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@@ -7449,7 +7449,7 @@ A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
 "Sir, if I were your wife, I would put poison in your coffee."
   -- Lady Nancy Astor speaking to Winston Churchill
 "Madam, if I were your husband, I would drink it."
-  -- Churchill's reply
+  -- Winston Churchill's reply
 ~
 If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
   -- David Daye
@@ -20463,10 +20463,10 @@ exist?  Yes, provided it is never known.  Known, it will only disappoint us.
   -- Umberto Eco
 ~
 The subjects that were dearest to the examiners were almost invariably those I
-fancied least...  I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew.  They
+fancied least. ...  I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew.  They
 always tried to ask what I did not know.  When I would have willingly displayed
 my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance.  This sort of treatment had
-only one result: I did not too well in examinations.
+only one result: I did not do well at examinations...
   -- Winston Churchill
 ~
 One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to
@@ -42923,4 +42923,106 @@ continuum of innermost awareness.  It is even said to be “naturally arisen,”
 since it has always been and always will be.
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "The Heart of Meditation", translated and
      edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+When phenomena are indeed seen to be devoid of true existence, great
+compassion will well up effortlessly, a compassion that will never abandon
+living beings who circle in samsara through their clinging to true existence.
+For as it has been taught, it is in the nature of things that such an attitude
+is born.
+  -- from "The Wisdom Chapter: Jamgön Mipham’s Commentary on the Ninth
+     Chapter of The Way of the Bodhisattva", published by Shambhala
+     Publications
+~
+When resting evenly in meditation with the points of body,
+If appearances cease and you are without thoughts,
+These are the doings of a lethargic shamatha.
+But when you rouse yourself with mindfulness,
+It’s like a candle, self-luminous and shining bright,
+Or like a flower that’s naturally vivid and clear.
+Like looking with your eyes at the glow of the sky,
+Awareness-emptiness is naked, open, and clear.
+
+That nonconceptuality that’s luminous and clear
+Is the arising of the shamatha experience.
+On the basis of that meditative experience,
+While supplicating the precious jewels,
+Gain certainty by studying and contemplating the dharma.
+Take the vipashyana that brings the understanding of no self
+And tie the sturdy rope of shamatha to that.
+Then that strong noble being with love and compassion
+Through the mighty strength of rousing bodhichitta to benefit others,
+Having been lifted up with a pure aspiration
+To the completely pure path of seeing,
+There, vipashyana directly realizes the purity that cannot be seen
+And then the faults of mind’s hopes and fears will be known.
+Without going anywhere, you’ll arrive at the Buddha’s ground.
+Without looking at anything, you’ll see dharmakaya.
+Without achieving anything, your aim will be spontaneously accomplished.
+  -- from "The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa", By Tsangnyon Heruka,
+     Translated by Christopher Stagg, published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+Trying to find the pain in life is the renunciation of hinayana.  Trying to
+find the ambition in life, trying to reach higher goals, is the
+bodhisattva’s ambition in the mahayana.  Trying to find the subtleties of
+life is the tantric discovery of mystical experience in the vajrayana.   
+  -- Milarepa, from "Milarepa: Lessons from the Life and Songs of Tibet’s
+     Great Yogi", by Chögyam Trungpa, published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+The root of our current unsatisfactory condition in a cycle of death and
+rebirth is our innate tendency to view the personal self in a reified manner
+(LRCM: 574).  We also have innate tendencies to view all other phenomena in a
+reified manner.  To achieve wisdom, or to know emptiness, means to overcome
+this reifying view, to realize that the self or essential being as thus
+conceived does not exist at all.  In order reach this realization, according
+to Tsong kha pa, one must use reason to refute the existence, and to prove the
+nonexistence, of this reified self or essence.  Having intellectually arrived
+at the correct philosophical view—that the self lacks a shred of intrinsic
+nature—one proceeds along the path to spiritual liberation through intense,
+deep, and extensive meditative familiarization with this view.  At the same
+time, however, the practitioner also cultivates compassionate engagement with
+other living beings, making a commitment to help all of them reach perfect
+happiness.
+  -- from "Ask a Farmer: Ultimate Analysis and Conventional Existence in
+     Tsong kha pa’s Lam rim chen mo", by Guy Newland from Changing Minds:
+     Contributions to the Study of Buddhism and Tibet in Honor of Jeffrey
+     Hopkins, edited by Guy Newland, published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+inexplicably ted was awoken,
+incredibly loud noise of the broken,
+his cat invaded the stash,
+seeking out some tasty hash,
+sis boom *bong* goes crash--ted won't be tokin'.
+  -- fred t. hamster
+~
+shania the stony gal really dug her twerkin',
+slingin' her booty all around was really workin',
+but the other dancers looked askance,
+and asked "can this chick actually dance?",
+shania wasn't so much dancin' as berzerkin'!
+  -- fred t. hamster
+~
+    All art is composed of subtle and gross elements.  There is no way for
+artists to express without elements.  When people use expressions such as hot-
+headed, cold-hearted, dry-humored, or all wet, it shows that they naturally
+connect subtle element temperaments with gross element expressions.  But
+artists must go beyond outwardly expressing the elements in an obvious way in
+order to gain experience with the inner subtle elements, which are the source
+of the outer gross elements.  Then they can make art which reflects what
+people need.
+    According to the Buddhist point of view, an artist’s intention is
+compassion.  Buddhist artists create in order to make a link with other beings
+through their inner pure elements, and to transform their outer ordinary gross
+elements into enlightenment by means of that connection.   
+  --  Thinley Norbu, from "Magic Dance: The Display of the Self-Nature of the
+      Five Wisdom Dakinis", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+Never admit defeat.  Just move the front.
+  -- fred t. hamster
+~
+down came eddy from his heady,
+where he dwells often unsteady,
+you see he gets so high,
+mind expanded to sky;
+real world grokking just not ready.
+  -- fred t. hamster