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@@ -39233,3 +39233,30 @@ of the Great Fifth later in this chapter, he “was continually absorbed in
 the wisdom dance that experiences all appearances as pure vision.”
   -- Glenn H.  Mullin, from "From the Heart of Chenrezig: The Dalai Lamas on
      Tantra"
+~
+Wishing others to be happy doesn’t mean we give them everything they want,
+because sometimes what they want can be harmful.  Wishing them to be happy
+entails wanting them to be free from pain and loneliness.  Wouldn’t it be
+wonderful if they were free from these and all other miseries?  In order to
+love others, we have to be able to overcome our anger and hatred toward them.
+We have to be able to forgive them for the wrongs they’ve done.  To do that,
+we have to get “me” out of the way and see that when people create harm,
+it is a reflection of their own pain, confusion, and misery.  We just happened
+to walk across their path.  We may even have done something to antagonize
+them, either deliberately or accidentally, but the reason that they got so
+upset is because of what is going on inside of them.  We might also look at
+how we made ourselves into a target or accidentally became a target onto which
+they projected their confusion.  Maybe we weren’t very considerate of them.
+Maybe we have certain bad habits of which we’re not aware and to which
+they’re reacting.
+  -- Thubten Chodron, "How to Free Your Mind: The Practice of Tara the
+     Liberator"
+~
+We humans are actually not that far from enlightenment.  Our five senses are
+like the Emanation Body of a Buddha; our dream body, which is similar to the
+after-death form, is like a Buddha’s Beatific Form; and the basis of both of
+these is the subtle mind of clear light which shares the nature of a
+Buddha’s Wisdom Body.  All we have to do is learn to transform these
+ordinary elements into their pure natures.  Then buddhahood naturally comes
+into our hands.
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "The Path to Enlightenment"