X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=database%2Ffortunes.dat;h=0611e03bfac622f6d08fc9c9715bcf835d2c09a8;hb=8f3329faed1743f0952b079c5245430fe46769e7;hp=ba9073647b298a94cc26dc04a43d5024aa79a59d;hpb=421df1005071e11116015a3b8e8160a5a320fb5a;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index ba907364..0611e03b 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -37818,3 +37818,111 @@ perspective. Be courageous and think of your future potential. It is particularly important to do the best you can.(p.82) -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, "How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships", translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins +~ + What is very important for us to recognise is our own falsity. This is not +a judgement that sometimes we are authentic and sometimes we are false. It +means that everything about us in our ordinary sense of self is false because +it is grounded on a misapprehension of the nature of reality.... It is like +somebody in University who is having their final examinations. They go into +the wrong examination room and not reading the questions very clearly they +write very long answers on their own subject that is unfortunately not the one +they are being examined on. It does not matter how good the answer is they +will fail, for they are not addressing the question. + The basic question is always: "Who are you?", "Who am I?" but we do not +understand it and so we answer with a ceaseless narrative of self definition. +This covers over the freshness of the question, the possibility of looking and +seeing, and so all our answers are stale, the reworking of self-protective +versions constructed out of unexamined elements. We have many, many, many +answers and all of them are false. That's why it is very important when you +do meditations, to put your full energy one-pointedly into the practice, to +try to repair the initial basic fault that has torn subject and object apart. + It is very important to stop being ashamed of being false. For we have to +see how falsity arises, how obscuration develops. We want to look directly at +our falsity and learn its tricks so that we will not be caught by them. This +helps to open the space in which we can recognise our own nature. + "When you understand the falsity of your confusion remain unartificially, +effortlessly in the natural mode (dharmakaya)."(p.90) + -- "Being Right Here: A Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje entitled 'The + Mirror of Clear Meaning' with commentary by James Low", published by Snow + Lion Publications +~ +groundhog daze: + this is an event that can be caused by strong intoxication of various sorts. +the sufferer passes out while seated at a table, such that he or she then has +their head thud down onto the table. after a brief rest, the unlucky person +wakes up again, and starts to rise off the table. when the head rises to a +certain point, where blood pressure starts to increase, the effect of the +intoxication takes over again, and they pass out once more. bam. hence, the +head repeatedly banging into the table: a groundhog daze. + i have seen this happen. it's not fun to watch. well, maybe a little. + --fred t. hamster +~ + We are the source of healing and happiness. Our generosity and concern +pacify every negative situation. As we send out kindness, we grow accustomed +to being strong and kind. In this way, our positive feelings are constantly +renewed and can never be exhausted. + Perhaps you know the story about the man who arrived in heaven and when +asked by God where he wanted to go replied that he wanted to see both heaven +and hell. First, he went to hell. There was a large table with all the +inhabitants of hell sitting around it. The center of the table was full of +delicious food. Each person had two very long chopsticks. They could reach +the food but they could not get it into their mouths because their chopsticks +were too long. They were miserable. No one was eating and everyone went +hungry. Next he was taken to visit heaven. All the inhabitants of heaven +were also sitting around a big table full of delicious food but they were +happy. They too had very long chopsticks but they were eating and enjoying +themselves. They used the chopsticks to feed each other across the table. +The people in heaven had discovered that it was in their interest to +collaborate unselfishly.(p.69) + -- Ringu Tulku, "Mind Training", published by Snow Lion Publications +~ + When you are in a fluctuating state of mind, like when you are angry or have +lost your temper, then it is good to bring back calmness by concentrating on +breathing. Just count the breaths, completely forgetting about anger. +Concentrate on breathing and count in/out "one, two, three," up to twenty. + At that moment when your mind concentrates fully on breathing, the breath +coming and going, the passions subside. Afterwards it is easier to think +clearly. + Since all activities, including meditation, depend very much on the force of +intention or motivation, it is important that, before you begin to meditate, +you cultivate a correct motivation... The correct motivation is the +altruistic attitude.(p.69) + -- Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, "Cultivating a Daily + Meditation", published by Snow Lion Publications +~ + The crazy elephant of the mind behaving wildly + Is tied to the pillar of an object of observation + With the rope of mindfulness. + By degrees it is brought under control with the hook of wisdom. + --Bhavaviveka + + "Wisdom" here is introspection. Hence, the example of taming an elephant +indicates the achievement of a serviceable mind by way of the two--mindfulness +and introspection. The subtle vajra that is the base on which the mind is +being set is like a stable pillar to which an elephant is tied. The +unserviceable mind is like an untamed elephant. Causing the mind not to be +distracted from its object of observation through relying on mindfulness is +like using a rope to tie an elephant. Setting the mind free from fault--when +it does not hold the object of observation as originally set--through +immediately recognizing such by means of introspection is like a herder's +hitting an elephant with a hook and correcting it when it strays from the tie- +up. + + Hence, there are two important factors with regard to holding the mind: + + From the beginning, stay on the object of observation without being + distracted to anything other than it. + + Then if distracted, immediately recognize such, and again focus the mind + as before. (p.94) + -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, Dzong-ka-ba and Jeffrey Hopkins, "Yoga Tantra: Paths + to Magical Feats", translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, published by + Snow Lion Publications +~ +Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor +technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or +defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this +you will awaken from your dreams. + -- Hagakure, Yamamoto Tsunetomo +~ +LEEEEEEEROYYYY JENNNNNKINZZZ!!! + -- To be yelled before irrationally throwing away all plans and jumping into + the worst possible situation.