new fortune.

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@@ -39761,3 +39761,21 @@ intrinsic vibrant emptiness--the beginningless ground of what we are.
   -- Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, from "Roaring Silence: Discovering
      the Mind of Dzogchen", published by Shambhala Publications and Snow Lion
      Publications.
+~
+Detachment doesn't mean "throw it away" or "don’t have feelings
+about it."  It definitely does not mean denying or obstructing the mind's
+natural tendency to project.  Imagine you are about to go into a cotton
+factory.  Before entering you pour glue all over your body, and then you
+demand, "I don’t want any cotton balls to stick to my body, but I won’t
+remove the glue from my body either."  Then you enter the cotton factory.
+Of course the glue, by its nature, makes cotton balls stick to you.  In
+meditative language, that kind of stickiness is called deliberation or
+fabrication, and here we call it the state of nondetachment.  The state of
+nondetachment is when you get entangled and you make the story line similar to
+that of a daytime soap opera in which four characters go on for twenty years.
+It keeps on multiplying and you exaggerate the situation.  You create a state
+in your mind that is full of grasping, clinging, and attachment.
+  -- Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche from "The Healing Power of Meditation: Leading
+     Experts on Buddhism, Psychology, and Medicine Explore the Health Benefits
+     of Contemplative Practice", edited by Andy Fraser, published by Shambhala
+     Publications and Snow Lion Publications.