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@@ -37178,7 +37178,7 @@ that these, and others, are the consequences of violating the pledges.
     The tantric pledges, like a dented vessel, are restored by the
         practitioner's strength.
       --Jamgon Kongtrul
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+~
   When is it possible to restore a vow that has been transgressed?  All the
 tantras and transmissions state that if a monk has incurred a defeat with
 concealment, the transgressed vow, like a broken clay pot, cannot be repaired.
@@ -40884,3 +40884,93 @@ the mind.  Practicing either form of meditation takes joyful exertion and
 self-discipline.
   -- Khenpo Gawang, "Your Mind is Your Teacher", published by Shambhala
      Publications
+~
+Not acting on our habitual patterns is only the first step toward not harming
+others or ourselves.  The transformative process begins at a deeper level when
+we contact the rawness we’re left with whenever we refrain.  As a way of
+working with our aggressive tendencies, Dzigar Kongtrül teaches the
+nonviolent practice of simmering.  He says that rather than “boil in our
+aggression like a piece of meat cooking in a soup,” we simmer in it.  We
+allow ourselves to wait, to sit patiently with the urge to act or speak in our
+usual ways and feel the full force of that urge without turning away or giving
+in.  This is the journey of developing a kindhearted and courageous tolerance
+for our pain.
+  -- Pema Chödrön, "Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change",
+     published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+During lifetimes spent wandering in the round of rebirth without beginning or
+end, your present enemies were once extremely beneficial friends and your
+present friends were once harmful enemies.  Moreover, if you do not consider
+present enemies as such, but treat them helpfully as friends, it is possible
+that they will prove even more helpful than friends.  Therefore, rest in
+equanimity toward others: give up attachment to friends and reject hatred
+toward enemies.
+  -- Choying Tobden Dorje, from "The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to
+     Tantra, Books 1 to 10", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+Compassion is not logical.  It’s basically spacious and generous.  A
+compassionate person might not be sure whether he is being compassionate to
+you or whether you are being compassionate to him, because compassion creates
+a total environment of generosity.  Generosity is implied; it just happens,
+rather than you making it happen.  It’s just there, without direction,
+without me, without “for them.” It’s full of joy, a spontaneously
+existing grin of joy, constant joy.
+  -- Chögyam Trungpa, from "Mindfulness in Action: Making Friends with
+     Yourself through Meditation and Everyday Awareness", published by
+     Shambhala Publications
+~
+We have a Buddhist prayer in which we ourselves aspire to become like [the
+earth].  We say:
+
+    May I be like the earth,
+    Providing the air, the ground, water,
+    And everything she provides
+    That is our sacred source of life.
+
+Inspired by the example of the earth, this prayer encourages us to aspire to
+be an unconditional source of all well-being and life for others.  This is a
+supreme aspiration.  We do not just have a great deal to learn about the
+environment—we also have a lot to learn from it.
+  -- H.H. the Seventeenth Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, "The Heart Is Noble",
+     published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+Many people wish to be healthy, to be free from disease, and to remain forever
+young, but these are not very meaningful goals.  If you can tame your mind,
+the value of this will far surpass anything in the world.  Patrul Rinpoche
+said, "Tame the mind, tame the mind, use bodhichitta to tame the mind.  Even
+if we do not cultivate any good deeds in body and speech, taming our mind in
+fact benefits ourselves and all beings."
+  -- Jigme Phuntsok, from "Always Present", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+Transcendent knowledge is beyond thought, word, or description.  It neither
+arises nor ceases, like the identity of space.  It is the domain of
+individual, self-knowing wakefulness.  I salute this mother of the buddhas of
+the three times.
+  -- Shantarakshita, in praise of Prajnaparamita, from "Jewels of
+     Enlightenment", by Erik Pema Kunsang, published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+To rejoice in others’ happiness without any preferences of our own shows
+that we understand that the longing for happiness is the same for all beings.
+We can rejoice in their temporal happiness, which has come from their
+accumulation of merit.  When we recognize the quality of happiness in
+others—when we see someone genuinely smile or laugh or see a glimmer of
+brightness in their eyes—we can rejoice.  When they obtain something they
+want or need, whatever it may be, we have an opportunity to practice
+rejoicing.  Beings long for all kinds of things, some of which we might not
+want ourselves—but that doesn’t matter.  The important thing is that, if
+only for a single moment, it has brought them some happiness.
+  -- Dzigar Kongtrul, from "Light Comes Through", published by Shambhala
+     Publications
+~
+Even if we think we have found the origin of phenomena, we are only being
+deluded by the karmic seeds of new discoveries which are constantly ripening,
+becoming exhausted, and being replaced through the ripening of other karmic
+seeds.  Yet we continue to be fascinated by trying to define substance,
+constantly trying to catch it, thinking that we have caught it but then losing
+it.  We are endlessly lured by the material creations of our conceptions.
+Sublime beings, knowing the characteristics of each phenomenon and the nature
+of all phenomena, are never lured by anything.  They abide in the infinite
+display of enlightenment’s empty appearance without trying to catch anything
+or being able to be caught.
+  -- Thinley Norbu, from "White Sail", published by Shambhala Publications
+