The relationship between teacher and student is fundamental to Vajrayana. Within the theatre of this relationship you can become transparent to yourself, and through becoming transparent, your constricted sense of being is liberated.Devotion to the Lama enables the student to be empty in relation to the Lama. This allows the Lama to conjure with the form of the student’s neuroses to mirror them, so that they become transparent for the student.
If one is open to receiving transmission, then a great deal can be achieved in such moments. Huge shifts can be made in an instant. This is only possible within a relationship based on confidence in the teacher and openness in the student.
p59 and 62, Illusory Advice Ngakma Nor’dzin and Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books, 2015, ISBN: 978-1898185-37-6