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@@ -39504,3 +39504,37 @@ ordinary mental poisons.  For when approached with skillful means, all are but
 the display of the great and perfect equality.
   -- Jigme Lingpa, from "Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book Two: Vajrayana
      and the Great Perfection", by Shambhala Publications
+~
+    Recollection is the path of meditating on
+    The nature that was seen with awareness.
+    Constituted by the aspects of enlightenment,
+    This serves to eliminate the stains.
+
+  Recollection involves repeatedly recalling and realizing, in the context of
+the path of cultivation, what was realized when the intrinsic nature was
+directly seen with individual self-awareness at the prior stage.  In this way,
+the term recollection refers to all that constitutes the factors of
+enlightenment.  The path of cultivation is [referred to as such] because it
+involves eradicating those stains that are eliminated through cultivation.
+  -- from "Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature: Maitreya's
+     Dharmadharmatavibhanga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham",
+     Shambhala Publications.
+~
+  The Capable One spoke of the following attributes as the seven noble riches,
+for they are the causes of untainted happiness and are not in any way
+ordinary.  Faith—that is, the three kinds of faith in the Three Jewels and
+confidence in the law of actions and their effects.  Discipline, the avoidance
+of harmful actions.  Learning that comes from listening to the holy Dharma
+that leads to liberation, with the intention of gaining complete knowledge.
+Being generous—with a desire to make offerings and to help beings, to give
+away all one’s possessions without expecting anything in return or any
+karmic reward.  A sense of shame with respect to oneself that prevents one
+from indulging in negative actions, and that is unstained by such things as
+jealousy or seeking veneration.  A sense of decency with regard to others that
+stops one from engaging in unvirtuous practices.  And wisdom, that is,
+knowledge of the particular and general characteristics of phenomena.
+  You should realize that other common things that the world calls
+riches—gold, for instance—are of no value in obtaining untainted
+qualities; they are worthless, hollow, and without essence.
+  -- from "Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend With Commentary by Kyabje Kangyur
+     Rinpoche", Shambhala Publications