Keith Dowman

Sky Dancer, the Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel

An accomplished Guru can do much of the neophyte's work for him, but it is painful to have one's cherished beliefs demolished, and it requires a great deal of faith on the part of the disciple to permit the Guru to tamper with the thought that is inseperable from his ego. The Dzokchen Guru is the man or woman who with a word, a gesture, a game, or even a powerful samadhi, can induce his disciple to transcend his thought, to laugh at his projections and paranoias, to abandon his convictions, and then, either formally in a ritual situation or informally in direct rapport, introduce to him the nature of his own mind.