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MESSAGE FROM CHHOJE RINPOCHE TO OUR SANGHA

It is with great sadness that I inform you that our beloved, kindest, His Eminence Soktse Rinpoche has passed away into Paranirvana. Rinpoche remained in Samadhi for one week. It was personally for me, a mixed experience: sadness and celebration. Sadness when such a great enlightened being passes away, it’s a great loss for disciples and for the Dharma. And it’s a celebration –knowing that we all have inherent Buddha nature and when this nature is realized thru our practice of the pith instructions received from our teacher, then at the time of death, one shows the amazing sign of remaining in the inherent clear light, the inner luminosity, in the state known as tukdam ( or Samadhi ). Thus we can know with certainty that it is possible for every being to achieve this state of absolute freedom, the nondual wisdom mind, the clear light.

In this case, Rinpoche remained in tukdam for one week from the 24 th October to the 30 th October. During this whole time, every day, sitting next to his body and meditating was a tremendous blessing and awakening. An amazing display of tukdam : the body remained with no odour whatsoever during the whole Samadhi period regardless of the temperature in the room. And his skin color remained vital and alive whereas an ordinary body would begin to decay within less than 24 hours. In Rinpoche’s case, after a whole week, there was no odour whatsoever. His skin and skin color remained vital and alive throughout the week, his face unchanged as Rinpoche remained seated in meditation. Only after a week when Rinpoche had completed his Samadhi, his face color changed. So, these are some of the signs. There are many other signs when the Lama remains in tukdam which is the primordial wisdom state, his enlightened mind performing activities beyond what the ordinary mind can comprehend.

The historical Buddha Shakyamuni and all the great Mahasiddhas from India and Tibet and other places in the world, all displayed impermanence in order to cut thru our mistaken conceptual belief in permanence . So, even enlightened beings, emperors, kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers and world leaders, everyone who is born must die. No one can remain forever. Therefore enlightened beings’ display of impermanence is a profound message for disciples not to waste their precious human rebirths engaging in afflictions and negative activities. When he was in hospital , Soktse Rinpoche gazed with loving kindness as he watched all the people wandering around, and smiling, he said “so much precious time is wasted”. That was his message upon seeing the people simply wandering around his hospital bed. Rinpoche was more concerned for staff and the workers surrounding him than for himself. Therefore, we must use our precious time engaging in the Bodhisattva path and practice the profound Dharma so that we too can achieve enlightenment in this lifetime.

With love and blessings,

Chhoje Rinpoche

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