new fortune.

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@@ -38551,3 +38551,19 @@ attitudes of naively fixating on the pleasures of the senses.  One should not
 rely on such consciousness.
   -- Jamgön Kongtrül Lodro Taye, from "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Seven
      and Book Eight, Parts One and Two"
+~
+  Such is the process of karma: it is ineluctable; its results are greatly
+magnified; actions not committed have no effect; and the effects of actions
+committed never expire on their own.
+  Generally speaking, whether you are an ordinary mortal individual or a
+spiritually advanced being, all positive experiences that carry with them any
+pleasant sensation—down to even the slightest pleasure caused by a cool
+breeze for beings reborn in a hell realm—occur due to positive karma
+reinforced in the past; it is not in accord with the nature of things that
+happiness be due to negative karma.  And all negative experiences that carry
+with them any unpleasant sensation—down to even the slightest suffering that
+could occur in the experience of an arhat—occur due to negative karma one
+has reinforced in the past; for it is not in accord with the nature of things
+that suffering be due to positive karma.
+  -- Jamgön Kongtrül Lodro Taye, from "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Seven
+     and Book Eight, Parts One and Two"