genuine guru is the first step, and also the most important step, towards the Path of Liberation. No doubt, Kyabje Chadral Rinpoche has been recognized by all the great Dharma practitioners as a great realized and accomplished Master and Holy Saint. It will save you a lot of time and effort, as well as doubts and search, if you can follow him as a disciple. The only problem is whether Rinpoche will feel that you are a "good enough" and ripe vessel for his precious teachings?

As a hidden yogi, Rinpoche's body, speech and mind must be very "secret" in terms of his Dharma practice and realization. Any realization from one's practice, if spoken from one's mouth, will lose its warmth and blessing. Hence, if one does not want to lose what one has so painstakingly gained through one's own practices, one must be very mindful of the meaning of "secrecy"! If there is such a "guru" who boasts about his/her own realizations in front of you, then you better be very careful and watch out! One should observe the "guru" from different points and aspects : such as, his writings, his teachings on mind training, his concepts and meanings of the Dharma, as well as his behaviors, in order that one can test him and find out whether he is a genuine or a false "guru"? We hope that you will not be stupid enough to take refuge from such a "guru" who, speaking of himself as having attained the highest stage of realization of the Great Perfection (Dzogchen), asks his disciples to buy his so-called "blessed" bottles of water (saying that it will cure diseases) for high prices? Not only this, those who have drank the water soon find themselves to be "drug-addicted" and cannot get rid of this habit. Furthermore, in using human thoughts and medications to control his disciples, this so-called "guru" boastfully said that his practice of Dzogchen will have "no need to adhere to precepts"! Kyabje Chadral Rinpoche's advice to us is that: "You should immediately go away if you ever met him, as if you are encountering a poisonous snake, and try not to see him at all ".

Kyabje Chadral Rinpoche had offered to Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche II all the teachings of the Wisdom Dakini Sera Khandro while they were still in Tibet. With this, Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche II was most delighted, and thus wrote a prayer of offering to Sera Khandro as follows :