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@@ -37448,3 +37448,22 @@ is also present when the clouds seem to cover every inch of the sky we can
 see.(p.22)
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, "How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving
      Relationships", translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins
+~
+  Usually the reason that we can't experience transcendent bliss is because
+our consciousness is actually chained by the illusion called "I." It is
+chained because this concept literally ties our consciousness to the prison of
+duality, the prison of concepts and ideas.  What most people experience is
+that their consciousness is chained by that illusion.
+  But now and then there are people who find the so-called spiritual path.
+This is another quite strange and sneaky way that ego can actually keep
+binding our consciousness once again to another form of prison, the prison of
+duality, the prison of concepts and ideas.  Transcendent bliss comes from
+breaking every chain.
+  Breaking all chains, losing every concept, every idea, sounds very
+frightening to the ego's mind.  But actually when we let go of every concept,
+we land on this infinite ground of eternal bliss, and that bliss is not some
+kind of religious or mystical experience, some altered state of consciousness.
+That bliss is not the result of doing something to our consciousness, rather
+it is the pure state of our consciousness.(p.74)
+  -- Anam Thubten, "The Magic of Awareness", edited by Sharon Roe, published
+     by Snow Lion Publications