“In meditation, the face of my teacher
does not come to me very clearly,
but your face does, smiling one way,
then smiling another.”

—  Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama

Source: Attributed, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso tr. Paul Williams 2004, p.21

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