slicker listing leaves off mbytes if there are none. also added gbytes count with...

[feisty_meow.git] / infobase / fortunes.dat

diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat
index 7d9a6fed195bfaa7f301a662ffe7e0424e582877..bb24da8cdd6c033df5e277b2032091bd097d5825 100644 (file)
--- a/infobase/fortunes.dat
+++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat
@@ -37178,7 +37178,7 @@ that these, and others, are the consequences of violating the pledges.
     The tantric pledges, like a dented vessel, are restored by the
         practitioner's strength.
       --Jamgon Kongtrul
-
+~
   When is it possible to restore a vow that has been transgressed?  All the
 tantras and transmissions state that if a monk has incurred a defeat with
 concealment, the transgressed vow, like a broken clay pot, cannot be repaired.
@@ -40961,3 +40961,16 @@ want ourselves—but that doesn’t matter.  The important thing is that, if
 only for a single moment, it has brought them some happiness.
   -- Dzigar Kongtrul, from "Light Comes Through", published by Shambhala
      Publications
+~
+Even if we think we have found the origin of phenomena, we are only being
+deluded by the karmic seeds of new discoveries which are constantly ripening,
+becoming exhausted, and being replaced through the ripening of other karmic
+seeds.  Yet we continue to be fascinated by trying to define substance,
+constantly trying to catch it, thinking that we have caught it but then losing
+it.  We are endlessly lured by the material creations of our conceptions.
+Sublime beings, knowing the characteristics of each phenomenon and the nature
+of all phenomena, are never lured by anything.  They abide in the infinite
+display of enlightenment’s empty appearance without trying to catch anything
+or being able to be caught.
+  -- Thinley Norbu, from "White Sail", published by Shambhala Publications
+