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@@ -38825,3 +38825,44 @@ in your life has always been touched by the sacredness of vajrayana, even
 before you knew it.
   -- Chogyam Trungpa, from "The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma,
      Volume Three: The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness"
+~
+All suffering in this life and others is created by the unsubdued mind.
+Similarly, the basis of all the practices of the six paramitas, such as
+generosity, moral discipline, and so on, is the mind.
+
+Nothing is more important than guarding the mind.  Let us constantly keep
+watch over the wild elephant of the mind, curbing it with mindfulness and
+vigilance.  This is how to avoid being influenced by different external
+conditions.  But even in retreat in a very secluded place, if the mind is not
+kept under control, it will wander all over the place.  Even completely alone,
+we can have an enormous amount of negative emotions.
+
+How are we to guard the mind?  We should use attentiveness to watch our
+thoughts and use mindfulness to judge whether we are acting correctly.  With
+these two we have the means to annihilate all adverse conditions.  But without
+them, we will not see whether our thoughts are positive or negative or whether
+we are doing right or wrong, nor will we then be able to use antidotes as
+necessary.
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama
+~
+The great yogi Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol replies to a Losar Day request from
+his disciple Depa Wangpo on what to adopt and what to reject regarding
+attitude and conduct...
+
+    Don’t harm your friends and neighbors; help them.
+    Don’t be stingy; use your wealth for offerings and charity.
+    Don’t let your body be idle; do prostrations and circumambulations.
+    Don’t let your mouth be idle; recite the mani mantra.
+    Always have pure thoughts towards others.
+
+    In brief, keeping Death in mind, practice the sacred Dharma.
+    Give up doing wrong, and do what is wholesome.
+    Whatever happiness and sufferings you undergo,
+    Regard them as the result of previous actions.
+    Always act in accord with the Dharma.
+    Even though I may be far away,
+    These instructions will remain like my very presence.
+    Keep them in mind!
+
+  -- Shabkar Natshok Rangdrol, in "The Life of Shabkar"
+