An extract from Volume IV of ‘Goodbye Forever

This photograph of Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje (sKyabs rJe bDud ‘joms ‘jigs ‘bral ye shes rDo rJe / སྐྱབས་རྗེ་འཇིགས་འབྲལ་ཡེ་ཤེས་རྡོ་རྗེ་) was taken by Ngak’chang Rinpoche in London in 1977 on the first visit to Britain made by this preëminent Nyingma gTértön .

Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje from Volume IV of ‘Goodbye Forever — the Miscellaneous Memoirs of an English Lama’. This was a teaching given to Ngak’chang Rinpoche. He was asked to edit the translated teaching into good English — which would then be translated back to Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche, to check the meaning.

Kyabjé Düd’jom Rinpoche Jig’drèl Yeshé Dorje said
“The word ‘transformation’ is used with reference to different processes. in terms of chö-dByings however there is no transformation of anything into anything else — or this into that. There is simply the primordial nature of Mind.
The nondual state may appear to be a change of condition — but this is only from the perspective of dualism. This is merely mind seeming obscured in the penultimate moment and unobscured in the present point-instant. This does not refer to a change in nature.
The sun may seem occluded by clouds and later appear free of clouds. This is not the sun of the previous moment having been transformed into cloud. And in this present moment it is not the cloud transformed into the sun.
The process of uncovering the fundamental nature of Mind is sometimes described as if there were a transformation of something impure into something pure — but this merely a conventional expedient explanation.”