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@@ -38153,3 +38153,32 @@ indispensable for this training.  This is how we come to the powerful
 realisation that the role of other sentient beings is essential in all areas
 of our mundane and spiritual activities.
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama
+~
+  To avoid being hurt by thorns and brambles, we might consider covering all
+the mountains with leather.  That would be impossible, but putting on shoes
+would serve the same purpose.  Similarly, if we tried to subdue all our outer
+enemies, we would never succeed.  Once one was eliminated, another would rise
+against us.  While doing this, our anger would continue to breed new foes.
+The only way to overcome our enemies is to turn inward and kill the real one,
+which is our own hatred.
+  -- Ringu Tulku, from "Daring Steps: Traversing the Path of the Buddha",
+     edited and translated by Rosemarie Fuchs.
+~
+  One should not view one’s dharma practice as being something decorative,
+regarding statues and images as material possessions or as furnishings for
+one’s house, or thinking that because there is an empty space on a wall one
+might as well put up a thangka for decoration.  That kind of attitude should
+not be cultivated.  When you arrange the statues or thangkas, you should do so
+out of a deep respect from the mind, moved by your faith and conviction.  If
+you can arrange these physical representations—statues and so forth—out of
+deep respect and faith, that’s all right.  On the other hand, the attitude
+that they are merely material possessions is dangerous and destructive.  I
+think that some people who have a cupboard or the like in which they keep all
+their precious possessions may arrange an altar on it just for the sake of
+decoration.  This is very wrong.
+  Having such motivations is not the proper way to become a Buddhist; the
+proper way to become a Buddhist is to bring about some positive change within
+the mind.  Any practice that can give you more courage when you are undergoing
+a very difficult time and that can provide you with some kind of solace and
+calmness of mind is a true practice of the dharma.
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama