new fortune.

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@@ -41142,4 +41142,18 @@ Acknowledging this will bring us great reward in fact.  Doing the opposite,
 looking at things in a very simple way, keeps us trapped in ignorance.
   -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "Karma: What It Is, What It Isn't, Why It Matters",
      published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+There is magic in vajrayana practice and in vajrayana altogether.  People
+often think that magic is the ability to do things like change fire into
+water, or float up toward the ceiling and then come down again, or make tomato
+ketchup into cream cheese.  But we have a better understanding of magic than
+that; what is actually happening is better than those things.  We are not
+talking about magic in the style of a conjuring magician on the stage, but we
+are talking about fundamental magic.  This magic is always based on the
+profound effect that we have discovered from the hinayana discipline of one-
+pointedness and the mahayana discipline of openess and compassionate
+nonterritoriality.  Out of that comes vajrayana magic, which is that we are
+able to cut our thoughts abruptly and directly.  On the spot!
+  -- Chögyam Trungpa, in "The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness",
+     published by Shambhala Publications