new fortune.

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@@ -39260,3 +39260,24 @@ Buddha’s Wisdom Body.  All we have to do is learn to transform these
 ordinary elements into their pure natures.  Then buddhahood naturally comes
 into our hands.
   -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "The Path to Enlightenment"
+~
+  There are three kinds of people [who practice Buddhism].  Like all other
+beings, the lowest person wants happiness and not suffering or rebirth in the
+lower realms of existence, so he practices Buddhism to create the causes of
+rebirth in the human realm or in the heavenly realms of the gods.  He does not
+have the power or the courage to leave worldly existence completely.  He only
+wants the best parts of worldly existence; he wants to avoid the worst parts,
+and that is why he practices the Buddhist religion—to gain a higher rebirth.
+  The middling sort of person understands that the whole of worldly existence,
+no matter where one is born, is suffering by its nature, just as fire is hot
+by its nature.  He wants to get out of it altogether and attain nirvana, the
+state that is entirely away from suffering.
+  The highest person realizes that just as he himself does not want to suffer
+and does want happiness, so also do all living beings have the same fears and
+wishes.  He knows that since we have been born again and again from
+beginningless time in worldly existence, there is not a single sentient being
+who has not been our mother and father at one time or another.  Since we are
+that close to all sentient beings, the best person is one who practices
+Buddhism in order to remove all these countless beings from suffering.
+  -- H.H. Sakya Trinzin, from "Treasures of the Sakya Lineage: Teachings from
+     the Masters", by Migmar Tseten