Bonnes et mauvaises circonstances

Selon Dudjom Rinpoche cependant, la véritable épreuve ne réside pas dans la maladie, la prison ou les chutes de mauvais karma, mais dans le succès qui s'ensuit :

The great profundity of this Dharma carries obstacles with it in the same way that great profit goes together with great risk15. The reason for this is that all the accumulated bad karma of your past lives will, by the power of the instructions, arise outwardly as the obstacles and apparitions of Mara. At the place where you practice, spirits will show their forms and call you by name. Taking the guise of the Guru, they will make predictions.Various frightful hallucinations will arise in your inner experience, thoughts, and dreams. In reality, you might be subject to attacks, quarrels, thieves, robbers, diseases, and other unexpected hazards. In the mind, for no reason at all, you will experience intense suffering and sadness, which will make you want to cry. Strong defiled thoughts will develop, while fervent devotion, aspiration to enlightenment and compassion will decline. Thoughts in which you see hostility everywhere will drive you nearly mad. Beneficial words will be misinterpreted. You won’t feel like staying in retreat, and you will be tempted to annul your promise. Inverted views regarding the Guru will develop. You will feel doubt about the Dharma. You will be falsely accused even though innocent; you will acquire a bad reputation; close friends will turn into enemies, and so on. So, various undesirable circumstances may well arise, outside and inside. 
Ho! These are critical points of eruption. You must recognize them. Here is the frontier between benefit and danger. If you handle these obstacles with the key means, they will turn into accomplishments. If you fall into their power, they will become hindrances. So, with pure samaya and persistent unwavering fervor16, give your faith and heart to the Guru, praying ardently with complete confidence in whatever he may do. If you take these difficult circumstances as something desirable and persevere resolutely in the practice, after some time the solidity of these conditions will collapse by itself and your practice will progress. Appearances will become insubstantial like mist. Confidence in the Guru and his instructions will grow as never before. Even when these happenings occur again, you will find a firm assurance, thinking, “That’s all right”. Ho! This is the point of solution. By bringing the circumstances on the path, the critical points have been settled. A la la! This is exactly what we old fathers want. So, don’t be like a jackal approaching a man’s corpse, longing to eat it, but his haunches shaking with fear. Develop a strong mind. Those whose accumulation of merit is meager, whose samaya and vows are lax, whose inverted views are great, whose doubts are many, who are high in promises and low in practice – such people, whose hearts smell like farts, request the Guru’s teaching to remain on their bookshelves. Clutching unfavorable circumstances tightly by the hand, they follow them; having easily found their weak points, the devil will be able to drag them down the path to inferior realms. Alas! Pray to the Guru that this does not happen.
If bad circumstances, which arise on the path, are relatively easy to deal with, good circumstances present much greater difficulties. There is a danger that supported by the belief that you have attained a high level of realization, you devote yourself to ways of achieving greatness in this life, and become the servant of the distracting Devaputra devil; you must be very careful. You must know that this is the crossroads where you can go up or down, the point where great meditators are put to the test.