new fortune

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@@ -41125,4 +41125,21 @@ caught in the thought.  The inner energy has transmuted from being something
 relatively neutral and therefore not very important or compelling into
 something entirely personal and therefore extremely important and compelling.
   -- Rob Nairn, in "Living, Dreaming, Dying", published by Shambhala Publications
+~
+    The Buddha, radically, interpreted the individual as a compound of many
+different elements, physical and mental--a psychophysical complex.  Therefore
+our feelings, thoughts, emotions, memories, dispositions; our perceptual
+capability, our cognitive capacities, and our physical conditions—all are
+constantly interacting and impacting each other.
+    And agents themselves are also continually interacting with other agents.
+Logically, then, we need not feel compelled to identify ourselves with a
+single thing, a core element to our psyche, as it is really a matter of being
+in a constant state of flux.  In this sense, karma could be said to operate as
+streams of networking karmic processes, where all kinds of living, breathing
+individuals are involved.  The really important principle to grasp about this
+approach is to look closely at things, for things in their nature are complex.
+Acknowledging this will bring us great reward in fact.  Doing the opposite,
+looking at things in a very simple way, keeps us trapped in ignorance.
+  -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "Karma: What It Is, What It Isn't, Why It Matters",
+     published by Shambhala Publications