“Devotion developed through analytical and fixed meditation is much more stable, so whatever is happening, we don’t lose our devotion. That’s why, even if we have guru devotion, it has to be stable. If our guru devotion is based on what we see from the outside, but it is not developed from our own side with reasoning based on analytical and fixed meditation, then as long as everything we see is nice, it’s okay, but if our guru devotion is not stable, once we see a mistake, the devotion is gone. ”

–Lama Zopa Rinpoche