moving the forms to a more congenial folder name that's not in the way of the fortune...

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@@ -38825,3 +38825,23 @@ in your life has always been touched by the sacredness of vajrayana, even
 before you knew it.
   -- Chogyam Trungpa, from "The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma,
      Volume Three: The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness"
+~
+All suffering in this life and others is created by the unsubdued mind.
+Similarly, the basis of all the practices of the six paramitas, such as
+generosity, moral discipline, and so on, is the mind.
+
+Nothing is more important than guarding the mind.  Let us constantly keep
+watch over the wild elephant of the mind, curbing it with mindfulness and
+vigilance.  This is how to avoid being influenced by different external
+conditions.  But even in retreat in a very secluded place, if the mind is not
+kept under control, it will wander all over the place.  Even completely alone,
+we can have an enormous amount of negative emotions.
+
+How are we to guard the mind?  We should use attentiveness to watch our
+thoughts and use mindfulness to judge whether we are acting correctly.  With
+these two we have the means to annihilate all adverse conditions.  But without
+them, we will not see whether our thoughts are positive or negative or whether
+we are doing right or wrong, nor will we then be able to use antidotes as
+necessary.
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama
+