new fortune.

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@@ -40158,4 +40158,18 @@ good advice.  But otherwise, such attention can be a big problem.  You can
 exhaust yourself and cause nervous fatigue, and if you push it, you can really
 do yourself some damage.
   -- B. Alan Wallace, from "The Four Immeasurables: Practices to Open the Heart"
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+~
+If you want good health, you must insure that your diet is well-balanced and
+complete.  You wouldn’t just gobble up anything edible that comes your way.
+Spiritual food should be approached with equal care.  The practices you choose
+should be genuine and complete.  Sakyapandita said that when we’re buying a
+jewel or a horse—and the same would apply these days to buying a car or a
+house—we shop around and ask others for advice, but a wise or unwise
+purchase can only affect our fortunes in this life.  The spiritual practices
+we undertake can assure or jeopardize our well-being throughout many future
+lifetimes, and so it is essential to make a wise choice.  Milarepa said that
+unless the teachings we practice are free from errors and have come down to us
+through a living and uninterrupted tradition, time spent meditating in a
+mountain retreat will just be self-inflicted misery.
+  -- Geshe Sonam Rinchen, in "The Three Principal Aspects of the Path",
+     published by Shambhala Publications