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What happened before?
Someone has been in my mind for time with no beginning.

When was that?
There has never been a moment when they were gone.

Who are they?
I live, and live again, the mental afflictions.

And in the end?
They will leave me alone to rot in the ocean of suffering life, without an end in sight.

And the karma?
It comes like the wind, with all the things I never wanted.

How far?
It whips around me everywhere and stirs great waves – the three forms of suffering.

How long?
I could wander around this sea forever – the torch would spin and the circle of light would blaze.

What should I see?
Think on this, and see that the afflictions of the mind are the one true enemy.

What must be done?
The enemy of living for this life must die.

Who shall do it?
You must pretend that you are warrior enough to be the one.

When will it come?
Your foes, the afflictions in your mind, have always been there, waiting for battle.

Now then?
The time has surely come – go forth now and defeat them.

~ Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, the Fifth Dalai Lama