new fortune.

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@@ -39929,3 +39929,18 @@ transforming from negative to positive, and then from positive to perfection,
 is the ideal way to move toward buddhahood, or full perfection.
   -- Tulku Thondup, from "Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist
      Guidebook", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+  In the final stanza of his salutation, Tsong-kha-pa (1: 34) calls upon
+readers who may benefit from this approach, asking them to listen well.  Such
+readers will be those with minds unclouded by biased thinking, the mental
+capacity to distinguish right from wrong, and an interest in finding real
+meaning in their human existence of leisure and opportunity.  He asks those of
+us with such good fortune, "Please listen to what I have to say with a
+single-pointed mind."
+  Again, this is strikingly similar to Aryadeva’s Four Hundred, which says
+that a practitioner of the Dharma who is listening to the teachings needs
+three qualities: objectivity, critical intelligence, and a real interest in
+what is being taught.
+  -- H. H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, in "From Here to Enlightenment: An
+     Introduction to Tsong-kha-pa’s Classic Text The Great Treatise on the
+     Stages of the Path to Enlightenment", published by Shambhala Publications