X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=database%2Ffortunes.dat;h=d87b51c1f9236bd4d40a0b1865a60be642673fcb;hb=675cd8a76e7c453f7f8470ab78ea94a90990eec9;hp=7b5ee2a93ff0c8ad6df3a12a351766c7f6b5a201;hpb=f23a76d9b09251a51f44f3ab4a795d59ed85f315;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 7b5ee2a9..d87b51c1 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -9646,7 +9646,7 @@ Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. -- Billy Crystal ~ I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said -to me was, 'You'll never find anyone like me again!' +to me was, "You'll never find anyone like me again!" I'm thinking, "I should hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you?" -- Larry Miller @@ -38723,12 +38723,12 @@ set forth in accordance with temporary needs. You do not have to seek out loneliness--it is always there. Egolessness is a concept, a philosophy, but loneliness is a reality that you experience. A feeling of loneliness is part of the journey. As for me, I feel that way -constantly, and I think it’s a very healthy feeling, a very real feeling. +constantly, and I think it's a very healthy feeling, a very real feeling. When you sense that you are not you anymore and that nothing can replace that state, you begin to make discoveries. You discover devotion, and you discover a quality of richness and artistic expression that is very special. Being you, but not being you, is very resourceful. You become a complete mountain -man: you know how to make fire and cook food. But it doesn’t mean anything. +man: you know how to make fire and cook food. But it doesn't mean anything. You are still nobody. That is the inspiration. -- Chögyam Trungpa, "The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume One: The Individual Path of Liberation" @@ -38805,7 +38805,7 @@ being. Your own mind are the unique primary reality. They cannot be conceptualized according to the cause and effect systems of thought. - Investigate your mind’s real nature + Investigate your mind's real nature So that your pure and total presence will actually shine forth. @@ -38849,10 +38849,10 @@ The great yogi Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol replies to a Losar Day request from his disciple Depa Wangpo on what to adopt and what to reject regarding attitude and conduct... - Don’t harm your friends and neighbors; help them. - Don’t be stingy; use your wealth for offerings and charity. - Don’t let your body be idle; do prostrations and circumambulations. - Don’t let your mouth be idle; recite the mani mantra. + Don't harm your friends and neighbors; help them. + Don't be stingy; use your wealth for offerings and charity. + Don't let your body be idle; do prostrations and circumambulations. + Don't let your mouth be idle; recite the mani mantra. Always have pure thoughts towards others. In brief, keeping Death in mind, practice the sacred Dharma. @@ -38865,4 +38865,170 @@ attitude and conduct... Keep them in mind! -- Shabkar Natshok Rangdrol, in "The Life of Shabkar" +~ +On the very night of Dodrupchen's death, his spiritual testament was +received by his principal disciple, Do Khyentse. Dodrupchen appeared in the +sky in a radiant light body and an attire of lights. He was floating on a +carpet of light, which was held up by four dakinis. In a very enchanting +voice he sang the verses of his testament, which include the following lines: + + I am going into the expanse of the Wisdom of the Ultimate Sphere, + Which is the state that transcends thoughts and expressions. + I am going into the state of Mirrorlike Wisdom, + Which is the ceaseless clear glow, fresh and open. + I am going into the expanse of the Wisdom of Evenness, + In which all the thoughts of grasping and grasper have vanished into the + ultimate sphere. + I am going into the Wisdom of Discriminative Awareness, + Which is the clarity, the dawn of six kinds of foreknowledge. + I am going into the state of the Wisdom of Accomplishment, + Which emanates various manifestations in accordance with [the needs of] + trainable beings. + + Son, please stay healthy. + Now you have won over the obstructions of your life. + Until all the phenomenal existents are liberated as the signs and + teachings [of Dharma], + [You should be] aware of samsara and nirvana as dreams and illusions. + Dedicate yourself to the meditation where there is no reference point. + This is the empowerment of total entrustment and aspiration. + This is the supreme empowerment of empowerments. + + -- from "Masters of Meditation and Miracles", by Tulku Thondup. +~ + The view of interdependence makes for a great openness of mind. In general, +instead of realizing that what we experience arises from a complicated network +of causes, we tend to attribute happiness or sadness, for example, to single, +individual sources. But if this were so, as soon as we came into contact with +what we consider to be good, we would be automatically happy, and conversely, +in the case of bad things, invariably sad. The causes of joy and sorrow would +be easy to identify and target. It would all be very simple, and there would +be good reason for our anger and attachment. When, on the other hand, we +consider that everything we experience results from a complex interplay of +causes and conditions, we find that there is no single thing to desire or +resent, and it is more difficult for the afflictions of attachment or anger to +arise. In this way, the view of interdependence makes our minds more relaxed +and open. + By training our minds and getting used to this view, we change our way of +seeing things, and as a result we gradually change our behavior and do less +harm to others. As it says in the sutras: + + Abandon evildoing; + Practice virtue well; + Subdue your mind: + 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. +~ +The Four Seals in Buddhism are: + + All products are impermanent. + (or all compounded phenomena are impermanent?) + ('du byed thams cad mi rtag pa) + + All contaminated objects are miserable. + (zag bcas thams cad sdug bsngal ba) + + All phenomena are selfless. + (chos thams cad bdag med pa) + + Nirvana is peace. + (mya ngan las 'das ba zhi ba) + + --from "Meditation on Emptiness" (London: Wisdom, 1983), by Jeffrey Hopkins +~ + When you pass away, nothing will do you any good except for the pure Dharma. +You will not simply disappear when you die. Rather, what happens next will be +dictated by your previous actions. + For these reasons, you should exert yourself by whatever means necessary to +free yourself from samsara, which is nothing but a vast ocean of suffering! +Practice your teacher's guidance concerning what to do and what to give up +to the letter, without falling under the influence of immature friends or bad +influences. To the best of your ability, incorporate this genuine teaching on +the certainty of death into each and every day. + Keeping all this in mind, arouse faith in the Three Jewels so that you will +be able to practice in this manner, thinking to yourself, "Think of me, +Three Jewels!" At the same time, be sure to generate an intense sense of +renunciation and subdue your mind stream. + -- from "Entrance to the Great Perfection: A Guide to the Dzogchen + Preliminary Practices", edited and translated by Cortland Dahl +~ +I would like to mention my visit to Lourdes as a pilgrim. There, in front of +the cave, I experienced something very special. I felt a spiritual vibration, +a kind of spiritual presence there. And then, in front of the image of the +Virgin Mary, I prayed. I expressed my admiration for this holy place that has +long been a source of inspiration and strength, that has provided spiritual +solace, comfort and healing to millions of people. And I prayed that this may +continue for a long time to come. My prayer there was not directed to any +clearly defined object, like Buddha or Jesus Christ or a bodhisattva, but was +simply directed to all great beings who have infinite compassion towards all +sentient beings. + -- H.H. the Dalai Lama +~ +The Buddhist teaching is superior in four ways: view, meditation, behavior, +and fruit. + +1. The "four seals" that distinguish the [Buddhist] view are as follows: all +composed phenomena are impermanent, all contaminated things are miserable, all +phenomena are selfless, and nirvana is peace. + +2. Buddhist meditation serves as an antidote to all cyclic existence within +the three realms. + +3. Buddhist behavior is free from the two extremes, having abandoned both the +extreme of overindulgence of desire, which is a case of being desirous and +wanting good and great quantities of food and clothing, and the extreme of +being too tired and worn out in body and mind. + +4. The fruits are the true cessations, which are abandonments such that the +obstruction that is removed does not arise again [and which comes about] +through analyzing individually the nonexistence of the referent object of the +conception of self. + +These four [view, meditation, behavior, and fruit] are the distinguishing +features of Buddhist doctrine. + -- Jamyang Shayba, from "Buddhist Philosophy: Losang Gonchok's Short + Commentary to Jamyang Shayba's Root Text on Tenets", by Daniel Cozort + and Craig Preston, page 88. +~ +When you are busy and preoccupied, you feel hassled by your own existence. +You are so busy that you think that you do not have any time to spare for your +practice. Such torment and busyness seem to be monumental or historic, but +that is not the case. As far as we are concerned, that kind of torment is +absolutely ordinary. As you begin to work on that, you realize that the +inconvenience, discomfort, and anguish that you experience is no more than +anybody else experiences. So your experience is no longer regarded as +monumental—no more than if you step on a cat's tail, and the cat cries +out, "Wooaaaoow!" However, it is still a problematic situation. Therefore +you need to practice the paramita of discipline, which overcomes that type of +preoccupation altogether. You begin to realize that preoccupations are +garbage; they are worth flushing out so that something real could come up. +Then paramita activity begins to make sense, and you begin to act in a more +genuine way. + -- Chögyam Trungpa, from "The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma. + Volume Two: The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion"