new fortune

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@@ -42147,4 +42147,18 @@ Gangra in eastern Tibet, prophesying that it would be in this location that
 Dusum Khyenpa would attain complete enlightenment.
   --  from "History of the Karmapas", by Lama Kunsang, Lama Pemo, and Marie
       Aubèle, published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+One cannot force or grasp a spiritual experience, because it is as delicate as
+the whisper of the wind.  But one can purify one’s motivation, one’s body,
+and train oneself to cultivate it.  Because we come from a culture which
+teaches us there is always something external to be obtained which will lead
+us to fulfillment, we lose contact with our innate wisdom.  As the Indian
+Tantric Buddhist saint Saraha says in one of his dohas (poems expressing the
+essence of his understanding):
+    Though the house-lamps have been lit,
+    The blind live on in the dark.
+    Though spontaneity is all-encompassing
+    And close, to the deluded it remains
+    Always far away.
+  -- Tsultrim Allione, in "Women of Wisdom", published by Shambhala Publications