X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=infobase%2Ffortunes.dat;h=093e2b5d185762595f8dd8294b5e03a817cb965c;hb=75e1277b4fbbb3ed732b996e91be24854b81ce83;hp=65716a97b81a7d8b38c1ef150f2b487f77d56cfb;hpb=46db3e069f6346301f8d55a1d155a4904f18ec1e;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 65716a97..093e2b5d 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -40674,3 +40674,120 @@ its prevalence. -- Khamtrul Rinpoche III, from "The Royal Seal of Mahamudra, Volume One: A Guidebook for the Realization of Coemergence", published by Shambhala Publications +~ +As your true view, look into the changeless, empty cognizance. +As your true meditation, let your mind nature be as it is. +As your true conduct, let the delusion of dualistic fixation collapse. +As your true fruition, don’t seek the result that is spontaneously present. + -- from "The Life of Longchenpa: The Omniscient Dharma King of the Vast + Expanse", by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart, published by Shambhala Publications +~ +If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered +as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, +that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers +against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious +persecution. + -- George Washington, letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia (1789) +~ +Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, +he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear. + -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr (1787) +~ +In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof +is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by +precept and example inculcated on mankind. + -- Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists (1771) +~ +Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the +strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Take away the +law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity. + -- Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man (1791) +~ +Congress has no power to make any religious establishments. + -- Roger Sherman, Congress (1789) +~ +The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. + -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758) +~ +I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people +build a wall of separation between Church & State. + -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Danbury Baptists (1802) +~ +To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason is like administering +medicine to the dead. + -- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. V (1776) +~ +Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than +our opinions in physics or geometry. + -- Thomas Jefferson, A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom (1779) +~ +Christian establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which +facilitate the execution of mischievous projects. + -- James Madison, letter to William Bradford, Jr. (1774) +~ +There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of +science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of +public happiness. + -- George Washington, address to Congress (1790) +~ +During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity +been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride +and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, +superstition, bigotry and persecution. + -- James Madison, General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1785) +~ +Being civil often has an element of acting. However, in the hinayana, you are +behaving rather than acting. Acting is trying to manifest yourself for the +sake of display, whereas behaving is how you feel. Acting is the way you +dance, and behaving is the way you sneeze or hiccup. You know if you are +being genuine. You are the first person who knows. When you are acting, you +are concerned with other people’s possible reactions; but when you are +behaving, you are just behaving. It’s like sitting on the toilet seat and +doing your duty: nobody is watching. It’s your private concern, so there is +a quality of genuineness. In the hinayana, you behave decently because the +dharma is actually a part of you. That is the meaning of taming yourself... +Becoming a dharmic person means that in your everyday life from morning to +morning, around the clock, you are not trying to kid anybody. + -- Chögyam Trungpa, from "The Path of Individual Liberation: Volume One of + The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma", published by Shambhala + Publications +~ +Today’s world requires us to accept the oneness of humanity. In the past, +isolated communities could afford to think of one another as fundamentally +separate. Some could even exist in total isolation. But nowadays, whatever +happens in one region eventually affects many other areas. Within the context +of our inter-dependence, self-interest clearly lies in considering the +interest of others. + -- H.H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, "The Pocket Dalai Lama", published by + Shambhala Publications +~ + Compassion is an internal attitude that may manifest in our behavior. +However, compassion is not the behavior itself, for one behavior can be done +with different motivations. For example, we may take care of a sick relative +because we have genuine affection for him. Conversely, we may care for him +because we want to inherit his estate. The action is the same, but the +motivations differ. The first motivation is prompted by genuine compassion, +the second by self-concern. + Acting with compassion entails being creative and knowing that one +behavior is not suitable for all occasions. In some circumstances, we may be +compassionate by sharing our possessions; while in others, we may show it by +saying, “no.” In this way, compassion must be combined with good judgment to +be effective. + -- Russell Kolts and Thubten Chodron, "An Open-Hearted Life", published by + Shambhala Publications +~ +Since the very beginning, the mind streams of all sentient beings possess the +way of being of the inseparability of being lucid and being empty in an +intrinsic manner. No matter how it may be obscured by adventitious stains, in +terms of its nature, it is never tainted by stains, while the stains exist in +the manner of being separable from it. This mind that is the inseparability +of being lucid and being empty has the nature of being permanent and being +free from change, decrease, and increase. It is ever undeceiving, changeless, +and genuinely stable. Throughout all three phases of ground, path, and +fruition, it is this nature of the mind that is certain to be solely the +object of the genuine meditative equipoise within the qualities that are the +nature of phenomena. This is what needs to be manifested through the practice +of superior insight. + -- from "When the Clouds Part: The Uttaratantra and Its Meditative Tradition + as a Bridge between Sutra and Tantra", translated by Karl Brunnholzl, + published by Shambhala Publications