new fortune.

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@@ -38163,3 +38163,22 @@ The only way to overcome our enemies is to turn inward and kill the real one,
 which is our own hatred.
   -- Ringu Tulku, from "Daring Steps: Traversing the Path of the Buddha",
      edited and translated by Rosemarie Fuchs.
+~
+  One should not view one’s dharma practice as being something decorative,
+regarding statues and images as material possessions or as furnishings for
+one’s house, or thinking that because there is an empty space on a wall one
+might as well put up a thangka for decoration.  That kind of attitude should
+not be cultivated.  When you arrange the statues or thangkas, you should do so
+out of a deep respect from the mind, moved by your faith and conviction.  If
+you can arrange these physical representations—statues and so forth—out of
+deep respect and faith, that’s all right.  On the other hand, the attitude
+that they are merely material possessions is dangerous and destructive.  I
+think that some people who have a cupboard or the like in which they keep all
+their precious possessions may arrange an altar on it just for the sake of
+decoration.  This is very wrong.
+  Having such motivations is not the proper way to become a Buddhist; the
+proper way to become a Buddhist is to bring about some positive change within
+the mind.  Any practice that can give you more courage when you are undergoing
+a very difficult time and that can provide you with some kind of solace and
+calmness of mind is a true practice of the dharma.
+  -- H.H. the Dalai Lama