Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

pride—then a guru will appear. Then they will be fit
to benefit from a wise teacher's personal
instructions. They should not indeed think,
'Hinayana is not worthy to be my guru!' Such
thoughts are the highest conceit. Everyone new to
the Dharma can greatly benefit from Hinayana
instructions. If there were no pride among this
book's readers, this question would not have been
formulated."
To this question may be added another, as many of the
points are similar:
2. How can Vajrayana meditations be practiced
without a guru and his initiation? Even if the
visualization practices are described in outline in
this book, without initiation, mudra or mantra, will
not these meditations become like the exoteric
practices of the Mahayana?
If one has passed through all the foregoing meditations
in the Hinayana and Mahayana, then, by the grace of the
Buddha and the bodhisattvas and one's own earnest
prayers, one might find a guru of the Vajrayana. As
mudra, mantra, yantra and dharanis are not the highest
doctrines in Vajrayana, if one clearly recognizes the
principle of six-element causation and the four
voidnesses and blisses, such a sincere and diligent
meditator will get a guru, though he may not be a person,
but will appear in the light of meditation, or in dreams.
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