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@@ -37628,3 +37628,37 @@ nature of calm abiding.
   -- Geshe Gedun Lodro, "Calm Abiding and Special Insight: Achieving Spiritual
      Transformation Through Meditation", translated and edited by Jeffrey
      Hopkins, published by Snow Lion Publications
+~
+  Nature's law dictates that, in order to survive, bees must work together.
+As a result, they instinctively possess a sense of social responsibility.
+They have no constitution, no law, no police, no religion or moral training,
+but because of their nature, they labor faithfully together.  Occasionally,
+they may fight, but in general, based on cooperation, the whole colony
+survives.
+  We human beings have a constitution, laws and a police force.  We have
+religion, remarkable intelligence and a heart with a great capacity for love.
+We have many extraordinary qualities, but in actual practice, I think we are
+lagging behind those small insects.  In some respects I feel we are poorer
+than the bees.
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, "The Pocket Dalai Lama", compiled and edited by
+     Mary Craig
+~
+  Nagarjuna offers us encouragement in terms of someone of modest potential
+accomplishing the practice, in verse 116:
+
+        And even those who realized the truth
+        Did not fall from the heavens, nor emerge
+        Like crops of corn from earth's dark depths, but once
+        Were ruled by kleshas and were ordinary men.
+
+  Not one of all the sublime beings who have appeared--individuals who had
+direct realization of the Dharma of the four truths--was already a sublime
+being right from the beginning: they did not fall from the sky, nor did they
+emerge from the darkness of the earth like a crop.  In the past they were
+subject to afflictive emotions ['kleshas']--they were ordinary people
+dominated by the afflictive emotions.  They are therefore worth following as
+an example for accomplishing the path.(p.150)
+  -- Nagarjuna, "Nagarjuna's Letter to a Friend: with Commentary by Kangyur
+     Rinpoche", with commentary by Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Kyabje Kangyur
+     Rinpoche, translated by The Padmakara Translation Group, published by
+     Snow Lion Publications