new fortune.

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@@ -39074,3 +39074,26 @@ we are able to overcome confusion and anxiety, even our anxiety is not
 regarded as anti-dharma or anti-path.  Cosmic wakefulness takes place.
   -- Chögyam Trungpa's in the foreword to "The Rain of Wisdom: The Essence of
      the Ocean of True Meaning"
+~
+Scrutinize Apperances
+
+No matter what our mind makes appear as an object of one of our six
+collections of consciousness—sights, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile or
+bodily sensations, or mental objects or events—we thoroughly scrutinize its
+mode of appearance.  Our mind is making it appear as though its existence were
+established by virtue of itself, empowered by some truly and inherently
+existent self-nature—and not by virtue simply of mental labeling
+establishing its existence as what can be labeled "this" or "that"
+from this side.  We thoroughly scrutinize this mode of appearance and the mode
+of existence it implies.  There does appear to be something solidly there, not
+existing as what it is by virtue simply of mental labeling, but by virtue of
+itself, independently of anything else.  But, by reminding ourselves that it
+does not exist as it appears to exist—by being mindful that its existence
+and identity are not established through its own power—we automatically
+reconfirm and become even stronger in our conviction in its bare mode of
+existence.  In other words, as the text [the First Panchen Lama’s A Root
+Text for the Precious Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra] says, "[You
+experience] their bare mode of existence dawning in an exposed, resplendent
+manner."
+  -- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, from "The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition
+     of Mahamudra"