1306：Appreciation to the Guru for Compassionately Rescuing My Family

Prostrations to His Eminence Vajra Guru Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, His Holiness the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang, Dharma Protector Achi, the Lineage gurus, and the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Greetings, fellow believers and Dharma brothers, I am Du Meng Zhen of Group One, and my Dharma name is Hui Bo Drolma. My elder sister is Du Li Wen of Group Four. I am grateful to His Eminence Vajra Guru Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche for granting me to publicly praise the guru’s merits, how he has helped my family, and to repent the evil karma I have committed from accumulated past lifetimes. 

The fate of seeking an audience with His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche arose from my mother’s health. She originally had arrhythmia, and once, a cold triggered pulmonary edema, causing heart failure. She was hospitalized for over three weeks, and after being discharged from the hospital, her heart remained weak, and she lacked the strength to speak. Later, my colleague, who was also my introducer, Dharma brother Chen from Group Six, mentioned to me that I could seek an audience with His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche and implore Rinpoche for help. She also told me that I could visit the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center website to read the “Traces of Liberating Beings” section, of which the content is all about the traces of how Rinpoche has helped sentient beings. When I read the content of Traces of Liberating Beings, I tried to stop but couldn’t, finding myself uncontrollably reading one article after another. At the same time, I felt extremely dazzled and found it incredible that, astonishingly, in this world, there exists such a highly powerful practitioner who compassionately and selflessly helps sentient beings. Thus, the thought of seeking an audience with Rinpoche arose in my mind.
 
When I first sought an audience with Rinpoche, I was extremely irreverent, coming alone to implore Rinpoche to help my sick mother. At that time, Rinpoche asked whether my mother could walk. I answered that she could. Rinpoche then expounded, “Since your mother could walk, why did you not bring your mother to come personally? A patient, when seeing a doctor, also needs to go in person.” I am grateful for Rinpoche’s teachings and repent for my irreverence towards the guru and the Three Jewels. Later, I brought my mother to seek an audience with Rinpoche, imploring him for blessings. Rinpoche bestowed my mother a precious nectar pill to take and blessed her. My mother said that initially, she felt there was a stone pressing on her heart; after seeking an audience with Rinpoche, her heart got unweighted, and she felt profoundly comfortable. I am grateful to Rinpoche!

When I first brought my mother to seek an audience with Rinpoche, I implored Rinpoche to permit me to attend the Chod Puja, and I am grateful that Rinpoche compassionately granted permission. After attending the Chod Puja for half a year, I implored to take refuge and was granted. On January 31, 2010, I took refuge in His Eminence Vajra Guru Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche.

Before taking refuge in Rinpoche, I suffered from very severe menstrual cramps and dreaded the arrival of my period each month. Each time my period came, I was in such pain that I would writhe in bed, vomiting and having diarrhea. The dosage of painkillers I took grew heavier and heavier, yet once their effect wore off, the pain continued as before. However, these symptoms healed without medicine after I took refuge in Rinpoche and persistently attended the pujas. I am grateful to Rinpoche.
 
After I took refuge in Rinpoche, my mother, on February 12, 2011, implored Rinpoche for the opportunity to attend the Chod Puja for the first time, and was granted. After her first attendance of the Chod Puja, it was winter and very cold at that time, she had a cold and cough; in the middle of the night, she woke up to go to the bathroom; before putting on her coat, she lost consciousness, collapsing onto the granite floor; she remained unconscious until morning, and, miraculously, regained consciousness by herself, without life-threatening danger from hypothermia in the cold weather. Upon waking, my mother found a pool of blood on the floor, with one of her front teeth broken in half and lodged in her lip. Nevertheless, surprisingly, my mother was still able to go to the hospital on her own, and her lip was stitched with six sutures. Moreover, her original cold and cough incredibly healed completely without medicine. I am grateful for Rinpoche’s blessings and deeply thankful to Bao Yuan Gao from the Glorious Jewel Chinese Medicine Clinic, because applying it allowed my mother’s lip wound to heal rapidly.
 
In 2014, my grandfather, due to his old age, had repeated bronchial inflammations, which further led to pneumonia, and he frequently went in and out of the hospital. Each time he was hospitalized, the course of antibiotic treatment required two weeks, and a side effect of the antibiotic treatment for my grandfather was diarrhea, so having diarrhea eight or nine times a day was unavoidable. In addition, my grandfather’s body often itched for no apparent reason, and doctors could not find a reason. As a result, he often scratched his skin open with his hands, causing it to bleed and form scabs, which he would scratch open once more, bleeding and scabbing again, and this situation kept happening repeatedly. At that time, seeing that my grandfather at old age was enduring such illness, we, as his relatives, were also powerless. The thought of bringing my grandfather to seek an audience with Rinpoche arose in my mind, and I believed that only Rinpoche could help my grandfather.
 
However, due to insufficient fate, my grandfather ultimately did not have the chance to come to the Buddhist Center to seek an audience with Rinpoche. On January 31, 2015, I signed up to seek an audience with Rinpoche on Saturday, and reported my grandfather’s situation to Rinpoche, imploring Rinpoche to accept my offerings to Rinpoche on behalf of my grandfather, and, representing my grandfather and the elders of the family, to perform the grand prostrations at the Buddhist Center during Rinpoche’s Saturday audience with believers. I am grateful for Rinpoche’s compassionate granting. I am deeply thankful for Rinpoche’s blessings, which enabled my grandfather to pass away peacefully at 12:09 a.m. on March 20, 2015, in the hospital, without undergoing any intubation or resuscitative medical procedures, no longer having to endure the suffering of illness. I am grateful to Rinpoche for transferring my grandfather’s consciousness in the Chod puja. I am grateful to Rinpoche.
 
Our family lives in a rural area of Miaoli near the sea, and since my grandfather’s time, we have run a grocery store. I am grateful to Rinpoche for holding the Great Indiscriminate Amitabha Puja for Transferring Consciousness. I am grateful for the guru’s blessings, through which, after my father attended the Great Puja, the grocery store no longer sold cigarettes, alcohol, or meat.
 
My father had always lived in the countryside since birth, until January 2022, when, due to the prostate enlargement that made him fail to urinate or defecate smoothly, he was urgently taken north to a hospital to seek emergency treatment. At that time, it was examined and found that multiple organs in my father’s body had developed tumors, having spread to the lymph nodes and bones, and it was stage IV cancer. My father eventually decided not to undergo any invasive treatment or resuscitation.
 
My father was in the terminal stage of cancer, and the cancer cells had eroded into his bones, which was excruciating. Because of the pain, my father had to take painkillers and often needed us to apply anti-inflammatory and analgesic ointment for him. My father could not lie flat to sleep, and sleeping on his left side was also severely painful, so he mostly slept on his right side, which, over time, caused a bedsore on his right hip and pelvis area, and he usually slept poorly due to the pain. However, since seeking an audience with Rinpoche, my father has been able to sleep quite well at night, even snoring, without taking painkillers. I am grateful to Rinpoche.
 
Under Rinpoche’s blessings, my father passed away peacefully on the morning of July 3, 2022. At the time of his passing, he was fully conscious, with no ascites or incontinence, departing cleanly, silently, and without suffering. Even my brother and the nurses, who were beside my father, did not realize that he had passed away. If it were not for Rinpoche’s blessings, it would have been utterly impossible for a terminal cancer patient to pass away so peacefully.
 
After my father passed away, his eyes were slightly open and his mouth was unclosed. My mother placed the precious nectar pill, bestowed by Rinpoche, under my father’s tongue. Shortly after, my father’s eyes closed, and his mouth also shut considerably. On Saturday, my family and I came to the Buddhist Center to implore Rinpoche to transfer my father’s consciousness. I am grateful to Rinpoche for compassionately granting the consciousness transferring of my father in the incomparably wondrous Chod Puja, as well as bestowing the dates for his cremation. After my father’s cremation, there were two smooth, round holes on the top of his head. I am grateful to Rinpoche.
 
I am grateful to Rinpoche for transferring my father’s consciousness. After my father’s cremation, there were two smooth, round holes on the top of his head.
 
Here, on behalf of my parents of this lifetime, the parents of accumulated past lifetimes, all ancestors throughout successive generations of accrued past lifetimes, and myself, I repent for all the evil karma created through body, speech, and mind throughout accumulated past lifetimes. I repent in representation of my mother for having committed abortion and for having damaged Buddha statues. I repent that our family has run a grocery store that sold cigarettes, alcohol, and various items that harm sentient beings. I repent for having a career of trading in and killing sentient beings. I repent that when our family lived in the countryside near the sea, for several times, my father placed poison in the upstream of rivers and streams, polluting the water and killing fish, shrimp, and aquatic animals, which we later collected downstream; my father also went to places along the stream to fish using electric shocks and to catch fish. I repent for having eaten countless roasted meats and shrimp, and having eaten the meat of numerous sentient beings that fly in the sky, crawl on the ground, and swim in the water, harming innumerable sentient beings and causing horror in their minds. I repent for helping my mother to kill chickens, ducks, geese, and turtle doves, scalding them with boiling water and then plucking out their feathers and claws. I repent for having committed theft, sexual misconduct, divisive speech, and harsh speech; for having a mind of heavy hatred; for being arrogant and conceited, selfish and self-interested; for disbelieving in karma; for being lippy with my parents and elder siblings; and for disrespecting others. I deeply repent.

I am grateful to Rinpoche for teaching disciples the precious Buddha Dharma that liberates them from birth and death, and frees them from reincarnation. I must diligently obey and follow the guru’s teachings; truly correct my body, speech, and mind, commit no evil acts, and do all virtuous deeds; and make vow to be reborn in the Western Pure Land of Utmost Bliss.

Lastly, I pray for His Eminence Vajra Guru Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche’s good health, longevity, and auspiciousness; the Dharma wheel turns unceasingly; his Dharma activities flourish; the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Monastery of Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is smoothly constructed to perfect completion; Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche’s Dharma lineage spreads eternally, benefiting vast, immeasurable, and boundless sentient beings. I sincerely thank all fellow believers and Dharma brothers for listening patiently. 

 

Respectfully written by disciple Du Meng Zhen, Group One, 

 on October 26, 2025

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