new fortune

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@@ -43885,3 +43885,18 @@ it will lead you home.
 
   -- from "The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns",
      by Matty Weingast
+~
+If we are honest with ourselves, we know from our own experience that the more
+we try to find solutions to our problems through thinking about them, the more
+we start going around in circles, sometimes interminably.  Buddhism counsels
+us to resist being abused by our conflicting emotions and to let go of
+excessive thinking.  Emotions can be expressed in an unhealthy, self-
+destructive manner or in a healthy and constructive fashion.  Similarly, we
+can think in a self-destructive, confused way, which reinforces our negative
+habits, or we can think in a constructive way.  Buddhism emphasizes that
+overindulgence in conflicting emotions and distorted forms of thinking only
+reinforces our old habits, which solidifies our karmic tendencies even
+further.
+  -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "Mind at Ease: Self-Liberation through Mahamudra
+      Meditation", published by Shambhala Publications
+