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@@ -38895,3 +38895,68 @@ voice he sang the verses of his testament, which include the following lines:
     This is the supreme empowerment of empowerments.
 
   -- from "Masters of Meditation and Miracles", by Tulku Thondup.
+~
+  The view of interdependence makes for a great openness of mind.  In general,
+instead of realizing that what we experience arises from a complicated network
+of causes, we tend to attribute happiness or sadness, for example, to single,
+individual sources.  But if this were so, as soon as we came into contact with
+what we consider to be good, we would be automatically happy, and conversely,
+in the case of bad things, invariably sad.  The causes of joy and sorrow would
+be easy to identify and target.  It would all be very simple, and there would
+be good reason for our anger and attachment.  When, on the other hand, we
+consider that everything we experience results from a complex interplay of
+causes and conditions, we find that there is no single thing to desire or
+resent, and it is more difficult for the afflictions of attachment or anger to
+arise.  In this way, the view of interdependence makes our minds more relaxed
+and open.
+  By training our minds and getting used to this view, we change our way of
+seeing things, and as a result we gradually change our behavior and do less
+harm to others.  As it says in the sutras:
+
+      Abandon evildoing;
+      Practice virtue well;
+      Subdue your mind:
+      This is the Buddha's teaching.
+
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "For the Benefit of All Beings"
+~
+In the avadhuti, the main path of enlightenment,
+Prana and mind, bliss and warmth, are united,
+Becoming unconditioned great bliss.
+The wisdom of unobscured insight dawns.
+
+"This is unsurpassable," the guru has said.
+The darkness of ignorance is purified in space.
+One is free from the two obscurations of grasping and fixation.
+Therefore bliss and luminosity dawn in simplicity.
+
+This appearance of collective coincidence
+Is a reflection without self-nature.
+All appearances are realized like that,
+And just like appearances in a dream,
+All dharmas arise as illusions...
+
+When thoughts arise, rest naturally.
+When dreaming, be mindful without corrupting it.
+When in the pardo, don’t control, but be aware.
+When there is fruition, let it arise without obscuration.
+
+  -- from "The Life of Marpa the Translator" translated by Chögyam Trungpa
+     and the Nalanda Translation Committee.
+~
+The Four Seals in Buddhism are:
+
+  All products are impermanent.
+  (or all compounded phenomena are impermanent?)
+  ('du byed thams cad mi rtag pa)
+
+  All contaminated objects are miserable.
+  (zag bcas thams cad sdug bsngal ba)
+
+  All phenomena are selfless.
+  (chos thams cad bdag med pa)
+
+  Nirvana is peace.
+  (mya ngan las 'das ba zhi ba)
+
+  --from "Meditation on Emptiness" (London: Wisdom, 1983), by Jeffrey Hopkins