| I first heard Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche teach in the spring of 2000. I recall the talk vividly because it awakened in me something I hadn't experienced with quite the same impact since my first teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, died in 1987. It was a feeling of reconnecting with a wide-open perspective on reality, as if I'd been muddling along in a small, dim room, and suddenly the walls as well as the ceiling and floor disappeared and there was a simple, straightforward freedom. I remember thinking, "Yes! This is how it always is!" EXCERPTED FROM Pema Chödrön's foreward to It's Up to You: The Practice of Self-Reflection on the Buddhist Path by Dzigar Kongtrül, page ix |
