new fortune.

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@@ -37964,3 +37964,23 @@ if we lack various external facilities that are normally considered necessary
 for a happy and joyful life, it is still possible to live a happy and joyful
 life.
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama
+~
+COMPLICATED SIMPLICITY
+
+  Emptiness is the simplest and most unelaborated thing we could imagine, but
+then there is this whole literature about all these very discursive details
+with all their subpoints.  There are five paths and ten bhumis, and each path
+is divided into a number of stages, with certain numbers of obscurations
+having to be relinquished on each one of those subpaths.  Most people just
+think, "Who wants or needs to know all that?  Don’t we have too many
+thoughts already?  I thought this was about letting go of all reference
+points."
+  Of course nobody really wants to know all those details and in a sense we
+all know them already, because they are the details of the many reference
+points that we already have in our mind.  The fact that these sutras and their
+commentaries talk about our obscurations is precisely the point why they seem
+so endless and complicated—because our minds are complicated.  Emptiness is
+extremely simple, but our convoluted minds that do not get this simplicity are
+very complicated.  It is not that the Buddha and the other speakers in the
+sutras and the commentaries really like to, but they need to address each one
+of those knots in our minds, which are like knots in space.