fixed fortune

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@@ -43621,17 +43621,17 @@ And from bad teachers strive to keep your distance.
      Rest, Volume 1",  Translated by Padmakara Translation Group, published by
      Shambhala Publications
 ~
-Thinking about the self as composed of “aggregates” (Skt.  skandha) can
+Thinking about the self as composed of "aggregates" (Skt.  skandha) can
 help us reflect on our personal identity in new ways.  Generally, we attribute
 characteristics to our personal identity, feeling that it is solid, permanent,
 and real.  But here, describing the self as being composed of aggregates can
 help us see ourselves more accurately.  The word skandha can be translated
-literally as “heap.” This definition, when applied to ourselves, can help
+literally as "heap." This definition, when applied to ourselves, can help
 us see that we do not have a cohesive, real, and solid self.  We are just a
 heap of stuff — flesh, blood, veins, nerves, bones, hair, cartilage, and so
 on.  When we sort through this heap, what are we actually?  None of the
-elements of the heap is actually “me.”  We are a mere mishmash of material
-conditions that we have identified with and labeled “I.”
+elements of the heap is actually "me."  We are a mere mishmash of material
+conditions that we have identified with and labeled "I."
   -- Anyen Rinpoche and Allison Choying Zangmo, in "Stop Biting the Tail
      You're Chasing: Using Buddhist Mind Training to Free Yourself from Painful
      Emotional Patterns" published by Shambhala Publications
@@ -43649,21 +43649,18 @@ for the ways in which your tradition has come down to you with so much care.   
   -- Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, from "The Logic of Faith: The Buddhist Approach
      to Finding Certainty Beyond Belief and Doubt", published by Shambhala
      Publications
-
-
-
+~
 If we are attached to a thought, it becomes an obstacle to the development of
 our meditation or samadhi.  The remedies for reducing attachments to thoughts
-are called “pacification” and “taming the mind,” which involve what to
+are called "pacification" and "taming the mind," which involve what to
 do when we are unwilling to let go of thoughts.  Normally we regard thoughts,
 and especially certain thoughts, as either particularly important or
 particularly pleasant and therefore worthwhile or entertaining.  However, in
 meditation, thoughts are nothing other than impediments to what we are trying
 to do.  So, when we are practicing meditation, we have to maintain the
-attitude, “This is my time to meditate and now I am not trying to think
-thoughts.  If I let myself think, I am wasting this time I have to practice.”
-
-  ##--#Khenchen Thrangu, from "The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer: A Guide to
-Practice", published by Shambhala Publications
+attitude, "This is my time to meditate and now I am not trying to think
+thoughts.  If I let myself think, I am wasting this time I have to practice."
+  -- Khenchen Thrangu, from "The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer: A Guide to
+     Practice", published by Shambhala Publications