You Are Always in My Heart

 You Are Always in My Heart

Date of Advice:
May 2011
Date Posted:
April 2014

Rinpoche requested that this letter from a student is kept so others can rejoice.

Dearest Rinpoche,
I pray you are doing well. I just wanted to say thank you for the lessons that you continue to teach us. Watching the video of you laughing in the hospital and seeing the picture of Ven. Holly helping you and holding your arm and hand up in the mudra of prostration warmed my heart and made me realize just how many obstacles my “self-cherishing I” creates in my life—“I don’t feel like practicing, I am too tired; I had a hard day at work; I want to get some extra sleep.” Nothing but excuses!

It also made me think of something you said at Milarepa Center. I will not be able to correctly quote you, but I remember it as, “When we don’t study Dharma, it is as if Buddha is calling us on the phone and we tell him we are too busy to take his call.”

Thank you for being here, for teaching us so many lessons with your actions, for caring so much for all of us. I hope I am fortunate to see you again in this lifetime. Regardless of whether you are close or far, you are always in my heart.

Much love, my precious guru...