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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
-
+~
   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.
@@ -40933,3 +40933,44 @@ 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
+