X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=infobase%2Ffortunes.dat;h=093e2b5d185762595f8dd8294b5e03a817cb965c;hb=75e1277b4fbbb3ed732b996e91be24854b81ce83;hp=c074a6a079f82355625ebd9af7b2c19057de2821;hpb=f4f11414fd3fe3467a7df79b5db18cf79a7dd2b4;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index c074a6a0..093e2b5d 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -40775,4 +40775,19 @@ 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