When Rinpoche visited L.A., I rode with Bill Bothwell to bring him from where he was staying in Pasadena to the center in mid-Wilshire. As we drove through all the large buildings, lights, traffic, sounds and other phenomena of “Hollywood,” he just kept repeating, “All forms are appearance, all sounds are mantra, the nature of mind is pure.” Memories of that experience have come to my mind countless times, more than any other thing I remember hearing.