Crestone is a place where at your back you have the Rocky Mountains, and in front of you there is an incredibly expansive view. It’s a place where the earth is clean, the water is clean and the air is clean. So it’s a wonderfully beautiful and secluded place, an ideal place to practice the dharma. It’s a place where many tulkus, many emanations of realized masters are now gathering, have retreats, or are building retreats. So this creates a very auspicious connection for the teachings of the Practice Lineage to flourish.
All of these different students that have different teachers and tulkus have one common place where they can come – the extraordinary place of the Tashi Gomang Stupa. It’s a wonderful place to gather everybody together and make aspiration prayers for world peace and happiness.
Tibet has many sacred places where realized masters came to practice like Milarepa and Guru Rinpoche. Because these masters stayed in these places to practice there, the places became sacred. Similarly, because there are so many different emanations of masters practicing here and building retreats here in Crestone, this place too will become a sacred place. So all of you who are pioneers in this should stick it out while you have to do the difficult work of building the place. The future students who come we’ll have it very easy and will have all the conducive conditions to have a wonderful place to practice.
In this world there are many places where there are retreats going on, and people are practicing. Because of tulkus here in Crestone, out of all the retreat settings in the whole world, this is the best! This is the most extraordinary! It’s the retreat land of the emanations! And that’s why in the future this will become an extraordinary place.
