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@@ -38844,4 +38844,119 @@ 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"
+~
+On the very night of Dodrupchen’s death, his spiritual testament was
+received by his principal disciple, Do Khyentse.  Dodrupchen appeared in the
+sky in a radiant light body and an attire of lights.  He was floating on a
+carpet of light, which was held up by four dakinis.  In a very enchanting
+voice he sang the verses of his testament, which include the following lines:
+
+    I am going into the expanse of the Wisdom of the Ultimate Sphere,
+    Which is the state that transcends thoughts and expressions.
+    I am going into the state of Mirrorlike Wisdom,
+    Which is the ceaseless clear glow, fresh and open.
+    I am going into the expanse of the Wisdom of Evenness,
+    In which all the thoughts of grasping and grasper have vanished into the
+        ultimate sphere.
+    I am going into the Wisdom of Discriminative Awareness,
+    Which is the clarity, the dawn of six kinds of foreknowledge.
+    I am going into the state of the Wisdom of Accomplishment,
+    Which emanates various manifestations in accordance with [the needs of]
+        trainable beings.
+
+    Son, please stay healthy.
+    Now you have won over the obstructions of your life.
+    Until all the phenomenal existents are liberated as the signs and
+        teachings [of Dharma],
+    [You should be] aware of samsara and nirvana as dreams and illusions.
+    Dedicate yourself to the meditation where there is no reference point.
+    This is the empowerment of total entrustment and aspiration.
+    This is the supreme empowerment of empowerments.
+
+  -- from "Masters of Meditation and Miracles", by Tulku Thondup.
+~
+  The view of interdependence makes for a great openness of mind.  In general,
+instead of realizing that what we experience arises from a complicated network
+of causes, we tend to attribute happiness or sadness, for example, to single,
+individual sources.  But if this were so, as soon as we came into contact with
+what we consider to be good, we would be automatically happy, and conversely,
+in the case of bad things, invariably sad.  The causes of joy and sorrow would
+be easy to identify and target.  It would all be very simple, and there would
+be good reason for our anger and attachment.  When, on the other hand, we
+consider that everything we experience results from a complex interplay of
+causes and conditions, we find that there is no single thing to desire or
+resent, and it is more difficult for the afflictions of attachment or anger to
+arise.  In this way, the view of interdependence makes our minds more relaxed
+and open.
+  By training our minds and getting used to this view, we change our way of
+seeing things, and as a result we gradually change our behavior and do less
+harm to others.  As it says in the sutras:
+
+      Abandon evildoing;
+      Practice virtue well;
+      Subdue your mind:
+      This is the Buddha's teaching.
+
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "For the Benefit of All Beings"
+~
+In the avadhuti, the main path of enlightenment,
+Prana and mind, bliss and warmth, are united,
+Becoming unconditioned great bliss.
+The wisdom of unobscured insight dawns.
+
+"This is unsurpassable," the guru has said.
+The darkness of ignorance is purified in space.
+One is free from the two obscurations of grasping and fixation.
+Therefore bliss and luminosity dawn in simplicity.
+
+This appearance of collective coincidence
+Is a reflection without self-nature.
+All appearances are realized like that,
+And just like appearances in a dream,
+All dharmas arise as illusions...
+
+When thoughts arise, rest naturally.
+When dreaming, be mindful without corrupting it.
+When in the pardo, don’t control, but be aware.
+When there is fruition, let it arise without obscuration.
+
+  -- from "The Life of Marpa the Translator" translated by Chögyam Trungpa
+     and the Nalanda Translation Committee.
+~
+The Four Seals in Buddhism are:
+
+  All products are impermanent.
+  (or all compounded phenomena are impermanent?)
+  ('du byed thams cad mi rtag pa)
+
+  All contaminated objects are miserable.
+  (zag bcas thams cad sdug bsngal ba)
+
+  All phenomena are selfless.
+  (chos thams cad bdag med pa)
+
+  Nirvana is peace.
+  (mya ngan las 'das ba zhi ba)
+
+  --from "Meditation on Emptiness" (London: Wisdom, 1983), by Jeffrey Hopkins