A RINPOCHE IS GIVEN A SIGN
After the Dharma King practiced Dharma to bathe the celestial beings and the Dharma protecting deities, he instructed everyone to look inside the water to see whether the Vajra Wheel was moving. People were amazed to see that even though those two people with holy virtue and high states of realization lifted the lotus tub and thereby poured Dharma water from a tub weighing more then 4,000 pounds downward into the tub used to bathe the celestial beings, the Vajra Wheel surprisingly did not move in the slightest. The Vajra Wheel remained in its original position. Many people saw eight Dharma protecting Bodhisattvas standing on that Dharma object blowing air upward.
At this time, a Rinpoche who weighs 280 pounds beseeched the Vajra Wheel to manifest its powers and eliminate his remaining karmic hindrances. The Great Dharma King agreed to this request and put the Vajra Wheel on that Rinpoche’s chest. At first, that Rinpoche felt that the temperature of the Vajra Wheel was cool. The Great Dharma King then began intoning a mantra. With his fingers pointing to the sky, the Great Dharma King lightly snapped his fingers. That Rinpoche suddenly let out a miserable scream. He was in such pain his face turned pale. Like the power the Incantation of the Golden Hoop had over the Monkey King in Journey to the West, the Great Dharma King’s mantra caused the solemn face of the Rinpoche to become distorted from pain he could not endure. It seemed that Rinpoche could not endure the pain. As a result of the Great Dharma King practicing a certain Dharma, the Vajra Wheel emitted the true fire of samadhi. Its temperature quickly rose to an extremely high degree. Of course, that Rinpoche could not endure such heat.
The Great Dharma King then snapped his fingers again, and the true fire of samadhi instantly disappeared. The Vajra Wheel suddenly became cold. That Rinpoche immediately returned to his normal condition. He was not injured in the least. However, there remained an imprint of the Vajra Wheel on his chest. The Great Dharma King predicted that after one week a three-dimensional Dharma object in relief would grow out of the imprint on that Rinpoche’s chest. That Rinpoche was full of Dharma joy and thanked the Great Dharma King for eliminating his karmic hindrances. That Rinpoche then vowed to do his utmost to benefit living beings.
