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@@ -42459,5 +42459,44 @@ be afraid to ask for help and stay on that reindeer.
 ~
 if you can't beat them, join them, and subvert them from the inside.
   -- fred t. hamster
+~
+regarding christmas cards...  
+"i would create my own as a desktop publishing activity, with all new current
+stuff.  but it's way too much effort.  basically, i can either give you a
+present or make you a card.  which do you prefer?"
+  -- thus spake slackathustra.
+
+III.  Path of Insight
+
+####The path of insight begins after the highest worldly dharma and consists
+of calm abiding as a basis for special insight focused on the Four Noble
+Truths.  Four insights correspond to each of the Four Noble Truths, making a
+total of sixteen—eight patient acceptances and eight cognitions: the patient
+acceptance of the cognition of the dharma with respect to suffering, the
+cognition of the dharma with respect to suffering, the patient acceptance of
+the cognition that is the subsequent realization with respect to suffering,
+the cognition that is the subsequent realization with respect to suffering,
+and so forth.
+
+####Why is it called the path of insight?  Because there, one realizes the
+Four Noble Truths which were not seen before.  At this stage there are seven
+of the branches of enlightenment:
+
+the perfect mindfulness branch,
+
+the perfect discrimination branch,
+
+the perfect perseverance branch,
+
+the perfect joy branch,
+
+the perfect relaxation branch,
+
+the perfect absorption branch, and
+
+the perfect equanimity branch.
+
+##--#The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, by Gampopa, published by Shambhala
+Publications