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@@ -37402,3 +37402,68 @@ suffering.  It is infinite and transcends all boundaries...
     4.  Svabhavikakaya is the indivisible nature of the other three forms.(p.165)
   -- Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen, "A Complete Guide to the Buddhist Path",
      edited by Khenmo Trinlay Chodron, published by Snow Lion Publications
+~
+  Boundless joy is the joy you should feel when you see gifted and learned
+beings who are happy, famous or influential.  Instead of feeling uneasy and
+envious of their good fortune, rejoice sincerely, thinking, "May they continue
+to be happy and enjoy even more happiness!" Pray too that they may use their
+wealth and power to help others, to serve the Dharma and the Sangha, making
+offerings, building monasteries, propagating the teachings and performing
+other worthwhile deeds.  Rejoice and make a wish: "May they never lost all
+their happiness and privileges.  May their happiness increase more and more,
+and may they use it to benefit others and to further the teachings."
+  Pray that your mind may be filled with boundless equanimity, loving-
+kindness, compassion and joy--as boundless as a Bodhisattva's.  If you do so,
+genuine bodhichitta will certainly grow within you.
+  The reason these four qualities are boundless, or immeasurable, is that
+their object--the totality of sentient beings--is boundless; their benefit--
+the welfare of all beings--is boundless; and also their fruit--the qualities
+of enlightenment--is boundless.  They are immeasurable like the sky, and they
+are the true root of enlightenment.(p.49)
+  -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, "The Excellent Path to Enlightenment",
+     translated and edited by The Padmakara Translation Group, published by
+     Snow Lion Publications
+~
+Regarding an online merchant...  I think I have bought a couple things from
+them before, and my "cornholio sense" is not tingling (a power I got from
+being bitten by a radioactive asshole), so I don't think they were jerks when
+I used them last time.
+  -- fred t.  hamster
+~
+  External circumstances are not what draw us into suffering.  Suffering is
+caused and permitted by an untamed mind.  The appearance of self-defeating
+emotions in our minds leads us to faulty actions.  The naturally pure mind is
+covered over by these emotions and troubling conceptions.  The force of their
+deceit pushes us into faulty actions, which leads inevitably to suffering.
+  We need, with great awareness and care, to extinguish these problematic
+attitudes, the way gathering clouds dissolve back into the sphere of the sky.
+When our self-defeating attitudes, emotions, and conceptions cease, so will
+the harmful actions arising from them.
+  As the great Tibetan yogi Milarepa says, "When arising, arising within space
+itself; when dissolving, dissolving back into space."  We need to become
+familiar with the state of our own minds to understand how to dissolve ill-
+founded ideas and impulses back into the deeper sphere of reality.  The sky
+was there before the clouds gathered, and it will be after they have gone.  It
+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