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@@ -43164,4 +43164,81 @@ immeasurable fault.  You will harm yourself.
     -- Kensur Lekden, from "Meditations of a Tibetan Tantric Abbot: The Main
        Practices of the Mahayana Buddhist Path", translated and edited by
        Jeffrey Hopkins, published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+The ground of primal wisdom
+Where the truth beyond all concepts is beheld
+Is reached more easily by humans than by gods.
+The essence also of the deep path of the Vajrayāna
+Is more easily attained by those who find a human form.
+The basis of the Dharma of both great and lesser vehicles
+Is said to be supremely noble--
+This human state endowed with freedoms and advantages.
+
+Just like a beggar who has chanced upon a treasure of great price,
+Reflect with joy upon your freedoms and advantages.
+In doubt and apprehension that you might be dreaming,
+Implement the sacred Dharma--
+Source of happiness and benefit in this and future lives!
+  -- Longchenpa, from "Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind", published
+     by Shambhala Publications
+~
+This lifetime passes like the weeping clouds
+Where dance the lightning garlands of the Lord of Death,
+And from them, day and night, there falls
+An endless rain to bathe the shoots
+That grow in the three levels of existence.
+
+The world and its inhabitants will pass.
+The universe is formed and then destroyed
+By seven fires, a flood, and then the scattering wind.
+The all-encircling sea, the continents,
+And even mighty Sumeru compounded of four jewels,
+All girded by the rings of lesser peaks--all this will pass.
+The time will come when all will have dissolved
+Into a single space.
+Remember this and practice Dharma from your heart.
+  -- Longchenpa, from "Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind", published
+     by Shambhala Publications
+~
+    The most important thing is to have faith and trust in the Buddha’s
+words.  The Buddha’s teachings were not taught to deceive us but to explain
+the way things actually are.  Many people try to analyze the Buddha’s
+teachings, but how is it possible to scrutinize a buddha’s qualities?  We
+don’t even know what will happen tomorrow, or when we will die, or anything
+about our future lives, so how could we possibly examine the teachings of the
+Omniscient One?  Since we are totally obscured by our strong disturbing
+emotions, in order to progress on the path toward enlightenment, we have no
+choice but to have faith in the Buddha’s teachings and apply them in our own
+lives.
+    The ability to practice Dharma depends on certain conditions.  For
+example, this is a rare time during which the teachings of the Great
+Perfection are said to flourish.  We’re very fortunate that through
+Padmasambhava’s blessings, such teachings have appeared and we’re able to
+receive them.  We must have accumulated incredible merit and made fervent
+prayers very sincerely over numerous lifetimes to be able to encounter such
+amazing teachings now.  Still, most people are just too involved in worldly
+activities to have time to practice the Dharma, and very few people in this
+world totally dedicate themselves to the teachings.  Most people work for the
+sake of success in this life, to gain wealth, fame, power, and so on, but none
+of these worldly aims can liberate us from the suffering of samsara; in fact,
+they only create further conditions for ensuring that we remain in samsara for
+countless lifetimes to come.
+  -- Penor Rinpoche, from "An Ocean of Blessings: Heart Teachings of Drubwang
+     Penor Rinpoche", translated by Ani Jinba Palmo, published by Shambhala
+     Publications
+~
+    "When the sun comes out and illumines the world, its image is reflected in
+all clean vessels of water, being in all places without coming or going.  If
+one vessel breaks, then the reflection of the sun does not appear in it.  Do
+you think it is the fault of the sun that its reflection does not appear
+there?"
+    "No--it is just because the vessel is broken; it’s no fault of the sun."
+    "The knowledge of realization of Thusness, buddha-knowledge, is also like
+this, appearing throughout the cosmos, without before or after: Buddha appears
+in the clean mind-vessels of all sentient beings.  If the mind-vessel is
+always clean, the embodiment of Buddha is always seen; if the mind is
+polluted, the vessel breaks and the Buddha cannot be seen."
+  -- from "The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of The Avatamsaka
+     Sutra", translated by Thomas Cleary, published by Shambhala Publications
+