new fortune.

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@@ -39042,3 +39042,18 @@ response might achieve.  It is up to us as individuals to do what we can,
 however little that may be.  Just because switching off the light on leaving
 the room seems inconsequential, it does not mean we shouldn't do it.
   -- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, from "The Pocket Dalai Lama"
+~
+Basically we are trying to put a stop to frivolity of any kind.  Frivolity is
+an interesting word.  It can mean being crazy and indulging unnecessarily in a
+very crude fashion, but it could also mean indulging in something in the name
+of humor and overdoing it slightly.  If you are embarrassed to deal with a
+particular subject, you find another subject to discuss.  If you are tired of
+drinking vodka, you switch to sake.  If you are bored with talking to one
+person, you switch to somebody else.  Frivolity is anything that creates
+further confusion, or the longing for further confusion.  Confusion may seem
+luxurious: when you no longer have it, you begin to miss that confusion, and
+you would like to re-create it.  It is like going back to an adult bookshop
+and getting more magazines.  But with discipline, you control any form of
+potential escape from reality.
+  -- Chögyam Trungpa, from "The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma.
+     Volume Two: The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion"