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Kyabje Chadral Rinpoche also reminds Dharma practitioners to be careful about alcoholism. There was an interesting incident. The photograph of a late rinpoche was put inside the room of Kyabje Chadral Rinpoche, probably by the disciples of that late rinpoche asking for Rinpoche's blessings. When Rinpoche saw that photo later in the day, he immediately said : "This person was an alcoholic and had broken his precepts, don't leave his photo in my room, take it away!" When the attendant took away the photo from the wooden frame, there was another photo underneath it. So Rinpoche asked who is the other person, and the answer was : "That is the son of that late rinpoche, and he is also an alcoholic." Then Rinpoche remarked : "Like father like son, take away both of their photos!" Another great enlightened
activity of Kyabje Chadral Rinpoche is to conduct the annual "fasting
ceremony" (nyung-ne) of puja, on the Lord Buddha's Enlightenment
Festival for sixteen days. This is a practice that one can do while
living a family life,
Kyabje Chadral Rinpoche has always put his energy and resources into those things that are most conducive towards the genuine practice of the Dharma, in training his disciples as well as in benefiting all sentient beings. Here we would like to report on some of those major constructions as follows :- When Kyabje Chadral Rinpoche was around sixty years of age, Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche II urged him to go to the sacred land of Yangleshod, the place of accomplishment (chandho) where Guru Rinpoche took the form of Vajrakumara and attained the Vidyadhara stage of the Great Seal (Mahamudra) realization, to build a retreat center there (as predicted) so that it will be beneficial to both the Dharma and the sentient beings. Hence, both Rinpoches went to Yangleshod and watched the site over there, deciding on the plans for constructions. Hence, in this supreme sacred place of Yangleshod, Kyabje Chadral Rinpoche had founded a retreat center called the "Joyous Grove of the Accomplishment of the Glorious Awareness-Holder"(Pal Rigdzin Drubpe Ghatsal), in fulfilling the prophecies made about his great deeds by the past Saints. Further, in Godavari of Nepal, one of the twenty-four great places of sacred ground, he founded the retreat center named the "Place of the Supreme Accomplishment of Meditation on the Highest Luminosity" (Lame Osel Ting-dzin Chok-drup Ling) and a Burmese style of a Buddhist stupa called the "Great Stupa Which Upon Seeing Liberates" (Chorten Tongdrol Chenmo). In Yol-mo, a place which was foretold in The Flower Ornament Discourse and The Seven Profound Chronicles, Rinpoche founded the retreat center of the "Spiritual Center of Ever-Excellency" (Kunzang Choling). In Sikkim, Rinpoche founded the "Guarding Courage Kathok Monastery" -- CONTINUE -- |
when
one is so busy with no time to do extensive practice or retreat, so
that this practice can combine various skillful means to quickly complete
the works of accumulating merits and purifying obscurations. For the
first day, participants can have liquid for the whole day, but only
a lunch (without onions, garlic, chilly) and they can talk for the day.
Then for the second day, no food, no liquid and no talking is allowed
for the whole day, except prayers and prostrations.Then until the next
morning of the third day, and before beginning with a new vow, the participants
are given a semi-solid food (such as rice congee) to break the silence,
after which they can talk again for that day. In this way, it will last
for 16 days. Hence, it is not possible for people who do not have strong
will-powers to participate in this fasting ceremony. In
purifying obscurations of many past lifetimes, in eliminating the toxic
substances in the human body, in training one's persistent will-power,
in elevating one's spiritual clairty of mind, in transcending the painful
experience of hunger, as well as in confessing one's breaking of precepts
and samayas, this is an experiential practice which is most powerful.
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