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      states that any online discussion will eventually devolve into a
      comparison with Hitler or Nazism.  At that point, the person who brought
      either topic up has lost the argument and their basic credibility.
      states that any online discussion will eventually devolve into a
      comparison with Hitler or Nazism.  At that point, the person who brought
      either topic up has lost the argument and their basic credibility.

+~
+Your mind, the primordial buddha,
+Searches elsewhere due to the power of desire.
+Doesn’t it notice that it is wandering in samsara?
+
+Now that you have obtained the precious human body,
+You continuously get carried away by mundane actions.
+Don’t you notice that your life is running out?
+  -- Padmasambhava
+~
+    The key to understanding the truth of suffering is what the Buddha called
+the “three marks” of everything that exists.  All conditioned phenomena,
+he said, are pervaded by these three marks: impermanence (anitya),
+dissatisfaction or suffering (duhkha), and insubstantiality (anatman,
+“without self”).
+    According to the Buddha, if we do not understand how conditioned phenomena
+are marked by these three aspects, then we will not be able to understand the
+first Noble Truth.  We may do all we can in order to avoid facing the fact
+that everything is contingent and transient—we may try to hide ourselves
+from it, and we may even spin out all kinds of metaphysical theories of an
+unchanging, permanent, substantial reality to avoid this all-pervasive nature
+of ephemerality.  Also, if we do not understand that conditioned phenomena are
+unsatisfactory, we will not think about restraining ourselves from
+overindulgence in sensory gratifications, which makes us lose our center and
+become immersed in worldly concerns, so that our life is governed by greed,
+craving, and attachment.  All of these things disturb the mind.
+    If we do not understand that everything is insubstantial—anatman—then
+we may believe that there is some kind of enduring essence or substance in
+things, or in the personality, and because of this belief we generate delusion
+and confusion in the mind.
+  -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "The Essence of Buddhism", published by Shambhala
+     Publications