new fortunes.

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@@ -41798,4 +41798,36 @@ come to know, through our own experience, “This is awareness, and this is
 ignorance; this is mind, and this is wisdom.”
   -- Dilgo Khyentse, from "Primordial Purity", published by Shambhala
      Publications
+~
+He says Tibetans are unique because we value the practice of Buddhism.  He
+gives the example of Tibetan mothers who in the course of a day point
+repeatedly toward suffering.  They tell their children: don’t kill the ant,
+it will suffer; don’t pour hot water on the soil, the earthworm will feel
+the sting and the heat will cause it great pain; don’t pull the dog’s tail
+so hard.  We are told to think for the animals and insects who cannot voice
+their pain but for whom suffering is as acute as it is for humans.  From a
+young age, he says, we are reminded that nobody is free from suffering.  I
+agree that my Tibetan friends are instinctively more likely to brush away
+flies or mosquitoes instead of crushing or swatting them.  But why is
+compassion so important?  What about our land, our independence?  Will
+compassion free our land?
+  -- Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, in "Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love, Loss,
+and Belonging", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+    At the end of every meditation session, recognize what kind of healing
+experience you are feeling.  You could be feeling peace, warmth, bliss,
+spaciousness, boundlessness, richness, sacredness, or strength.  If you have
+multiple experiences, it can help to recognize the most prominent one.
+    The goal is to calmly enjoy the particular experience, resting in
+awareness of what you are feeling, without grasping at it or analyzing it or
+needing to think about it in words.  Just remain one with the experience, in
+open awareness, in silence, like water that has merged in water.
+    Purpose: This meditation is for sowing the seed of experience of the
+meditation, not on the rough surface of concepts or afflicting emotions but at
+the deeper and calmer level of the open mind.  Merging your awareness with the
+experience ensures the fruition of the meditation with greatest certainty.
+Open awareness helps unite your mind with the result of healing.
+    This meditation could also lead to, or be, the awareness state of the
+enlightened nature itself.
+  -- by Tulku Thondup, in "Boundless Healing", published by Shambhala Publications