On December 26, 2009, the His Eminence Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche held the auspicious “Dorje Phurpa” puja at the Glorious Jewel Buddhist Center, Kyoto, Japan. There were a total of 109 people who had attended this auspicious puja, including 21 local guests and believers, 1 Japanese disciple, 11 Taiwanese believers and 76 disciples from Taiwan. Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche first enlightened the transmission and pure origination of the Drikung Kagyu Lineage. There are four major schools for Tibetan Buddhism: Gelug、Sakya, Kagyu and Nyima. Dalai Lama is the dharma holder of the Gelug school. Our Lineage is the Drikung Kagyu Lineage of the Tibetan Buddhism. From the first lineage master Lord Jigten Sumgon to the current Lineage head, His Holiness 37th Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, the Lineage has been lasting for more than 830 years. Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is the root disciple of His Holiness Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche and Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche’s dharma name was personally bestowed by His Holiness. For Buddhism, there are ordained and lay practitioners, respectively. Ordained practitioner includes bihikkhu and bhiksuni. Lay practitioner is allowed to marry and have children and family members. There is Exoteric Buddhism in Japan such as the Pure Land school and the Agon Shu school. There is also Esoteric Buddhism such as Eastern Esoteric Buddhism.
Rinchen Dorjee Rinchen is a lay Rinpoche who has attained accomplishment in this life. Any Rinpoche must practice both Esoteric and Exoteric Buddhism. For Tibetan Buddhism, a lay Rinpoche is called “Ngakpa”. In Tibet, a Rinpoche’s virtue power resulting from practicing equals to those for one hundred lamas’ total. The lamas mentioned here are not those ordinary lay people whom you see in Taiwan or Japan. Instead, they are the lay people who had conducted retreat practices for more than three years and three months. A Ngakpa’s virtue power resulting from practicing equals to those for one hundred Rinpoche’s total.
Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continued to enlighten: Today, “Dorje Phurpa” puja will be conducted for you. Dorje Phurpa is the mind emanation of Buddha Amitabha, Bodhisattva Manjushri, Vajrapani, Mahāsthāmaprāpta and Vajra Bhairava. Dorje Phurpa is the Wrathful Deity of Vajrasattva. Most of the Buddha’s statues in the front of the Center are Peaceful Deities and they manifest kind and peaceful look of Buddha’s and Bodhisattva’s. When yidams of the Vajra Family manifest angry look, it does not mean that they are not merciful and compassionate. For those stubborn and bad-quality sentient beings who can’t listen to the compassionate words and have strong heart of hatred and attachment, yidams of the Vajra Family will manifest angry look to liberate them. It is like when the parents discipline their children, at the beginning the parents will advise them nicely. If they do not listen over and over again, then the parents will have severe look and tone! Master Padmasambhava is one of the great practitioners in Tibetan Buddhism who has attained achievement. When taking retreat practice in the cave in Nepal, Master Padmasambhava had often practiced Dorje Phurpa ritual to subdue the evil spirits.
This is a difficult practice as the practitioner must have a yidam in the Vajra family of Tantric Buddhism. In addition, the practitioner has to attain the level of Ati Yoga and the meditative concentration of Spranbrala Yoga. A practitioner who has attained Spranbrla Yoga is not influenced by his surroundings and nothing will frighten him. To practice Vajrayana Buddhism, one definitely needs help from a yidam of the Vajra family and usually has to practice Dorje Phurba. Being a very powerful and fierce yidam, Dorje Phurba has great powers and acts extremely fast. If one solely practices Dorje Phurba in his life, he can obtain abundant wealth, health, and longevity as well as eliminate obstacles in his Buddhist study and karmic obstructions until he attains Buddhahood.
The puja of Dorje Phurba performed by Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is a terma personally bestowed by His Holiness Chetsang Rinpoche during His Holiness’s stay in Taiwan with a Dharma text compiled by the 29th throne holder of Drikung Kagyu Order. A terma is a puja that is not imparted by a human being, but directly by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Dharma protectors, or Vajrayoginis. Therefore, the power of such a puja is particularly great. It is not easy to get such a puja, not to mention to achieve accomplishments with it. When Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche combined with Dorje Phurba while attaining accomplishments with the puja during a retreat, thunders much louder than ordinary ones roared right above the retreat room and the whole retreat room was tossed more fiercely than it would have been during an earthquake. If one feels a bit scared, he will be taken by Dorje Phurba on the spot and die. Why would people feel scared? It is because they have a lot of greedy thoughts and desires. People are afraid of losing or being harmed. Without any fear, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has attained non-differentiation and doesn’t make a distinction between good and bad, for Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche only has compassion and Bodhichitta.
A practitioner who has perfected the puja of Dorje Phurba will be bestowed with auspiciousness, virtues, wealth, health, longevity, inexhaustible influential powers, and perfect Buddhist activities. Nothing will be able to bring harm to him, and he will have a great many disciples, be revered by his family members, and propagate the Buddhist teachings extensively. One section of the puja of Dorje Phurba is contributed to bring longevity for the attendees. Nevertheless, the purpose of making you live a longer life is not to allow you to have more time to enjoy life, to make more money, or to spend more time finding more boyfriends. It gives you more time so that you may learn and study Buddhism. One’s Buddhist study has to be conducted under a guru who acts in accordance with the Buddhist teachings. If one says that he can achieve accomplishments through his practice conducted at home, such a thought is wrong. Throughout the history, not a single practitioner has been able to achieve accomplishments without a guru’s teaching and guidance.
Today’s puja is conducted through a clean and pure mind. The performer’s heart is clean and pure, and so are the ones of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Being pure and clean is a thought-free state. Therefore, it is hoped that you would attend today’s puja with a clean and pure heart and leave behind any self-thoughts or desires. Thereby, this puja will be helpful to you.
Thereafter, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche began to perform the puja for everyone and asked all the attendees to recite their own names as well as the names of people or animals that they would like Dorje Phurba to protect three times.
After a part of the puja was conducted, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche explained that the preliminary practice had just been completed. The preliminary practice is the aspiration and power of vows one has when performing a puja. Additionally, conducting the preliminary practice will purify the puja venue and pacify all the deities, devils, ghosts, and demons so that they wouldn’t interfere with the puja out of jealousy or hatred.
Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continued to perform the main practice of the puja of Dorje Phurba. It is a practice that places great emphasis on rituals. While reciting the mantras in the puja, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche uttered an extremely low sound resembling that of roaring thunders. With vertical eyebrows, bulging eyes, extending mouth and immensely fierce facial expressions, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche’s look was exactly the same as the wrathful look of Dorje Phurba and served as an auspicious sign that indicated Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche’s combination with the yidam. The aforementioned sounds and look couldn’t possibly be created by a person on purpose. The attendees all felt great shock at the fierce power of the arrival of Dorje Phurba. During the puja, nobody walked or made any sound at the venue. Even the babies who had cried constantly didn’t cry at all during the puja. How incredible the influential power was! From this, it could be seen that the blessing power of Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche was so great as to help the sentient beings to eliminate obstacles in their Buddhist study and innumerable sentient beings shall be benefited.
Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche bestowed the enlightenment: One who has not received an empowerment of Dorje Phurba should not read its dharma text. Then Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche led the assembly to recite the mantras. During the puja, every attendee was delivered with a offering object blessed by Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, and was bestowed the rare and auspicious opportunity of eating together with Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the puja.
After completely conducting the ritual, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche told the assembly that the Dorje Phurba puja has been perfectly completed, and this practice was for helping all the attendees to: 1. eliminate the illness of mind, emotion, and brain 2. dispel the unknown disease and cancer caused by ghosts, demons, dragons, and deities 3. avoid possible accidents affected by the yearly, monthly, daily or hourly conflicts. Conflict here means that your personal magnetic field is conflicted with that of the year, month, date or hour and by which brings you an accidental death. Some people say it is to meet a bad luck. 4. be kept off the natural disaster such as flood, fire, and earthquakes resulted from the changes of the celestial bodies 5. be protected from being harmed by poisons or curses. 6. eliminate the accumulated karmic obstacles.
Since Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has imparted Buddha-Dharma starting in 1997, no disciple died in an accident, for Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche constantly holds pujas and conducts dharma rituals for everyone. All disciples have been protected and blessed by the great merits and ability of Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche.
Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche compassionately let all the attendees stepped forward to the Mandala and personally gave blessings to them one by one with a Dorje Phurba Vajra. All people were bestowed the rare and precious nectar and nectar pill.
Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continued on giving enlightenment: Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche just waved the five-colored flags, different from that used by Japanese Shintoism, to give blessings to you. The five-colored flags’ form, colors, and accessories are deeply with particular meanings. The five colors represent all the best materials, elements, and capacities in the Universe. Human’s flesh body is composed of blood, flesh, and water (including endocrine). Once a person makes evildoings, killing or deceiving, his body gets damaged and the endocrine gets disturbed. Then he would get sick. The conducting practitioner would give his own virtues and merits to the attendees so as to replenish their damaged elements. Besides, the form of five-colored flags is like an arrow. In ancient times people think an arrow is very speedy. Therefore the form indicates this dharma can help sentient beings in a very fast speed. Moreover, the sharp point of an arrow is of great ability of piercing, by which the form of the five-colored flags illustrates Dorje Phurba, like an arrow, could pierce through your thick and rigid body full of greed and desire, eliminating your evil karmic obstacles.
Many people know that Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche can help people and has also saved many cancer patients. There are more and more people who get cancer now. A person gets cancer because of eating seafood, eating meat, having serious killing karma, and having strong greed.
Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche used to love eating seafood very much and was very picky about the freshness of the seafood; Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche would not eat a fish which was already dead and would only eat a fish which was just killed before preparing the dish. This preference also applied to shrimps, crabs, and even abalones. Because of loving to eat seafood, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche had gotten serious skin cancer at the age of 45. At the time, a disciple, who is a doctor, advised Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche to seek medical treatment; but Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche knew that this was caused by the law of cause and effect; so Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche did not go to see any doctor, did not do electrotherapy or chemotherapy, and just relied on practicing Buddha dharma. Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is 62 years old this year and the skin cancer has been cured completely without taking any medicine. Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche once saw a TV program in the Discovery channel which reported that the chemotherapy and electrotherapy of the modern medicine, in addition to killing cancer cells in the body, also kill the good cells in the body.
It has stated in Buddhist scriptures that dragons live in the trees, in the water, under the earth, and in the stones. So those who like to eat seafood would hurt the dragons. A person would get sick even when being glared at by a dragon’s eyes, let alone the consequences one would get when hurting the dragons. That is why Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche urges people not to arbitrarily cut down big trees, not to harm water animals or contaminate water sources, not to dig deeply into the earth, and not to move large stones. Japanese attendees may feel that Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche is speaking about myths; however, in fact, Buddha always taught us not to lie and what Buddha has said is all true; Buddha would never lie to us and we should believe his words. Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche has personally witnessed these things, so Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche knows that this is true and will never lie to you.
You often heard bad things, but thought these things were good to you; or you heard good things, but thought these things were bad to you. Those who cannot listen to Buddha dharma are in such condition because they have serious killing karma in this and past generations of lives. If you bear grudges because you felt others had disappointed you, you body will therefore be damaged; if you get angry because you felt others had harmed you, your health will become poor; once your health becomes poor, you have to spend money on seeing a doctor; so it is not worth to be angry! Those who have gotten cancers should believe in the law of cause and effect, make all efforts possible to do virtuous deeds, and not worry about why this decease happened; those people should think what things they have done wrong in the past. Instead of spending money on medical treatment, it is better for them to donate money to people who really have no money to see a doctor; doing such might be helpful for healing their illnesses.
Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche once dined in a high-class restaurant in France. When the chef of the restaurant knew that Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche was a vegetarian, the chef was very happy since the highest level of cuisine in France is vegetarian dishes. Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche had also taken the Japanese interpreter of today’s puja to a famous French restaurant in Tokyo to eat vegetarian dishes. During the puja, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche asked the interpreter on the spot how the vegetarian dishes were. She immediately answered that the dishes were very delicious. Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche continued to ask her whether she had started to have a vegetarian diet. She answered that she was a vegetarian 85 percent of the time. Then Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche enlightened her that she was helping to do oral interpretation in Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche’s puja, if she still refused to become a vegetarian, she should not come and do this again in the future.
Having a vegetarian diet is helpful to one’s health and can reduce one’s desires. It is because of your greed and desire that you feel sufferings in life.
The water and nectar pills you took, which had been consecrated by Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche, are in fact to replenish your bone, flesh, internal secretion, and the energies consumed through daily activities, because the human body consists of blood, flesh and liquids. Although what you felt is taking juice and sweet food. In the last month of this year, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche performed the awe-inspiring and fierce Dharma for everyone, as long as you accept the Rinpoche’s advices you would be benefited from the ritual that consumed a lot of energies of Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche.
The Rinpoche hope you could lessen the hatred against other people, could avoid bearing grudges. Don’t always consider other people are against you or they do not treat you fairly, as it would harm your physical body and would harm your internal secretion. If you continue on deceit, making bad things, eating and kill living beings, some serious problems would happen to you in the next year.
The next year, a fire year, will still be unprosperous in the extreme. The situation will be unusual, either very good or very bad. There would be more fire, earth quake, and volcanic outbreaks. It would be tense in interpersonal relations, because people would be more irritable. The weather condition will be dry and result in a shortage of water. Nowadays, water resources are becoming rare, so everybody ought to cherish water resources. Japanese like alcohol, which requires pretty much water to produce. Therefore, it would be better to not take alcohol. However, you have not yet converted to Buddhism, not yet a disciple, Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche could not stop your doing it and could only advise you. In next year, floods would follow from much fire; it would be no somewhat devastating war. Hope everybody stop cheating any others. No more wrong doings; practice charity more. Take vegetarian diet; no more alcohol. Thus, one should be safe and survive in the year of difficulties.
Wish you next year apart from improper courtship, apart from inappropriate things. If you do not take any meat, you will be benefited from this puja by Rinchen Dorjee Rinpoche. Wish you all an auspicious and peaceful year.
Updated on January 6, 2010