new fortune.

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@@ -41473,4 +41473,21 @@ for no reason at all.  Rather, I think that the reason to love is so vast that
 it cannot be limited to any particular reasons.
   -- The Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, in "The Heart Is Noble", published by
      Shambhala Publications
+~
+    Human beings suffer birth, sickness, aging and death.  We enumerate these
+different forms of suffering but prefer not to think about what they entail.
+We only need to watch a birth to know how traumatic and painful the passage
+through the birth canal must be for the baby.  Aging is distasteful to
+everyone but small children, who long to be grown up.  Everyone else likes to
+be told they don’t look a day older.
+    Even reading about diseases or hearing of others’ sicknesses fills us
+with a dread that we might contract them.  When we actually fall ill
+ourselves, we feel afraid and helpless.  As for death, everyone avoids talking
+about it.  Humans also experience the constant frustration of not getting what
+they want and getting what they don’t want.  When we first meet people, they
+may seem successful and happy, but as soon as we get to know them better, we
+discover they all have a tale of woe to tell.
+  -- "Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment", commentary by Geshe
+     Sonam Rinchen, translated and edited by Ruth Sonam, published by
+     Shambhala Publications