X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=database%2Ffortunes.dat;h=ca2d8102f3efb7fa686803e81ee67a97975c0882;hb=36a9a32fa6f9328a5c9ad766f67e764fbd359e2d;hp=69a4917127c402cba33f6478bab2f4b6c9486ec1;hpb=723977423ba54bdd5b75bc2c25254fbaf8dd4e24;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 69a49171..ca2d8102 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38916,6 +38916,30 @@ harm to others. As it says in the sutras: Abandon evildoing; Practice virtue well; Subdue your mind: - This is the Buddha’s teaching. + This is the Buddha's teaching. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "For the Benefit of All Beings" +~ +In the avadhuti, the main path of enlightenment, +Prana and mind, bliss and warmth, are united, +Becoming unconditioned great bliss. +The wisdom of unobscured insight dawns. + +"This is unsurpassable," the guru has said. +The darkness of ignorance is purified in space. +One is free from the two obscurations of grasping and fixation. +Therefore bliss and luminosity dawn in simplicity. + +This appearance of collective coincidence +Is a reflection without self-nature. +All appearances are realized like that, +And just like appearances in a dream, +All dharmas arise as illusions... + +When thoughts arise, rest naturally. +When dreaming, be mindful without corrupting it. +When in the pardo, don’t control, but be aware. +When there is fruition, let it arise without obscuration. + + -- from "The Life of Marpa the Translator" translated by Chögyam Trungpa + and the Nalanda Translation Committee.