ལྷང་ངེ་ལྷན་ནེ་ལྷམ་མེར་བཞུགས་པའི་འཁོར།།
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་དགེ་སློང་བྱེ་བ་འབུམ།།
ཀུན་ཀྱང་གསེར་མདོག་མཚན་དང་དཔེ་བྱད་བརྒྱན།།
ཆོས་གོས་རྣམ་གསུམ་གསོལ་ཞིང་སེར་ལྟེམ་མེ།།
ཚིག་དོན་རྣམས་སེམས་ལ་ལྷང་ལྷང་དྲན་བྱུང་།
རྟ་ཐོག་ནས་མིག་གིས་ཆོས་སྒར་ལ་གཅེར་བཞིན་མི་རྟ་གཉིས་པོ་ནམ་མཁའ་ནས་ཇེ་མཐོ་ཇེ་མཐོར་སོང་ནས་མཐར་ཅི་ཆ་མེད་པར་གཉིད་སད་འདུག ཞོགས་པ་གཉིད་སད་པའི་སྐབས་སུ་སེམས་ལ་ཧ་ཅང་དགའ་སྤྲོ་ཆེན་པོས་ཁེངས་འདུག ཡར་ལངས་ནས་མཆོད་ཁང་གཙང་མ་བྱས་ཤིང་མཆོད་པ་གསར་པ་གཤམས་ནས་འཆར་ཅན་གྱི་རྒྱུན་ཁྱེར་ཞོགས་འདོན་བྱས།
ད་ནུབ་ཉིང་འཕྲུལ་བདེན་ན།།
བན་རྒན་འཆི་མ་ཐག་ཏུ།།
བདེ་ཆེན་ཞིང་ལས་མ་གཏོགས།།
འགྲོ་ས་མེད་པར་ཤེས་སོང་།
ལྷ་གཅིག་སྣང་བ་མཐའ་ཡས།།
ཆོས་གཅིག་བདེ་ཆེན་ཞིང་སྒྲུབ།།
ཞིང་གཅིག་སུ་ཁ་ཝཱ་ཏི།།
གཏན་དུ་བསྙེན་པས་འཚེངས་སོང་།
Throughout my life, I have practiced the Amitabha Sadhana
and at times experienced unusual dreams and sometimes, interpreted them as
signs of my practice.
About two weeks ago, after concluding my teachings on
Amitabha practices in Portland, Oregon and New York City, I returned home to
California and resumed teachings here. The
following morning, I had an extraordinary dream.
Around 5 am, I dreamt of being in Sertha Lharong in Tibet,
the residence of one of my most revered master, His Holiness Khenpo Jigme Phuntsok. Sertha monastery, a seat of great Buddhist
learning, has over 20,000 resident monks and nuns. However, in my dream, there were countless in
number and seemed as though the whole plain was filled with monks and lamas and
the entire region blanketed with red robes. In the dream, I rode a white horse and we were
entering the monastery as all the monks and lamas watched us. As we proceeded towards the monastery, a monk
came towards us and asked, “These days everyone travels by motorcycle or car
and no one rides a horse anymore. Where
have you come from and where are you going?”
I felt as though the horse carried me there on his back and could not
answer right away, but before I attempted to speak, the horse replied in a
human voice. First it seemed to reply in English, “Amitabha Pureland” and then spoke
in Tibetan, “we are both going to Dewachen Shingkham (Amitabha Pureland).” The horse had wings and it gradually spread
its wings and started to fly. As we
glided in the sky, the view was like one from a descending airplane. It was exceptionally beautiful and became more
vivid of the entire region filled with monks and lamas. Instantly, I remembered two lines from the aspiration
prayers of the Amitabha practice. “Where
there are countless realized beings/Bodhisattvas. Where there is co-existence
of Dharmakaya, Sambhokakaya and Nirmankaya.”
As the horse gained altitude and flew higher and higher, I woke up from the
dream.
Waking up, I felt an extraordinary sense of bliss and peace
that I never experienced before. I got
up, made my offerings and sensed profound joy and happiness. That morning, I felt a conviction that if I pursue
this path and do not commit any unwholesome actions, right from that moment on,
I could achieve to be born in Dewachen.
Dreams are usually illusions and yet some do come true. That morning, it felt like it will come
true.
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