new fortune.

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@@ -38530,4 +38530,24 @@ of goodness or badness on phenomena beyond what is actually there and serve as
 a basis for generating desire and hatred lessen; this is because they are
 based on the misconception that phenomena are established in their own right.
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama
-
+~
+      Rely on timeless awareness, which is free of elaboration, without
+        identity, and the very essence of being;
+      do not rely on ordinary consciousness, which is a mind fixated
+        on characteristics and concepts.
+
+  Timeless awareness entails (a) understanding that the way in which phenomena
+actually abide is, from the ultimate perspective, free of all limitations
+imposed by elaborations of origination, cessation, and so forth; (b)
+realization of the nonexistence of the two kinds of identity; and (c) unerring
+knowledge of sugatagarbha as utter lucidity, the way in which things actually
+abide, beyond any context of speculative value judgments.  It is on this
+awareness that one should rely.
+  Ordinary consciousness entails (a) belief that what one immediately
+perceives constitutes something truly existent; (b) conceptualization in terms
+of characteristics, such as the sense of personal identity and the mind-body
+aggregates; and (c) mental states that are conditioned, for example, by
+attitudes of naively fixating on the pleasures of the senses.  One should not
+rely on such consciousness.
+  -- Jamgön Kongtrül Lodro Taye, from "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Seven
+     and Book Eight, Parts One and Two"