[The Key that Unlocks the Door to the Noble Path (Lam bzang sgo ...

direct our thoughts over and over to some object that we desire, or something
similar. And because of this meditation our desire—or whatever other unhealthy
emotion it might be—gets stronger and stronger until we can say we have gained
some fluency in it. The idea here is to turn the process around: to perform
analytical meditations, one by one, on points such as the fact that the Holder of
the Diamond declared that one's lama is the Buddha himself. This way we
quickly come to a different type of fluency—in the realization of truth.
LAM GTZO'I SKABS 'DIR BSHES GNYEN BSTEN TSUL TSIG 'DIS BSTAN PA
YIN, RJE, BTZUN, BLA MA ZHES PA GSUM SKYES BU CHUNG , 'BRING ,
CHEN PO GSUM LA SBYAR TSUL YANG YOD,
The entire concept of how one should take himself to a lama in the proper way is
indicated here in the work on the principal paths with these simple words of
praise: "I bow to all the high and holy lamas." There is, incidentally, a way you
can interpret the words "high," "holy," and "lamas" in the line as referring to
persons of the lesser, middle, and greater scopes of practice.