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@@ -38916,6 +38916,47 @@ harm to others.  As it says in the sutras:
       Abandon evildoing;
       Practice virtue well;
       Subdue your mind:
-      This is the Buddha’s teaching.
+      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