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@@ -41466,4 +41466,60 @@ required.  I mean, take just one of the most basic precepts, common to every
 religion under the sun: "don’t lie."  If you can read to the end of this
 paragraph without telling a lie, please alert the media.
   -- Susan Piver, "Start Here Now", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+The reason and the meaning of love in our life is very profound.  It is unlike
+any other reason.  In my own personal view, I do not think that love has to be
+for no reason at all.  Rather, I think that the reason to love is so vast that
+it cannot be limited to any particular reasons.
+  -- The Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, in "The Heart Is Noble", published by
+     Shambhala Publications
+~
+    Human beings suffer birth, sickness, aging and death.  We enumerate these
+different forms of suffering but prefer not to think about what they entail.
+We only need to watch a birth to know how traumatic and painful the passage
+through the birth canal must be for the baby.  Aging is distasteful to
+everyone but small children, who long to be grown up.  Everyone else likes to
+be told they don’t look a day older.
+    Even reading about diseases or hearing of others’ sicknesses fills us
+with a dread that we might contract them.  When we actually fall ill
+ourselves, we feel afraid and helpless.  As for death, everyone avoids talking
+about it.  Humans also experience the constant frustration of not getting what
+they want and getting what they don’t want.  When we first meet people, they
+may seem successful and happy, but as soon as we get to know them better, we
+discover they all have a tale of woe to tell.
+  -- "Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment", commentary by Geshe
+     Sonam Rinchen, translated and edited by Ruth Sonam, published by
+     Shambhala Publications
+~
+The idea is that passion should be transmuted into compassion for yourself and
+others.  This is possible because passion without reference point, goal
+orientation, or aggression is compassion.  When passion is transmuted into
+compassion, you do not abandon your existence, but you are able to be gentle
+and nice.  Since you are not substituting such behavior for your actual self,
+you do not feel particularly lost or deprived of your capabilities.  Beyond
+that, you can expand to others as well.  So you are full, but at the same
+time, you are empty.
+  -- Chögyam Trungpa, "The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom & Compassion",
+     published by Shambhala Publications.
+~
+Traditionally, many subtle distinctions are made about the various
+characteristics and levels of the development of bodhichitta.  Chagme Rinpoche
+mentions these and says, “If you are studying to become a scholar, you need
+to know all of these distinctions.  But if you are a practitioner, these
+distinctions are extremely unimportant.”  For example, I arrived here at
+these teachings by traveling in airplanes and automobiles.  Now, I might
+wonder, “Who built the airplane I traveled in?  How does it work?”  But, in
+fact, I don’t know the answers to any of these things because it is not
+important for me to know these things.  What is important is that I got on an
+airplane and flew thousands of miles and was able to get here.  In the same
+way, I regularly travel by automobile, and I might wonder, “How do you make
+an automobile?  Who made this automobile?  How does it work exactly?”  From
+one point of view, of course, it is good to know these things, but from the
+point of view of actually getting somewhere, it is not important.  What is
+important is that I got in a car and I came here.  So, from one point of view,
+it might be important to know all about the various aspects and
+characteristics of bodhichitta, but according to Karma Chagme, it is perfectly
+okay if you don’t.
+  -- Khenchen Thrangu, "Luminous Clarity: A Commentary on Karma Chagme’s
+     Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen", published by Shambhala Publications