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allowed no one to disturb me.
During the Sino-Japanese War, the Central Government,
which was in great danger, eventually called upon
masters of yoga to help repel the invaders by invoking
the power of whatever fierce deities they might be
propitiating.
Mr. Chen smiled gently at this and said:
I was also asked to help but replied that I must first go
and consult my Guru, Papung Khyentse Rinpoche. On
the way to see my teacher we met the professor, who
also chanced to be traveling that way. He was very
pleased, and said, "Now I have an opportunity to ask
you some questions, and you can resolve my doubts."
He told me that he had been to many teachers in China
(including Venerable Tai Xu and Venerable Xu Yun)
with questions on rebirth but they had not been able to
convince him by their answers.
I told him that even in the present we are transmigrating,
we go from birth to birth, even while we are awake, and
this continues when we sleep. When after a lifetime of
awakening and sleeping we come to death, how then
should it be different? As there are dreams in the night
following the experiences of the day, so at our death,
because of the store of deeds committed, our karma
leads us on from life to life.
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