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@@ -38551,3 +38551,43 @@ attitudes of naively fixating on the pleasures of the senses.  One should not
 rely on such consciousness.
   -- Jamgön Kongtrül Lodro Taye, from "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Seven
      and Book Eight, Parts One and Two"
+~
+  Such is the process of karma: it is ineluctable; its results are greatly
+magnified; actions not committed have no effect; and the effects of actions
+committed never expire on their own.
+  Generally speaking, whether you are an ordinary mortal individual or a
+spiritually advanced being, all positive experiences that carry with them any
+pleasant sensation—down to even the slightest pleasure caused by a cool
+breeze for beings reborn in a hell realm—occur due to positive karma
+reinforced in the past; it is not in accord with the nature of things that
+happiness be due to negative karma.  And all negative experiences that carry
+with them any unpleasant sensation—down to even the slightest suffering that
+could occur in the experience of an arhat—occur due to negative karma one
+has reinforced in the past; for it is not in accord with the nature of things
+that suffering be due to positive karma.
+  -- Jamgön Kongtrül Lodro Taye, from "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Seven
+     and Book Eight, Parts One and Two"
+~
+      "That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and
+      illusion-like nature.  Because feeling arises together with the mind,
+      it is not [ultimately] perceived." --Shantideva
+
+  There is nothing whatever that has a true mode of existence.  Nevertheless,
+this does not suggest that a person who experiences feelings and the feelings
+themselves—pleasant and unpleasant—are utterly non-existent.  They do
+exist, but in an untrue fashion.  Thus, the things that we see and touch have
+a dream-like and illusion-like quality.
+  In the second line the author refutes the true existence of the mind that
+experiences feelings.  Since feelings arise in conjunction with the mind,
+feelings are not perceived by the mind that is simultaneous with them.  There
+must be a causal relationship between the experienced object and the
+experiencing subject.  If two entities are substantially distinct and exist
+simultaneously, there could be neither a causal relationship nor an identity
+relationship between them.
+  For this reason the author denies that either [intrinsic] relationship could
+hold for the feelings and the awareness that is simultaneous with them.  Two
+mental events that arise in conjunction with each other are not able to
+apprehend one another.  This holds true for all states of awareness.  Thus,
+feelings are not observed by the awareness that arises in conjunction with
+them and that exists simultaneously with them.
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama