new fortune.

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@@ -38305,3 +38305,20 @@ is a race against time, and you should never put off dharma practice until
 next year, next month, or tomorrow, because the future may never happen.
   -- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, from "Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-
      Called Preliminary Practices"
+~
+  What we want to eliminate is grasping that is grounded upon falsification of
+the object, distortions that arise as afflictions grasp at the apparent
+substantial existence of an object.  Some texts say that mental states such as
+compassion and faith are, by their very nature, virtuous and thus cannot at
+the same time be afflicted mental states.  Yet there are other texts that
+refer to “afflicted compassion” or “afflicted faith.” For those of us
+who have not realized emptiness, when we generate strong devotion toward the
+Buddha perhaps there is within that faith, within that devotion, an element of
+grasping at the Buddha as substantially real.  This makes it an instance of
+so-called “afflicted devotion.”
+  Still, it is important to distinguish grasping rooted in falsification and
+distortion from the attachment, focus, or holding that we associate with
+compassion.  In our immediate experience, these two forms of grasping may seem
+the same, but in terms of the overall mental environment they are quite
+different.  Compassion is fact-based, while distorted grasping is not.
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama