The story behind the toys | 玩具背后的故事
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His Eminence Tsem Rinpoche had a bad childhood, a really bad one. Born out of wedlock, his parents abandoned him, his grandmother paid USD$50 a month to a foster family to take care of him, the foster family abused him, beat him, punished him to kneel on rice grains for hours, starved him until he had to steal bread from shops to feed himself, and when the foster family did not starve him, they fed him white rice mixed with sugar until his teeth were rotten, and when Rinpoche’s grandmother bought him a wooden-horse toy, the foster family immediately snatched away the toy to give to their own children when the grandmother left, and when he finally left for another adopted family, he had such a bad smell on his body that would not go away for months, because the previous foster family never cleaned him…all these sound like Psychology 101 for “The Reasons Behind Vengeful/Bitter/Cold-hearted/Abusive Adults” or worse “Theories Behind Murderers/Psychopath”. Yet, many years later, this physically and mentally abused boy still grew up to be – Tsem Rinpoche, who showed no traces of his troubled childhood, who advises parents how to truly love their children, teaches children how to respect their parents, and who always buy abundant gifts and toys for many children unrelated to him, like my nephew and niece in the picture. And that’s one of the many reasons why we put Tsem Rinpoche on the throne, respect him and make offerings to him, not because he was a recognized golden child who was put on the throne as a toddler (he was not), but that he showed everyone that a higher level mind which encompasses true love and compassion is possible to be achieved, and that reincarnation truly exists. ~ Pastor Seng Piow
詹杜固仁波切的童年非常的不愉快。他是个私生子，一出世就被亲生父母遗弃。他的外婆每个月付50美金把他寄养在一户人家中。他的养母经常虐待他，殴打他， 罚他跪在米粒上几个小时任由他哭到深夜。养母经常让他挨饿，使到年幼弱小的他被迫去小吃店偷包点充饥。要不然，就是只给他吃白米饭掺白糖，吃到他的乳牙都 蛀坏了。他的外婆偶尔探望他，给他买个玩具木马，外婆离开后，养母马上把木马抢过来给自己的孩子们玩。当他最终离开这户家人时，他身上散发一股臭味，花了 几个月才能除去，因为他之前的养母从来没清洗他。。。这一切，看似心理学教科书里的个案——《愤怒、冷漠、仇恨、虐待狂心理的来源》或更严重的《杀人魔/ 变态狂背后的原因》，可是，这一切不但没有发生，这一个受尽身心虐待的男孩长大后，还是成了——詹杜固仁波切。他今天的言行举止非但没有小时候被虐待的丝 毫痕迹，而且他还经常开导做父母的如何去爱孩子，教导孩子们如何敬爱父母，还经常买很多礼物玩具给跟他没有任何血缘关系的他人的孩子，包括这张照片里我的 侄儿侄女。就是因为这样，我们今天把詹杜固仁波切请上法座、对他毕恭毕敬、供养他，不是因为他是从小就被放在法座上接受众人膜拜的转世灵童，而是他实实在 在证明给我们看，我们的心识，是真的能够被磨炼到另一个更高境界的，而且心灵的转世，是真实存在的。~ 罗胜彪讲法师
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Rinpoche,
thank you
Though Tsem Tulku Rinpoche had a really bad childhood, But his earliest childhood’s powerful imprints was that of a Tulku, a reincarnated Lama, manifested in his natural devotion towards Buddhist masters, Dieties and prayers, and his all-consuming longing to practise Dharma! At 7years old, Rinpoche said that when he saw thangkhas, Buddha statues and altars at the temples, he felt something awaken inside him, and he felt that finally, he had come home. This was how he already felt when as a growing-up child in USA when he was praying and prostrating towards sacred, old Thangkhas of the protector, Palden Lhamo and others. Rinpoche’s spiritual practice when as a child was more than imagination. As a child, it was also said that he used to see a red lady in his imaginations and would think, “This practice can take us beyond this world quickly”. This matches the vibrant image of the female tantric buddha, Vajrayogini, who is also depicted as bright red and whose practices are very, very powerful. Our Rinpoche, as a special extra-ordinary child came from ” a glorious line of illustrious blessed incarnations! Even H.H.The 14th Dalai Lama acknowledged Tsem Tulku Rinpoche’s incarnation as that of a ‘Tulku’. Rinpoche today instead turns out to be a forgiving and compassionate Bodhisattva, who gives out true compassion and loving kindness to all sentient beings, including animals too! What a loving Buddha he is! Om mani padme Hung.
I really enjoy reading your posts about Rinpoche, Pastor Seng Piow. In this post, I particularly like this bit that you wrote -“….he showed everyone that a higher level mind which encompasses true love and compassion is possible to be achieved, and that reincarnation truly exists.” This gives me hope and drive to strive towards a higher level mind. Thank you with folded hands, Pastor Seng Piow.
Rinpoche,despite having to endure so much hardship and suffering during his childhood He never habour any bad feeling like anger and hatred towards the people who abused Him before. As we all know Rinpoche always love kids, He likes to shower them with gifts and toys even they are not related to Him. Rinpoche is truly compassionate, giving and forgiving ,this is really a good example for us to follow. Thank you Pastor Seng Piow for sharing this article.
There are many people in the world who can relate to the experiences Rinpoche had when he was a child. Rinpoche has shown that we do not need to react with anger, hatred, revenge and so on. Instead Rinpoche showed us love and compassion. This is how we can overcome our anger and hatred.
Thank you Pastor Seng Piow for sharing this article with all of us here.
I believe many of Rinpoche’s students can relate to the kind of love that Rinpoche showers all of us with. Rinpoche would always make sure that we are doing fine, both spiritually and materially.
Since young, I have been receiving many gifts from Rinpoche to make sure that I am well. One incident that I remember very clearly that just happened a few years back was that Rinpoche asked if I had money with me like a loving father, making sure that I am well and that I would have money to spend. Rinpoche did that not because of anything, it was the pure care and concern that Rinpoche has for his students. Rinpoche wanted to make sure that I was well taken care of while I did some voluntary work in Kechara during my holidays. During then, before I had the chance to decline Rinpoche’s kindness for the money, Rinpoche had already taken out the money from Rinpoche’s wallet all ready to pass to me. Although, this was a very small gesture, but it had already shown the kind of love and care Rinpoche had for his students, making sure that they are well taken care of all the time.
We may think that we have a lot to offer to Rinpoche, but in fact, we have nothing to offer to Rinpoche. We had only offered up our problems and negative karma that Rinpoche would help us with because Rinpoche loves and cares for us. Rinpoche would constantly show us that he loves us no matter if we are near or far from him. Rinpoche would just endlessly give us both spiritual and material things so that we would be “happy” in order to continue learning the Dharma to just help ourselves.
Dear Pastor SP, thank you for this wonderful article.
Rinpoche really cares for everybody around him, and he makes sure even our families are well taken care of.
As mentioned in the article, even though Rinpoche had a bad childhood, it never stopped him from being compassionate, it never stopped him from giving great advices to children and parents.
For that, it already commands great respect from me, from all of us.
Thank you for allowing me to be part of your life, Rinpoche.
Thanks Pastor Seng Piow for sharing this article. Rinpoche is truly an incarnation of higher Being. H.E uses his experiences to shown us how to love even we have been hurt by others.
Don’t let the nite mare make us a monster, but, become better.
I thanks Rinpoche for this teaching always. Because when i come across people who are haunted by past experiences, I can always refer to Rinpoche’s life experiences and encourage the person to walk out from the nite mare.
Thank you Rinpoche
With folded hand,
Freon
Even though Tsem Rinpoche went through a trouble years while growing in Taiwan and in America, these ordeals never change Rinpoche true nature of an enlighten master who has tremendous compassion and care for every person Rinpoche meets. Though environment and situation can change a person emotionally and physically, but Rinpoche kindness was not affected, this is what we trully must learn from.
Thank You Pastor Seng Piow for sharing.