X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=database%2Ffortunes.dat;h=71bd822798b71ea4d9af3332b387927375d064d4;hb=95c4645b806f6528e0200aceb8028d8b5a995b56;hp=cf0cf235728dc2d8e4261d371447f6829de48ce4;hpb=b700462db637db207ecb338743f49282a7d01a92;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index cf0cf235..71bd8227 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -37360,3 +37360,110 @@ limitless compassion, limitless loving-kindness, and limitless wisdom. -- Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, "The Buddhist Path: A Practical Guide from the Nyingma Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism", published by Snow Lion Publications +~ + In order for the wisdom of special insight to remove impediments to proper +understanding, and to remove faulty mental states at their very roots, we need +concentrated meditation, a state of complete single-mindedness in which all +internal distractions have been removed. + Single-minded meditation involves removing subtle internal distractions such +as the mind's being either too relaxed or too tight. To do so we must first +stop external distractions through training in the morality of maintaining +mindfulness and conscientiousness with regard to physical and verbal +activities--being constantly aware of what you are doing with your body and +your speech. Without overcoming these obvious distractions, it is impossible +to overcome subtler internal distractions. Since it is through sustaining +mindfulness that you achieve a calm abiding of the mind, the practice of +morality must precede the practice of concentrated meditation.(p.23) + -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, "How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life", + translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins +~ + Buddha means one who is fully enlightened. In other words, a buddha has +fully awakened from the sleep of delusion. He is free from all obscurations, +both gross and subtle, and has revealed the two intrinsic wisdom awarenesses. +Buddhahood is the spontaneously established, uncompounded nature that does not +depend on any other conditions. A buddha has perfect wisdom, has perfectly +accomplished the nature of compassion, and has every ability to manifest all +excellent activities. + There are many buddhas in the past, present, and future. In fact, there are +as many buddhas as there are particles of dust. Basically, the term buddha +refers to anyone whose mind is fully awakened and who is free from all +suffering and its causes. When we point to Buddha Shakyamuni as a buddha, he +is an example of this. A buddha has four forms, all of which emanate from the +dharmakaya: + 1. Nirmanakaya is a buddha who has emanated in a physical form. A +nirmanakaya can emanate anywhere as anything animate or inanimate--as a human +being, an animal, or even a bridge, if necessary... + 2. Sambhogakaya is the expression of the complete, perfect manifestation +of the Buddha's excellent, infinite qualities, called the enjoyment body-- +splendid and glorious. All the buddhas appear and manifest in the limitless +buddha fields in this form... + 3. Dharmakaya is one's own perfection, fully free from all delusion and +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