Chokma is a Chickasaw word meaning 'good'. I am a student of the Buddhadharma living in a small community in middle Tennessee. The land we occupy was ceded by the Chickasaw tribe in 1816.

21st December 2009

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In his seventieth year in 1798 at his hermitage-monastery of Tse-ring Jong, Jigme Lingpa imparted his final words: “I am always in the state of Ultimate Reality (dharmata),” he said. “Therefore, for me there is no coming or going. The play of birth and death is entirely relative. There is just Great Enlightenment, the primordial state of Liberation.”Still sitting upright in meditation, he let the body’s activity cease, and dissolved into the condition of absolute peace.

In his seventieth year in 1798 at his hermitage-monastery of Tse-ring Jong, Jigme Lingpa imparted his final words: “I am always in the state of Ultimate Reality (dharmata),” he said. “Therefore, for me there is no coming or going. The play of birth and death is entirely relative. There is just Great Enlightenment, the primordial state of Liberation.”

Still sitting upright in meditation, he let the body’s activity cease, and dissolved into the condition of absolute peace.