new fortune.

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@@ -39438,3 +39438,28 @@ conflicts are nothing to feel shocked or offended by.  Rather, we can address
 them calmly and with wisdom.
   -- Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, in "Beyond Anger: How to Hold On to Your
      Heart and Your Humanity in the Midst of Injustice", Shambhala Publications
+~
+Cyclic existence continues to evolve through the power of the unbroken
+relationship of the twelve links of dependent origination.  What are these
+twelve?  They are (1) ignorance, which afflicts wandering beings by keeping
+them from seeing true reality.  In obscuring the perception of true reality,
+ignorance also functions as the source for the subsequent links, such as
+karmic formation, by grasping as if there were an “I” and “mine.” (2)
+Formation afflicts wandering beings by implanting the seeds of subsequent
+existence in the consciousness.  In this way, when the root text states:
+“Wandering beings are afflicted due to…,” it should be understood to
+apply to all the remaining links as well, from consciousness on.  Accordingly,
+(3) consciousness becomes infused with habitual tendencies and leads sentient
+beings to the place of their birth.  (4) Name and form take hold of the body
+of one’s coming existence.  (5) The six sense sources bring the state of
+name and form to completion.  (6) Contact determines the experience of an
+object based on the coming together of three factors: object, faculty, and
+cognition.  (7) Sensation experiences the various types of enjoyable and
+painful karmic ripening.  (8) Craving creates the cohesion necessary for a
+future existence.  (9) Grasping totally binds one to such an existence.  (10)
+Becoming brings about the actual acquisition of this birth.  (11) Birth serves
+as the support for the suffering of old age and so on.  (12) Aging and death
+is the essence of suffering.
+  -- Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham, "Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya’s
+     Madhyantavibhaga with Commentaries"
+~