The man that the Ashland Oregon Lama had me pick up in my 1974 International Harvester Scout II 4 wheel drive then in 1983 was called "Ken Ellis" from Canada. Over the course of the next year or so he introduced me and my family to several Tibetan Lamas that he had connections with including Chakdud Tulku in Cottage Grove Oregon who was a Tibetan Doctor and a Lama Combined who was also a Nyingma Lama like Gyaltrul Rinpoche who gave me my first initiation into Tibetan Buddhism in 1980 in Ashland, Oregon.
So, I took Ken Ellis to where he wanted to pray and meditate on Mt. Shasta. However, I also worried about him because I told him that it was expected to snow the next day and I put him at least 10 miles from the nearest Gas Station up on Mt. Shasta as he requested.
So, when one or two feet of snow came down I realized that this much snow would have collapsed his tent and that I probably needed to go rescue him. Also, a friend had left his School Bus that had a wood stove inside and a bed and other stuff iny storage there on my 2 1/2 acres. So, I went to rescue Ken Ellis from the snow storm.
When I got there he was really in a fix because the snow had collapsed his tent because there was so much of it. So, I helped him gather his things and put them in the back of my 1974 IH Scout II and headed home to our A-Frame and 2 1/2 acres of land in my 4 wheel drive vehicle through the snow.
I built him a fire in the wood stove in the converted School bus then and set him up staying there with us for awhile on the land because he was going to freeze to death otherwise. He began to teach us about Tibetan Buddhism through his experiences with Tibetan lamas in the U.S. and overseas. He eventually introduced me and my family to around 10 or 12 different Tibetan Lamas in Oregon and California, especially in Santa Cruz and San Francisco California and we got many more Tibetan Buddhist Initiations and practices during this time. within 6 months or so Ken Ellis took off and I have never heard from him since. But, our connections to several of the Lamas we met and were initiated by continued both in California and Nepal and in India at Bodhgaya where the Buddha became enlightened 2500 years ago there in India.
Gautama Buddha was a prince of Lumbini who was expected to be King of Lumbini which is now near the India and Nepal Border in Asia.
As I was composing all this I found a comforter fuzzy blanket with Star fish on it as I thought of Gyaltrul Rinpoche ministering to the Star Fish at the ocean somewhere in likely Oregon or California when he first arrived likely from India possibly from Dharamshala, India where there are many Tibetan lamas and Tibetan Refugees living near the Dalai Lama who is sort of the Pope of not only Tibetan Buddhists but in some ways represents all Buddhists on earth in some ways too because he is so famous as the Dalai Lama who ruled all of Tibet as a young man under the tutelage of Ling Rinpoche then.
I saw Ling Rinpoche in Dharamshala in likely January or February of 1986. I was taken there by a Gelukpa Monk who was a student of Geshe Lobsang Gyatso who was a Gelukpa Tibetan lama under the Dalai Lama.
So, when my family and I walked to visit Ling Rinpoche who used to rule Tibet until the Dalai Lama was grown up I walked into a slate roofed mountain cabin made of stones and cement. Inside were two monks taking care of the body of Ling Rinpoche. I asked whether Ling Rinpoche was ever coming back to his body from this meditation and they said "No".
However, I could experience as a clairvoyant in a way similar to Tibetan Tulkus that Ling Rinpoche was in Maitreya Heaven and projecting this heaven back on the Earth through me and my family. I went outside and cried in amazement because my own father had passed away about 6 months before this and I had pushed his body into a crematorium oven in Yucca Valley area of California after kissing him on the forehead then.
So, seeing the Maitreya heaven come through this Ling Rinpoches body in the Maitreya Mudra position of meditation was probably the most amazing spiritual experience of my lifetime.
And I have carried Maitreya's heaven in my Aura from this experience ever since.
By God's Grace
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