demonstrated his interest in the welfare of sentient beings as a
continual and genuine concern.
When I started this book in an effort to help bring this truly
wonderful teacher's insights into enlightened awareness to a
widening audience, I<alu Rinpoche was still pursuing an active
schedule that included world travel to administer to the several
centers and three-year retreats he had founded. Some years later,
while I was still deeply working on the final draft, I learned from
His Eminence the Xllth Tai Situpa that Kalu Rinpoche had passed
quietly into his final meditation late one May afternoon in 1989
at his Sonada monastery. Two weeks later I received a personal
letter from Kalu Rinpoche's secretary in which he requested that
I share with everyone an enclosed open letter concerning the
events surrounding Rinpoche's passing. That open letter, plus a
letter from His Eminence the Xllth Tai Situpa in which he writes
concerning Kalu Rinpoche's passing, form Appendix A.
It is my prayer that the effort that has been put into making this
book possible has its truest reward in your own personal realization of I<alu Rinpoche' s fondest aspiration: "enlightenment for all
sentient beings, our mothers, limitless as space."
Elizabeth Selandia, O.M.D., C.A.
San Simeon
16 March 1992
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