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| H.H. 17th Karmapa 1994 Photo: Thule G. Jug |
Shamarpa: "In order to obtain further details I sent yet another person to Tibet. He came back with virtually the same information. During this time I continued my investigations concerning this child.
I sent a third person to Lhasa to seek out the family. The father, a well-known Lama, was frequently asked to assist people with advice in various matters, as he is regarded as a spiritual master. Many Lamas live in the same area of Lhasa in which the family lived. All of them keep their homes open to people. Anyone can just drop in to ask for advice or a blessing. It's not like here where you have to make an appointment. I instructed the person I sent to Lhasa to contact the family casually on the pretext that he was seeking advice. He was to visit the family frequently on this pretext with a view to observing the young child.
When he arrived in the Bakhor district, he circumambulated the temples there. Then he went to the house of the family where, he told me, he met a young child with a very fair complexion, who immediately said: "You've come to look for me." The person in question didn't reply but asked to see the father. The young child led him into the house where he asked for guidance in some business matter.
This person stayed in Lhasa only for a short time. He then returned with information very similar to that which I had previously received. That the young child told this person he knew he had come to look for him indicates that he isn't an ordinary child.
Only reincarnates of high spiritual capacity have this kind of ability: a heightened perception on the basis of which they are able to know about, for example, a person's purpose. The fact that the young child exhibited this quality is an event frequently encountered in the historical records of previous reincarnations. It's an exceptional quality that someone of high spiritual capacity possesses."
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Only reincarnates of high spiritual capacity have this kind of ability: a heightened perception on the basis of which they are able to know about, for example, a person's purpose. The fact that the young child exhibited this quality is an event frequently encountered in the historical records of previous reincarnations. It's an exceptional quality that someone of high spiritual capacity possesses."
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