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   -- Chögyam Trungpa, from "The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma.
      Volume Two: The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion", published by
      Shambhala Publications
+~
+  The appearances of this life--all the various appearances of forms, sounds,
+smells, tastes, and bodily sensations we perceive--seem to truly exist.  But
+life's appearances do not say to us, "I am real."  They only seem to be real
+from our confused thoughts' perspective when we think, "Those things really
+exist out there."  That is like what we do in a dream when we do not know we
+are dreaming.
+  Similarly, we mistakenly believe that aging, sickness, and death are truly
+existent...  but this is just confused consciousness at work.  The buddhas'
+perfect wisdom does not view this life, or the aging, sickness, and death that
+occur within it, as truly existent.  The noble buddhas and bodhisattvas with
+wisdom that sees genuine reality do not see these events as real.  Training in
+the view of the Mind-Only school that all phenomena are mind, and in the
+Middle Way view that all phenomena are emptiness, helps us transform our
+confused consciousness into perfect wisdom.
+  -- Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso, in "Stars of Wisdom", published by Shambhala
+     Publications
+