Tomasz Pietrzykowski was in some ways completely fearless. For example, he hired me, a software engineer with no degree and just a recommendation from a sangha member, to manage software development for a new company that would develop a completely new kind of programming language. The Druk Sakyong named the company TGS Systems! I was living in Karme Choling at that time trying to finish my ngondro. So I drove to Montreal and flew to Halifax for an interview. I was aware that Tomasz hired me, in part, to help fulfill Rinpoche's KOS vision, to bring more of the Vajradhatu sangha to Canada, as he predicted problems to come in the USA. Tomasz took a big risk with me then and I'm glad to say that it paid off for TGS Systems while being one of the greatest technical challenges of my life. Tomasz and his colleague Dr Phil Cox had come up with the idea that computer programs could be graphical and based on the execution of data-flow diagrams. That lead to the development of the Prograph programming language which was released on the Macintosh around 1988 and which won various awards at the time. That whole intiative also took courage. As anyone who has done it knows, to ask a question of Trungpa, Rinpoche in a teaching setting took real courage. Tomasz did that repeatedly and it is often due to him, when reading the seminary and other transcripts, that his determination to stick to his line of questioning, in-spite of Rinpoche's often odd responses, produces invaluable insights. I was able to visit with him and Chandali where they were living in France about ten years ago and I kept in touch a little from time to time. His mind was still active and fertile with ideas. Tomasz was Polish and Jewish and I seem to recall that he was hidden and protected during the second world war by a catholic family. A terrifying time. After graduation, while on a trip to the West he defected from the soviet-controlled country of his birth. Another courageous act. Before I heard of his passing I was sitting in one of my outdoor meditation spots and some thoughts of my time at TGS Systems came to mind. In an instant Tomasz was there in the space before me and he was thanking me. For what I don't really know! The thanks should all have been mine. I saw that he was very happy and he seemed to be saying "I have to go now to meet the boss". So I had to sing the Shambhala anthem for him and to cry Ki Ki! So So! for this wonderful man. Thank-you Tomasz and I pray that we will meet again!