to Dorje

There seem to be times when you meet the right person at the right time. In the mid-to-late seventies, when I first met Dorje, Trungpa Rinpoche was strongly encouraging his students to dive into, for us, the uncharted waters of ngondro and Vajrayogini Sadhana practice, to make this shift of commitment in their lives. Carrying my baggage of distractions and everyday justifications not to practice so much, I met Dorje. Dorje took delight in practice. She viewed practice as both inexplicable and joyful in its devotional quality. Her cynicism was tough on excuses not to step in. It was very good to meet her, especially at those crossroads.

Frank Iglehart