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@@ -37429,3 +37429,22 @@ them before, and my "cornholio sense" is not tingling (a power I got from
 being bitten by a radioactive asshole), so I don't think they were jerks when
 I used them last time.
   -- fred t.  hamster
+~
+  External circumstances are not what draw us into suffering.  Suffering is
+caused and permitted by an untamed mind.  The appearance of self-defeating
+emotions in our minds leads us to faulty actions.  The naturally pure mind is
+covered over by these emotions and troubling conceptions.  The force of their
+deceit pushes us into faulty actions, which leads inevitably to suffering.
+  We need, with great awareness and care, to extinguish these problematic
+attitudes, the way gathering clouds dissolve back into the sphere of the sky.
+When our self-defeating attitudes, emotions, and conceptions cease, so will
+the harmful actions arising from them.
+  As the great Tibetan yogi Milarepa says, "When arising, arising within space
+itself; when dissolving, dissolving back into space."  We need to become
+familiar with the state of our own minds to understand how to dissolve ill-
+founded ideas and impulses back into the deeper sphere of reality.  The sky
+was there before the clouds gathered, and it will be after they have gone.  It
+is also present when the clouds seem to cover every inch of the sky we can
+see.(p.22)
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, "How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving
+     Relationships", translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins