Pema Dorje was all smiles when he came to take me to my prospective Tsawa’i Lama.
The mistress of the house ushered us into Rinpoche’s room – and, there he sat like the King of the Universe. Rinpoche was not the King of the Universe because he was grandly dressed. He was simply dressed and his Lama’s appurtenances were simple. He wore a black chuba with an emerald green shirt beneath it. Both were noticeably faded – but otherwise spotless. He was the King of the Universe because … it was an indisputable fact of his existence. Other people have noticed it too and said the same thing.
Be that as it may, I stood there—feeling as if I were suspended in mid-air—and not knowing what to do.
Then all hell broke loose.
p56-57, Wisdom Eccentrics : Rumours of realisation as told by Künzang Dorje Rinpoche with additional tales of the unexpected.
Ngakpa Chögyam, Aro Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9653948-6-4