new fortune

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@@ -41156,4 +41156,16 @@ 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
+~
+When, in the Mahayana, one goes for refuge, one cultivates an unbearably
+powerful compassion for beings, who have been one’s mothers in the past and
+whose number is as boundless as the sky is vast.  But it is not enough to feel
+compassion for them; one must be determined and decide to liberate them from
+their suffering.  As long as one is not free oneself, however, one is
+powerless to bring others to freedom.  Consequently, in order to free oneself
+and others from the perils of both samsaric existence and the peace of
+nirvana, one takes refuge in the Three Jewels, according to the Mahayana,
+until one gains enlightenment.
+  -- Kunzang Pelden, in "Nectar of Manjushri’s Speech", published by
+     Shambhala Publications