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Allow Dorje Shugden to guide and protect your Dharma practice
The way Dorje Shugden leads us to a practical experience of emptiness is through this instruction
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Gen-la Dekyong
Dorje Shugden, our Dharma protector, will arrange conditions most conducive for our Dharma practice, but these will not necessarily be the conditions we ourselves would have chosen. He will bless our minds to help us transform difficult situations into the spiritual path.
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Transform difficulties into spiritual fuel
This teaching presents the Kadampa view that suffering has good qualities and is inevitable in impure life. Through Dorje Shugden's blessings, practitioners learn to courageously accept suffering and transform difficulties into spiritual fuel, developing renunciation, compassion, and wisdom rather than rejecting life's challenges.
The Practice of Relying Upon Dorje Shugden
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