Message from Patrul Rinpoche

Written by Patrul Rinpoche, Friday, 14 September 2007, Poland

Swimming in the Ocean of Compassion – Letter from Poland

There is nothing like the exceptional compassion of the buddhas, nothing to compare with it at all. It is this kind of compassion that we all need because it is this kind of compassion that excludes no one, not even one sentient being. It includes everyone. In this exceptional compassion of the buddhas, the confused mind, the mind that is ill-at-ease and exhausted from suffering, can find rest and take its ease.

Surely this is the meaning of Dzogpa Chenpo, the Great Perfection. It must be this because when we finally rest our mind in such exceptional compassion, the raw material for the refineries of ignorance that continually spew out unending rivers of non-sensical thoughts can no longer be sourced and the bright light of happiness naturally shines within our mind. It is therefore extraordinary, absolutely uncontaminated and faultless compassion.

Right now, I am swimming in the ocean of compassion. Its water is so pleasant. When I touch it, all my sicknesses of the disturbing emotions are completely washed away. Its effect is rippling through these pages at this very moment as you are reading this newsletter…