http://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/features/caught-between-a-rock-and-hard-place/ The Protector whose time has come Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/features/caught-between-a-rock-and-hard-place/comment-page-1/#comment-47105 SabrinaL Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:09:18 +0000 http://www.dorjeshugden.com/?p=27613#comment-47105 I hav read some articles posted here and some of the comments. I m relatively new here but would like to put in my humble comment. Basically, I dont think the main problem is wt Dalai Lama's ban on DS practise, which probably is a lesson in itself. Nor do I think that the DS practise is the focus of the problem. I think that its the Buddhist practitioners themselves that is the problem. As I understand, Buddhism is compassion n wisdom gained to benefit others. Does it matter what others practise? After all we are suppose to be at peace with other religions, ie. Christians, Muslims, Hindus, etc... Why cant we be at peace within one religion....Buddhism. We should look within ourselves before we bring all those ugliness to others. With much respect to HH Dalai Lama, the most basic that I have learnt is prostration....Namo guru beh, Namo Buddhaya, Namo Dharma-ya, Namo Sangha-ya. Therefore in my view, the Guru takes supreme place...whatever we learn, understand, practise and attain, comes from our Guru. We are suppose to check out our Guru before we take our refuge vows from him, so we are the one to take responsibility for our own choice of Guru (so to speak). In whatever situations arising, we should always respect our Gurus and the practises confered to us. HH Dalai Lama probably just threw in this ban as a time for our self reflection on our practises....to always keep focal "wisdom and compassion towards benefitting others and not the self". How could persecution of DS practioners be of any benefit or for creating permanent happiness? As I understand, every actions that we do counts and reflects back to us. I hav read some articles posted here and some of the comments. I m relatively new here but would like to put in my humble comment.
Basically, I dont think the main problem is wt Dalai Lama’s ban on DS practise, which probably is a lesson in itself. Nor do I think that the DS practise is the focus of the problem. I think that its the Buddhist practitioners themselves that is the problem. As I understand, Buddhism is compassion n wisdom gained to benefit others. Does it matter what others practise? After all we are suppose to be at peace with other religions, ie. Christians, Muslims, Hindus, etc… Why cant we be at peace within one religion….Buddhism. We should look within ourselves before we bring all those ugliness to others.
With much respect to HH Dalai Lama, the most basic that I have learnt is prostration….Namo guru beh, Namo Buddhaya, Namo Dharma-ya, Namo Sangha-ya. Therefore in my view, the Guru takes supreme place…whatever we learn, understand, practise and attain, comes from our Guru. We are suppose to check out our Guru before we take our refuge vows from him, so we are the one to take responsibility for our own choice of Guru (so to speak). In whatever situations arising, we should always respect our Gurus and the practises confered to us.
HH Dalai Lama probably just threw in this ban as a time for our self reflection on our practises….to always keep focal “wisdom and compassion towards benefitting others and not the self”. How could persecution of DS practioners be of any benefit or for creating permanent happiness? As I understand, every actions that we do counts and reflects back to us.

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