice from My Master(2) [translation]

上师行教（二）

Inspirational Practice from My Master(2) [translation]

Mosquitoes question again?

Recently, it has been raining. i found the apartment I am residing was visiting by a lot of mosquitoes for days, thus those evenings I could smell the mosquitoes spray gas blowing through wind to my residence. I looked at my own arms and legs -  I have ‘donated’ some blood to them in 2-3days  as the mosquito repellent liquid plucked on the wall has used up more days ago. As a Buddhist, it is difficult to justify intentional killing of insects as rational people would say we need ‘wisdom’ since certain ‘species’ may be harmful to human beings. Ask anyone around locally - who has not known of someone suffered from ‘denggi fever’ or suspected of this infectious tropical disease?

About 2 months ago when my master Kunde Rinpoche was preparing his dharma activities documents, slides, video at his office (also my little living space), they were many mosquitoes for a few days.  When I saw his 2 arms with many red bums of mosquitoes bites, I felt sorry and did not know what to do. He consoled me it was alright for him. Much later we noticed there were some mosquitoes died due to ‘over sucked’ and the body too heavy to fly! Then I saw the Master picked those ‘dead beings’ up, gazed with his silent prayer and put them away to avoid my careless footsteps on them. He said to me in gentle and soft voice that it is alright for him they were too full hence their body became too heavy to fly and thus suffered! (我是没有什么的咯，但是它们吃太饱了很辛苦！) – I felt more than touched, very move by his compassion. In a strange way, my fear towards this sentient beings dissipated….. -  since then, I felt it is not enough to just do my Buddhist chanting occasionally, transfer merits to all sentient beings… even under unforeseen circumstances, it is not easy to co-exist with such living beings irrespective of big or small?

Tashi delek

上师行教（一）[Inspirational Practice from My Master(1)]

上师行教（一）

一日贡德仁波切在本地一家私立医院照顾才皈依不久的一位老人佛友，慈悲以替代五位受海外大学教育因父亲不随入信主和个人因缘，没有及时给予心灵上之扶持。一日老人的一位女儿刚到访医院，见到在场的尊者，用食指向尊者指着从上至下（?)：you?Monk [你？和尚]，后把一张？元钞票往尊者手咎塞，尊者只头低下说‘不要’（很像俗语说‘委屈求全’？），双臂依然置放于身体前面。弟子听一位友人后述说此景，她适时至在场亲睹，后赶忙解围，听此境描述后令弟子感动不已，忍辱易写易讲却不易行！- 相对之下，对自己如在相似情景之下可能连一分不如的忍辱力感到非常惭愧！- 顶礼上师， 祈愿上师贡德仁波切广度丛生，佛光普照！

[translation]

Inspirational Practice from My Master(1)

One day Kunde Rinpoche stayed in a private hospital to take care of a senior friend who had just taken refuge not long ago, compassionately replacing the 5 children who were educated overseas but cos’ of religious differences and personal conditions unable to visit and provided the needed spiritual supports. Later one day one of his daughters managed to visit him at the hospital, upon reaching and seeing Rinpoche la, she pointed with her index finger from top to bottom(?): you?Monk? Then she push a note (?dollars) into the arms of the Venerable, Rinpoche la who shook his head bowed down and said ‘no  need’(Chinese saying: tolerant to maintain wholeness?), both arms still post in front of his body. When sonam yeshi heard from a friend who witnessed the situation and shared the episode, she was very moved, tolerance is much easier to write and preach than to practice! – In comparison, under such circumstances, self may not even have one percent of such tolerant virtue, and personally felt regretful! – I prostrate to the Guru, May my Master, Kunde Rinpoche sustained impeccable efforts for all Sentient Beings thus be shined in the Light of the Dharma!

Tashi Delek 吉祥如意

与善知识对话 - 上师与弟子(1) [Dialogue with My Spiritual Friend(1)]

与善知识对话 - 上师与弟子

有一日，上师问弟子：

上师问： 如果有一日我不能走路了，您会怎样？

弟子答：我会把您送到山洞修行！

弟子好奇，也问回上师：

弟子问：如果有一日我不能走路了，您会怎样？

上师答：我会背着您，跟随我所去之向。

弟子听后惭愧不已，下定决心无论路如何难走及遇到任何阻扰，也会跟随上师学习及辅助尊者发心之弘法工作！

[translation:]

Dialogue with my Spiritual Friend: The Master and student

One day my Master asked student:

Master: what would you do if one day I could not walk?

Student: I would send master to the cave for practice.

The student then felt curious and asked back the same question:

Student: what would you do if one day I could not walk?

Master: I would carry you wherever I go.

The student after hearing such felt shameful and decided that no matter how difficult and challenges along the road, she would persist in the dharma practice and assisting the Master’s aspiration in His Dharma works.

 

 

Dealing with Incidental Travel Hiccup

posted by sonam yeshi

My Teacher, Rinpoche la was travelling alone from India to Bhutan in a train, in such short time to the rest room (toilet), his travelling luggage undearneat his seat (which he thought is safe) could be just been stolen without the awareness of others. Obviously, someone in the same couch disappeared. Moreover, the other coachmates remained just trying to sit on the fence. Probably the traveller does not look alike in characteristics, and an obvious travller! All travel documents and cash you may think is the safest place to put in such public space could be just like any other similar theft incidences we encoutered or heard of which may be out of our imagination.

On top of this, the most trusted authority nearest to where one lost the luggaged pushed this practitioner away to another police station and to another place, thus for the whole day Rinpoche la was referred here and there from one police station to another - this is a real case of lack of civic-mindedness and considerations. This case is an eye opener for travellers which may be seasoning travelling a land he regards like his own home, and 'so far so safe' and taking for granted people around him are human beings.

My question was - Did those authorities personnel been approached by a helpless traveller consciously try to excute law entrusted without fear or favor, irrespective the traveller is own citizen or not? Is the simple act of allowing or assisting a traveller to make a simple police report he needs to facilitate the documentation of his travelling pass being replacement such difficult? - In such case, it was really a bad image and shame of the responsible personnels who are empowered to uphold security and justice by its government!

But the Rinpoche is such calm and gentle. I do wish he could be 'fierceful' a little with uncivilized authority who has no heart with reason 'this is not our duty in this station! (at least exert the duty of basic protection as a legal traveller) - then why do we have police stations in any country? Aren't they belong to the same government? How could an enforcement authority been such immuned for a request of theft report in public space which involved travelling documents? Don't they understand there are other records available in other systems such as airline check-in luggage etc. and train tickets records in one's computer system? Personally, i think it is not a matter of compassion towards the criminal but to protect the innocent and to uphold the basic security in an environment.

I am posting it to share this experience of my Teacher which happened on 4 October 2012 in a train at India to Bhutan. It is also a reminder and a lesson to all of us when travelling alone in particular, there were 'hugry ghosts' around us, we do not need to understand whether there is really such a realm exist in our cosmology!

Reflecting on the Buddha's Teachings, the mind's lessoned learned : watch our own mind, we may become hungry ghost too if we do not guard our fergile mind?
"To Do Good, To Avoid Evils, This is the Teachings of the Buddhas!" - simple phrase but profound ethical, humane meaning for mind training.

Tashi Delek!