Comments on: A Teaching on Nyingma Protector Shenpa https://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/dharma-readings/a-teaching-given-by-his-eminence-shenpen-dawa-rinpoche-on-nyingma-protector-shenpa/ The Protector whose time has come Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: DSFriend https://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/dharma-readings/a-teaching-given-by-his-eminence-shenpen-dawa-rinpoche-on-nyingma-protector-shenpa/comment-page-1/#comment-16201 DSFriend Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:41:32 +0000 http://dorjeshugden.com/wp/?p=5592#comment-16201 The stories and teachings in this article totally blows my mind away. I love reading stories of the workings of the wisdom beings. Some people say we should not put faith in miracles...but miracles happen and are workings of extraordinary beings. It is called a miracle not because it's not normal...it's not normal to us just because we don't understand them and because we can't perform these deeds ourselves. Just like what Shenpen Rinpoche said, "First, just because you don’t visually see or understand something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Remember this one. Second, what you don’t see is your limitation, not an expansion of your awareness." Reading this article makes me gain more faith in my very kind and compassionate protector, Dorje Shugden whom I believe to have saved my life and brought me to the path of the Dharma, not only that, but have done much to help me stay on the path. The stories and teachings in this article totally blows my mind away. I love reading stories of the workings of the wisdom beings. Some people say we should not put faith in miracles…but miracles happen and are workings of extraordinary beings. It is called a miracle not because it’s not normal…it’s not normal to us just because we don’t understand them and because we can’t perform these deeds ourselves.

Just like what Shenpen Rinpoche said, “First, just because you don’t visually see or understand something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Remember this one. Second, what you don’t see is your limitation, not an expansion of your awareness.”

Reading this article makes me gain more faith in my very kind and compassionate protector, Dorje Shugden whom I believe to have saved my life and brought me to the path of the Dharma, not only that, but have done much to help me stay on the path.

]]> By: vajrastorm https://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/dharma-readings/a-teaching-given-by-his-eminence-shenpen-dawa-rinpoche-on-nyingma-protector-shenpa/comment-page-1/#comment-15598 vajrastorm Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:32:38 +0000 http://dorjeshugden.com/wp/?p=5592#comment-15598 “The activity of the dharmapalas is incredible. Dharmapalas are wisdom beings that can help you attain realization”. “The dharmapalas are the main working force of all the Buddhas, because they communicate the process of your mind. If there is an enemy, what is the enemy? How should we view the enemy? If there is something harming us, how do we defeat it?” I would like to recount a story told by HE Shenpen Dewa Rinpoche about the Nyingma Protector, Shenpa,(main Protector of the Nyingma lineage, particularly the Dudjom Tersar lineage) and his enlightened activity ,which to ordinary minds may appear very gross and revolting. In essence, it demonstrates the incredible activities of an enlightened wisdom Protector so as to secure a realization for you. This story concerns HH Dudjom Rinpoche(Shenpa Dewa Rinpoche’s father). This Holy Being learned from this “bad experience” never to become angry with any particular person again(although, my own perception is that His Holiness is already an enlightened being and this “experience” was meant to help transform the minds of those other people around Him and the other party in this story, and for them to gain realizations). In this story, Dudjom Rinpoche had borrowed a big sum of money, from three brothers, to fund the construction of a monastery and could not repay the whole sum. With high interests, the total amount owed became much bigger. One day, whilst Dudjom Rinpoche was giving a teaching, one of the brothers rudely presented himself, disrupted the teaching, and demanded repayment of the loan, and even had the audacity to drag Dudjom Rinpoche out and kicked him, when he said he could not repay the loan. Although Dudjom Rinpoche stopped his disciples from hurting or killing this brother, and defended him outwardly by saying that he was “right” to threaten him, yet inwardly, he was thinking , “Why did that man treat me so badly?”. Early, one morning, while Rinpoche was doing his practice, the freshly cut head of the brother, who had kicked and threatened him, was brought and placed on the table in front of him. It was the Protector who had done it, as he could not bear to see Rinpoche so humiliated. The other two brothers were also killed in bizarre situations. Rinpoche then called the rest of the family to go to the temple and do prostrations and ask for forgiveness. Only thus was the ‘chain reaction’ from interdependent arising cut. The ‘cutting’ here signified that all the people involved in the ‘cutting’ were liberated, through the working of the wisdom mind of the Dharmapala. The real ‘enemy’ in this story that had to be defeated and put down is the inner, more dangerous ‘enemy’ of Anger. So that Anger had to be put down and cut off. Thus does this Wisdom Protector help beings in gaining Dharma realizations. “The activity of the dharmapalas is incredible. Dharmapalas are wisdom beings that can help you attain realization”.
“The dharmapalas are the main working force of all the Buddhas, because they communicate the process of your mind. If there is an enemy, what is the enemy? How should we view the enemy? If there is something harming us, how do we defeat it?”
I would like to recount a story told by HE Shenpen Dewa Rinpoche about the Nyingma Protector, Shenpa,(main Protector of the Nyingma lineage, particularly the Dudjom Tersar lineage) and his enlightened activity ,which to ordinary minds may appear very gross and revolting. In essence, it demonstrates the incredible activities of an enlightened wisdom Protector so as to secure a realization for you.
This story concerns HH Dudjom Rinpoche(Shenpa Dewa Rinpoche’s father). This Holy Being learned from this “bad experience” never to become angry with any particular person again(although, my own perception is that His Holiness is already an enlightened being and this “experience” was meant to help transform the minds of those other people around Him and the other party in this story, and for them to gain realizations).
In this story, Dudjom Rinpoche had borrowed a big sum of money, from three brothers, to fund the construction of a monastery and could not repay the whole sum. With high interests, the total amount owed became much bigger.
One day, whilst Dudjom Rinpoche was giving a teaching, one of the brothers rudely presented himself, disrupted the teaching, and demanded repayment of the loan, and even had the audacity to drag Dudjom Rinpoche out and kicked him, when he said he could not repay the loan.
Although Dudjom Rinpoche stopped his disciples from hurting or killing this brother, and defended him outwardly by saying that he was “right” to threaten him, yet inwardly, he was thinking , “Why did that man treat me so badly?”.
Early, one morning, while Rinpoche was doing his practice, the freshly cut head of the brother, who had kicked and threatened him, was brought and placed on the table in front of him. It was the Protector who had done it, as he could not bear to see Rinpoche so humiliated. The other two brothers were also killed in bizarre situations. Rinpoche then called the rest of the family to go to the temple and do prostrations and ask for forgiveness. Only thus was the ‘chain reaction’ from interdependent arising cut.
The ‘cutting’ here signified that all the people involved in the ‘cutting’ were liberated, through the working of the wisdom mind of the Dharmapala. The real ‘enemy’ in this story that had to be defeated and put down is the inner, more dangerous ‘enemy’ of Anger. So that Anger had to be put down and cut off.
Thus does this Wisdom Protector help beings in gaining Dharma realizations.

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