TANTRIC-QUEST-Encounter-with-Absolute-Love

which the meditator tapped into certain cosmic forces. Everyonemeditated, entering the deepest trances, stampingtheir feet impatiently at enlightenment's door, trying topenetrate its inner chambers. Partisans of Hindu gurus engagedin long oratorical debates with those dedicated toTibetan masters, and night met dawn in a sleepy daze.A Swiss guest had not come out of samadhi for twelvedays. The gopis, celestial milkmaids loved by the gods, wentto tempt him or bring him feasts. Some tried to protecthim; others shouted insane talk in his ear. The Swiss remainedin his great catalepsy while Miss Colaco observedall this mystical agitation with a weary and scrutinizingregard, waylaying the secret guests as they passed and, toplease them, pretending to believe their thousands of storiesabout vanished checks and phantom credit transfers.The Kama Sutra, the classical treatise of Hindu mysticaleroticism, held no secrets for anyone, and through the dormerwindows you could witness the most amazing couplingsof its Tantric hopefuls or join in happily yourself,during that astonishing time when only benign viruses cameto stay at Miss Colaco's.Fifteen days of assorted dealings in this mystical bazaarput me back on the road again to Kalimpong, where I revisitedHis Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, a gentle man, impressiveto look at, hierarch of the Nyingmapa yogis andgreat master of dzogchen, a practice that consists of spontaneousrecognition of the nature of one's own mind apartfrom any concept or dogma. Dzogchen is very close to theMahamudra of the Kagyupa school, which has felt its influence.Dzogchen, for its part, has been subject to the jointinfluences of Ch'an and of Shivaic Tantrism, of which the15