X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=database%2Ffortunes.dat;h=71bd822798b71ea4d9af3332b387927375d064d4;hb=a6d593934f34d35642cdc8a79421404560f89fe1;hp=5b2444ed0858e3748320b159131cd1bc553c8999;hpb=04920d712c28a646472fdbfdd3af477473a6638c;p=feisty_meow.git

diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat
index 5b2444ed..71bd8227 100644
--- a/database/fortunes.dat
+++ b/database/fortunes.dat
@@ -37429,3 +37429,41 @@ 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