If you meet a mugger, you are enveloped within their atmosphere of fear, aggression and it triggers your own fear. If you stand near foul garbage for too long, some odor might linger on your clothes. If you meet a Tibetan Lama, the laws of Interdependence still apply....and you experience the atmosphere of their realization in some way. How they are. If someone like Khen Rinpoche comes to Tulsa and you know His Holiness Dalai Lama approves of him and he is the Head Abbot of a very important monastery, then it is safe to say it is all right to regard him as authentic. This is the benefit of Lineage.
So, if someone comes up to you and says they are a Lama, check it out. Are they who they say they are? Discernment is an important quality to cultivate. The judgmental mind, quick to evaluate mind can deceive us. But discernment...this is something special. It is a quality matured by meditation.
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