X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=database%2Ffortunes.dat;h=2c6e739e975ac62e33be79678bed0ed0aadb290f;hb=d3a4525a35121353724f66f57fac2e8b5b0dfca4;hp=b594f1870825584de7144e9f5e049de397ab4618;hpb=b0f7b15c298fdbd9714e49112e1fc76e43c1eb9b;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index b594f187..2c6e739e 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -37402,3 +37402,133 @@ suffering. It is infinite and transcends all boundaries... 4. Svabhavikakaya is the indivisible nature of the other three forms.(p.165) -- Khenchen Konchog Gyaltshen, "A Complete Guide to the Buddhist Path", edited by Khenmo Trinlay Chodron, published by Snow Lion Publications +~ + Boundless joy is the joy you should feel when you see gifted and learned +beings who are happy, famous or influential. Instead of feeling uneasy and +envious of their good fortune, rejoice sincerely, thinking, "May they continue +to be happy and enjoy even more happiness!" Pray too that they may use their +wealth and power to help others, to serve the Dharma and the Sangha, making +offerings, building monasteries, propagating the teachings and performing +other worthwhile deeds. Rejoice and make a wish: "May they never lost all +their happiness and privileges. May their happiness increase more and more, +and may they use it to benefit others and to further the teachings." + Pray that your mind may be filled with boundless equanimity, loving- +kindness, compassion and joy--as boundless as a Bodhisattva's. If you do so, +genuine bodhichitta will certainly grow within you. + The reason these four qualities are boundless, or immeasurable, is that +their object--the totality of sentient beings--is boundless; their benefit-- +the welfare of all beings--is boundless; and also their fruit--the qualities +of enlightenment--is boundless. They are immeasurable like the sky, and they +are the true root of enlightenment.(p.49) + -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, "The Excellent Path to Enlightenment", + translated and edited by The Padmakara Translation Group, published by + Snow Lion Publications +~ +Regarding an online merchant... I think I have bought a couple things from +them before, and my "cornholio sense" is not tingling (a power I got from +being bitten by a radioactive asshole), so I don't think they were jerks when +I used them last time. + -- fred t. hamster +~ + External circumstances are not what draw us into suffering. Suffering is +caused and permitted by an untamed mind. The appearance of self-defeating +emotions in our minds leads us to faulty actions. The naturally pure mind is +covered over by these emotions and troubling conceptions. The force of their +deceit pushes us into faulty actions, which leads inevitably to suffering. + We need, with great awareness and care, to extinguish these problematic +attitudes, the way gathering clouds dissolve back into the sphere of the sky. +When our self-defeating attitudes, emotions, and conceptions cease, so will +the harmful actions arising from them. + As the great Tibetan yogi Milarepa says, "When arising, arising within space +itself; when dissolving, dissolving back into space." We need to become +familiar with the state of our own minds to understand how to dissolve ill- +founded ideas and impulses back into the deeper sphere of reality. The sky +was there before the clouds gathered, and it will be after they have gone. It +is also present when the clouds seem to cover every inch of the sky we can +see.(p.22) + -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, "How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving + Relationships", translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins +~ + Usually the reason that we can't experience transcendent bliss is because +our consciousness is actually chained by the illusion called "I." It is +chained because this concept literally ties our consciousness to the prison of +duality, the prison of concepts and ideas. What most people experience is +that their consciousness is chained by that illusion. + But now and then there are people who find the so-called spiritual path. +This is another quite strange and sneaky way that ego can actually keep +binding our consciousness once again to another form of prison, the prison of +duality, the prison of concepts and ideas. Transcendent bliss comes from +breaking every chain. + Breaking all chains, losing every concept, every idea, sounds very +frightening to the ego's mind. But actually when we let go of every concept, +we land on this infinite ground of eternal bliss, and that bliss is not some +kind of religious or mystical experience, some altered state of consciousness. +That bliss is not the result of doing something to our consciousness, rather +it is the pure state of our consciousness.(p.74) + -- Anam Thubten, "The Magic of Awareness", edited by Sharon Roe, published + by Snow Lion Publications +~ + The all-base consciousness* works like a savings bank. Continuously money +is paid into the bank and continuously it is taken out again. In the same way +karmic imprints are absorbed by the all-base, are stored there, and can +therefore be brought forth again. + Learning, for example, occurs through the mind consciousness. The mind +consciousness itself vanishes. Nevertheless, on the next day we have a memory +of what we learned. At this time of remembrance, the mind consciousness of +what we learned is no longer actually present, since it has ceased to exist. +Yet, still we did not forget what we learned previously. What we learned was +seized by the all-base in the form of karmic imprints, and stored. Due to the +'all-base of complete ripening' these imprints can be re-awakened, so that the +mind consciousness perceives them afresh. This is why we learn things. It is +similar with strong mental afflictions. + ...The example of the savings bank is particularly effective, especially in +the context of karmic actions. Whoever puts money into the bank can get it +out again later, often including interest!(p.37) + +* The all-base consciousness is the general basis for the whole mind, all +aspects of the mind. + + -- Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, "Everyday Consciousness and Primordial + Awareness", translated and edited by Susanne Schefczyk, published by + Snow Lion Publications +~ + Q: How can Dzogchen help us in our daily jobs and careers? + + HHDL: In the first place, it is quite difficult to have an experience of +Dzogchen. But once you do have that experience, it can be extremely +beneficial in dealing with your day to day life, your job, and your career. +This is because that kind of experience will give you the ability to prevent +yourself from being overwhelmed by circumstances, good or bad. You will not +fall into extreme states of mind: you will not get over-excited or depressed. +Your attitude toward circumstances and events will be as if you were someone +observing the mind, without being drawn away by circumstances. + For example, when you see a reflection of a form in a mirror, the reflection +appears within the mirror but it is not projected from within. In the same +way, when you confront the situations of life, or deal with others, your +attitude too will be mirror-like. + Also, when a reflection appears in the mirror, the mirror does not have to +go after the object that is reflected: it simply reflects, spontaneously, on +the surface. The same with you: since there is no attachment or agitation at +having these 'reflections' in your mind, you will feel tremendous ease and +relief. You are not preoccupied by what arises in the mind, nor does it cause +you any distress. You are free from conceptuality or any form of +objectifying. And so it really does help you, in allowing you to be free from +being caught up in the play of emotions like hatred, attachment, and the like. +(p.162) + -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, "Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great + Perfection", translated by Thupten Jinpa and Richard Barron, foreword by + Sogyal Rinpoche, edited by Patrick Gaffney, published by Snow Lion Pub. +~ + The quality of one's rebirth in the next life is determined by the quality +of one's mental activity in this life. Generally speaking, we have no power +to choose how we are born; it is dependent on karmic forces. However, the +period near the time of death is very influential in terms of activating one +from among the many karmas that a person has already accumulated, and, +therefore, if one makes particular effort at generating a virtuous attitude at +that time, there is an opportunity to strengthen and activate a virtuous +karma. Moreover, when one has developed high realization and has gained +control over how one will be reborn, it is possible to take what is called +"reincarnation" rather than mere rebirth.(p.42) + -- H.H. the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso, "The Dalai Lama at Harvard: + Lectures on the Buddhist Path to Peace", translated and edited by Jeffrey + Hopkins, published by Snow Lion Publications