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@@ -38278,3 +38278,16 @@ is our buddha-nature.
   -- Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, from "Vivid Awareness" in "The Best Buddhist
      Writing 2012", edited by Melvin McLeod and the editors of the Shambhala
      Sun, page 200.
+~
+  If your engagement with others is tainted by strong attachment, craving,
+aversion, anger, and so forth, then that form of grasping is undesirable.  But
+on the other hand, when you are interacting with other living beings and
+become aware of their needs or suffering or pain, then you need to fully
+engage with that and be compassionate.  So there can be positive attachment in
+this sense of active engagement.
+  Buddhist masters have long used the term attachment to describe the quality
+of compassion for others.  For example, a verse from Haribhadra’s Clear
+Meaning Commentary refers to compassion that is attached to other living
+beings.  And as we have seen, Nagarjuna teaches that attachment for other
+living beings will arise spontaneously in the person who realizes emptiness.
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama