new fortunes.

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@@ -37818,3 +37818,30 @@ perspective.  Be courageous and think of your future potential.  It is
 particularly important to do the best you can.(p.82)
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, "How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving
      Relationships", translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins
+~
+  What is very important for us to recognise is our own falsity.  This is not
+a judgement that sometimes we are authentic and sometimes we are false.  It
+means that everything about us in our ordinary sense of self is false because
+it is grounded on a misapprehension of the nature of reality....  It is like
+somebody in University who is having their final examinations.  They go into
+the wrong examination room and not reading the questions very clearly they
+write very long answers on their own subject that is unfortunately not the one
+they are being examined on.  It does not matter how good the answer is they
+will fail, for they are not addressing the question.
+  The basic question is always: "Who are you?", "Who am I?" but we do not
+understand it and so we answer with a ceaseless narrative of self definition.
+This covers over the freshness of the question, the possibility of looking and
+seeing, and so all our answers are stale, the reworking of self-protective
+versions constructed out of unexamined elements.  We have many, many, many
+answers and all of them are false.  That's why it is very important when you
+do meditations, to put your full energy one-pointedly into the practice, to
+try to repair the initial basic fault that has torn subject and object apart.
+  It is very important to stop being ashamed of being false.  For we have to
+see how falsity arises, how obscuration develops.  We want to look directly at
+our falsity and learn its tricks so that we will not be caught by them.  This
+helps to open the space in which we can recognise our own nature.
+  "When you understand the falsity of your confusion remain unartificially,
+effortlessly in the natural mode (dharmakaya)."(p.90)
+  -- "Being Right Here: A Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje entitled 'The
+     Mirror of Clear Meaning' with commentary by James Low", published by Snow
+     Lion Publications