X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=database%2Ffortunes.dat;fp=database%2Ffortunes.dat;h=c899d940647c79fd63a7a1a7d0c8e9f7a1979865;hb=8215b157cb2b22ca58b9a8090fa8baabace90be2;hp=58fc8fd08cbd9379b13dd62ae72e8561e54f125c;hpb=238f171fb1d2e60b3cd93f8cb2392c71e8a1df73;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 58fc8fd0..c899d940 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -39494,3 +39494,13 @@ Two things stand like stone-- Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own. -- Adam Lindsay Gordon +~ +With regard to one’s behavior, one must relinquish all the limitations +implied in subject-object duality (gzung ’dzin gyi la dor ba). One should +abandon all ordinary ways of assessing outer and inner phenomena, and the +engagement or withdrawal of the mind with regard to “good” and “bad.” +One must not, through mindless clinging to sense objects, stray into the five +ordinary mental poisons. For when approached with skillful means, all are but +the display of the great and perfect equality. + -- Jigme Lingpa, from "Treasury of Precious Qualities: Book Two: Vajrayana + and the Great Perfection", by Shambhala Publications