Thank you so much for making this form of these teachings available. I've been listening to these tapes as well are reading the book Transcending Madness. The two together of tapes and book are very helpful. As a student of the Vidyadhara from the seventies I just cannot get enough of my master's voice.

I also attended the program this weekend with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. He certainly helped deepen my understanding of this. Inspired as he said by the approach and profundity of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's teachings, Dzongsar Rinpoche was also adroit at presenting a multi-layered and multi-faceted teachings that benefited both young and old, both new and seasoned practitioners. Here is how to understand as well as how to practice. Here is how to apply this to our daily lives as well as to the greater transitions of life and death and beyond. Far out! But "don't freak out," as Trungpa Rinpoche taught in the 1970's as how to experience awakened wisdom.

When this program of Dzongsar Rinpoche is available at his web site, could you please post a precise link? And please turn up the volume on the voice of Trungpa Rinpoche. The introduction has good volume, but when the master starts to speak the volume is so low that it is difficult to hear. Even when I do all I can at this end to turn it up.

Supplicating my Guru,
David Wimberly

I hitch-hiked up to Rinpoche's house in Four Mile Canyon in early July1971 to catch a ride up to the first summer seminar in Allen's Parkalong the Continental Divide. I got a ride in the back of a truckdelivering supplies with, among others, a tall colorful talkativefellow named Alan Marlowe who said he had just returned from Thailandwhere he had been practicing in a monastery as a Buddhist monk.

I have many vivid memories of those 10 days which were extremelyformative in my 21-year-old life and emerging Buddhist path.Rinpoche's teachings were utterly unfathomable and equallycaptivating. Marv Ross was taping the talks, and immediately aftereach teaching I would listen to them with his headphones to try andcomprehend what Rinpoche had just taught us. We also had discussiongroups in the afternoons. But I was still utterly bewildered by thematerial (even though I had studied Kant and Hegel as a philosophymajor at UCLA two years earlier).

Karma Dzong -- with Jonathan Eric's inheritance -- was about topurchase the land near Red Feather Lakes which Rinpoche soonchristened Rocky Mountain Dharma Center (and Sakyong Mipham renamedShambhala Mountain Center many years later). The Pygmies were planningto move up there later in the summer, and I planned to move there,too. There was some discussion about me camping with them in themountains above Boulder until it was time to move up to "the land."But one of the Pygmy guys said it wouldn't work out because I was notdeferential enough to men.

The camp at Allen's Park had some horse stables, and one afternoon Idecided to go riding. The horse bolted away up the mountain carryingme along with him. As we raced past Rinpoche's cabin Lady Diana camerunning out and yelled at me "Kick him! Control your horse!" I managedto stay upright, but it was a wild ride. A foreshadowing of things tocome...

Chris Keyser
Berkeley, Calif.