Journey to Enlightenment by Matthieu Ricard

Author:Matthieu Ricard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala

When I arrived for the first time, Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö Rinpoche told me that the night before he had dreamt of meeting the first Khyentse, Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo. “It is a very auspicious sign that you have come today,” he said.

On my first visit to Dzongsar, I only stayed for two months. Gradually I began to go there every summer, returning to Denkhok for the winter or visiting other places to receive teachings from many different teachers.

For me, returning to Dzongsar was always a great event to which I looked forward eagerly. I was always lodged in Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö’s quarters. Most of the time we would take our meals together so that we could talk to each other. When people came to see him, I would go to a room next door and practice there until he was free again, whereupon we would resume our conversation. While many of Dzongsar’s ordinary monks were not conspicuously enthusiastic about study and practice, and approached their duties as a routine, the monastery’s college students studied hard and usually enjoyed easy access to Chökyi Lodrö, who took great pleasure in being with them. But when I was there I heard them groaning that now he would have no time to see them.

When I left, he would accompany me right up to the door of his residence. He was always reluctant to let me leave, and on many occasions I could see tears in his eyes.

Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö was also a finder of concealed treasures, and once he told me: “You must find many treasures with which to benefit others. I had a dream last night. There were clouds in the shapes of the eight auspicious symbols and many other forms, and with them in the sky were many buddhas and bodhisattvas. From those clouds fell an abundant rain of nectar, benefiting beings. You must spread your treasure teachings.” He asked me to give him the empowerments for some of my treasures, and I offered them to him.

I asked him to give me advice about whether or not I should stay in lifelong retreat. “It is not necessary for you to stay in retreat,” he replied. “Little by little I will check on what you should do.”

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Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö asked Khyentse Rinpoche to go to Amdo province and give The Treasury of Rediscovered Teachings. Here is Rinpoche’s wife’s account of that journey:

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