new fortune.

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@@ -39504,3 +39504,18 @@ ordinary mental poisons.  For when approached with skillful means, all are but
 the display of the great and perfect equality.
   -- Jigme Lingpa, from "Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book Two: Vajrayana
      and the Great Perfection", by Shambhala Publications
+~
+    Recollection is the path of meditating on
+    The nature that was seen with awareness.
+    Constituted by the aspects of enlightenment,
+    This serves to eliminate the stains.
+
+  Recollection involves repeatedly recalling and realizing, in the context of
+the path of cultivation, what was realized when the intrinsic nature was
+directly seen with individual self-awareness at the prior stage.  In this way,
+the term recollection refers to all that constitutes the factors of
+enlightenment.  The path of cultivation is [referred to as such] because it
+involves eradicating those stains that are eliminated through cultivation.
+  -- from "Distinguishing Phenomena from Their Intrinsic Nature: Maitreya's
+     Dharmadharmatavibhanga with Commentaries by Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham",
+     Shambhala Publications.