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@@ -37178,7 +37178,7 @@ that these, and others, are the consequences of violating the pledges.
     The tantric pledges, like a dented vessel, are restored by the
         practitioner's strength.
       --Jamgon Kongtrul
-
+~
   When is it possible to restore a vow that has been transgressed?  All the
 tantras and transmissions state that if a monk has incurred a defeat with
 concealment, the transgressed vow, like a broken clay pot, cannot be repaired.
@@ -40941,4 +40941,36 @@ said, "Tame the mind, tame the mind, use bodhichitta to tame the mind.  Even
 if we do not cultivate any good deeds in body and speech, taming our mind in
 fact benefits ourselves and all beings."
   -- Jigme Phuntsok, from "Always Present", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+Transcendent knowledge is beyond thought, word, or description.  It neither
+arises nor ceases, like the identity of space.  It is the domain of
+individual, self-knowing wakefulness.  I salute this mother of the buddhas of
+the three times.
+  -- Shantarakshita, in praise of Prajnaparamita, from "Jewels of
+     Enlightenment", by Erik Pema Kunsang, published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+To rejoice in others’ happiness without any preferences of our own shows
+that we understand that the longing for happiness is the same for all beings.
+We can rejoice in their temporal happiness, which has come from their
+accumulation of merit.  When we recognize the quality of happiness in
+others—when we see someone genuinely smile or laugh or see a glimmer of
+brightness in their eyes—we can rejoice.  When they obtain something they
+want or need, whatever it may be, we have an opportunity to practice
+rejoicing.  Beings long for all kinds of things, some of which we might not
+want ourselves—but that doesn’t matter.  The important thing is that, if
+only for a single moment, it has brought them some happiness.
+  -- Dzigar Kongtrul, from "Light Comes Through", published by Shambhala
+     Publications
+~
+Even if we think we have found the origin of phenomena, we are only being
+deluded by the karmic seeds of new discoveries which are constantly ripening,
+becoming exhausted, and being replaced through the ripening of other karmic
+seeds.  Yet we continue to be fascinated by trying to define substance,
+constantly trying to catch it, thinking that we have caught it but then losing
+it.  We are endlessly lured by the material creations of our conceptions.
+Sublime beings, knowing the characteristics of each phenomenon and the nature
+of all phenomena, are never lured by anything.  They abide in the infinite
+display of enlightenment’s empty appearance without trying to catch anything
+or being able to be caught.
+  -- Thinley Norbu, from "White Sail", published by Shambhala Publications