new fortune.

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@@ -39367,3 +39367,14 @@ that is the result of authentic personal experience; and for this experience
 to find expression, an authentic guru.
   -- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, "Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called
      Preliminary Practices", Shambhala Publications
+~
+With regard to selflessness, it is necessary to know what "self" is--to
+identify the self that does not exist.  Then one can understand its opposite,
+selflessness.  Selflessness is not a case of something that existed in the
+past becoming non-existent; rather, this sort of "self" is something that
+never did exist.  What is needed is to identify as non-existent something that
+always was nonexistent, for due to not having made such identification, we are
+drawn into the afflictive emotions of desire and hatred as well as all the
+problems these bring.
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight", Shambhala
+     Publications