new fortune.

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@@ -38196,3 +38196,23 @@ place you are inviting the hosts of buddhas and bodhisattvas who are the most
 supreme merit field, and that you will subsequently engage in a path that will
 enable you to purge your mind of the stains and delusions.
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama
+~
+  From the point of view of one who seeks enlightenment, it is far better to
+be a human being than to be born even in the heavens of the gods, where there
+is nectar to live on and all wishes are granted by the wish-fulfilling tree;
+where there is neither fatigue nor difficulty, neither sickness nor old age.
+It is as humans, possessed of the eight freedoms and the ten endowments, and
+not as gods, that every one of the thousand Buddhas of this age has attained,
+or will attain, enlightenment.  This human existence, moreover, is not to be
+achieved by force or mere chance; it is the result of positive actions.  And
+because it is rare for beings to accomplish positive actions, a precious human
+existence is indeed difficult to obtain.
+  Nevertheless, we have now managed to be born into such a state; we have
+encountered the Buddadharma, have entered the path and are now receiving
+teachings.  But if we are unable to practise them, simply listening to the
+teachings will not in itself liberate us from samsara, and will be of no help
+to us when we are confronted by the hardships of birth, disease, old age and
+death.  If we do not follow the doctor’s prescription when we are sick, then
+even if the doctor sits constantly by our side, the pain will not go away.
+  -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, from "Enlightened Courage: An Explanation of the
+     Seven-Point Mind Training", translated by Padmakara Translation Group.