January 1986: Ling Rinpoche: Experiencing one of my first doorways into Heaven

I had been staying with my family and a Tibetan Lama in Dharamshala, India which is about 6000 feet in elevation in the Himalayas in Himachal Pradesh state of India with is in Western India in the Himalayas where I was then. One of the Students of Geshe Lobsang Gyatso who had come to Santa Cruz to help Lama Yeshe of Boulder Creek pass over and reincarnate as a Spanish boy then, was traveling with us from Boghgaya to Varanasi (Benares) to Agra and the Taj Mahal, to New Delhi and finally to Dharamshala in the Himalayas then. We stayed at the Green Hotel then because it had hot showers. Since there was no heat in the rooms and it was winter time we bought a Kerosene stove to heat water up to sterilize it so we could make tea and soup and food but also to sterilize water so it was safe to drink for us by boiling it for 5 minutes on the stove. It also kept us warm in that hotel room then in January 1986 even though kerosene can be sort of stinky to be around but it was still better than freezing to death in the winter time there in Dharamshala, India.

One Day Thubten who was a student of Geshela (Geshe Lobsang Gyatso) who we were traveling with had gotten permission to take us some place by the powers that be there. So,he said "pack a lunch and bring your water containers there is something wonderful I have gotten permission for you to see." He wouldn't tell us more than that but we must have walked uphill into the Himalayas for several miles until we spied alone a little stone hut with a slate roof with the rood quarried from a slate rock area a few miles away. He took us up to this non-descript little hut and knocked on the door.Two Tibetan Monks greeted us with smiles and we entered as a family only to see Ling Rinpoche sitting in Maitreya Mudra (cross legged with his right hand raised in blessing and power) on the table. But it was obvious that he was neither dead nor alive. I asked how long he had been like this and would he ever return out of his deep meditation and they said "No"

This was the first time I had ever heard of or seen something like this where a realized and known master was projecting back a heaven realm from the other side through his body. I was overwhelmed because my own father had passed away the previous August and all I could do was to go outside and cry for about 20 minutes experiencing this. This likely was the most profound of all the things that ever happened to me in the 4 months I was in India, Nepal, Thailand and Japan at that time of my life.

This was my first experience of a realized master doing something like this of projecting his heaven realm back from the other side. Most people just die but this guy was projecting heaven back from a heaven realm and I was privileged through God's Grace as well as my whole family to experience this amazing blessing.

By God's Grace

Tashi Delek (Good Luck in Tibetan)