When you check into a hotel you don’t immediately start thinking that you’ll spend eternity with the managers, maids, and waiters. Your home, your friends, your ideals and values are just part of a hotel experience. Sooner or later, you will have to check out and leave them all behind.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

from the book The Guru Drinks Bourbon?

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• The authentic guru lineage is indispensable
• A proper guru-student communication
• A different interpretation of austerity
• Going beyond Rational and Irrational Devotion
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• Devotion
• Never opt for the easy way out
• Good gurus are on the verge of extinction
• You and only you will decide
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