X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=infobase%2Ffortunes.dat;h=26b283e4902221afdba49e4370e1714d4a7dc972;hb=85b9f44b4df76909e7c95c6325ba403d1eec5f05;hp=b7e5967fb063d8e2af14e78faa3a10458c574c2a;hpb=507e77f5592c9bc5f3653540ae970c0554ebfd25;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index b7e5967f..26b283e4 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -28186,7 +28186,7 @@ But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. -- Shakyamuni Buddha ~ -You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by it. +You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. -- Shakyamuni Buddha ~ Buddhists take a vow of morality in the context of first taking refuge--in @@ -41925,4 +41925,183 @@ would be looked into. It was from then that the levies on the people for Norbulinka building projects stopped. -- Ven. Lobsang Gyatso, translated by Ven. Dr. Gareth Sparham, "Memoirs of a Tibetan Lama", published by Shambhala Publications +~ +The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor +to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and +earnestly. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on +the present moment. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +You only lose what you cling to. -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Pain is certain, suffering is optional. -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it +at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to +die. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Most problems, if you give them enough time and space, will eventually wear +themselves out + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved +worrying will do you no good. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates +people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant +relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be +filled with joy. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on +what you think. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment. -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +People with opinions just go around bothering one another. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Greater in battle +than the man who would conquer +a thousand-thousand men, +is he who would conquer +just one-- +himself. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self. -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +With our thoughts we make the world. -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they +do you if you do not act on upon them? + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not +considered a good man because he is a good talker. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and +soul to it + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our +thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with an evil +thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that +draws the wagon... If a man speaks or acts with a good thought, happiness +follows him like a shadow that never leaves him. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +The mind is everything. What you think you become. -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +The fool who knows he is a fool is that much wiser. -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create +distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Three things can not hide for long: the Moon, the Sun, and the Truth. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe +in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe +in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do +not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. +Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many +generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything +agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, +then accept it and live up to it. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would +change. + -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +brain fully charged +(at lockn 2016...) + +It really seemed like every band built on the one just prior to it, so that as +each day moved on, the acts just generated more and more energy and awesome +music, storing it up in a celestial battery. the peak of it all for me was +the phish show on the last night, which was so high energy and saturated with +fun and healthy vibes that I felt like "i never need to feel fear again". +that feeling lasted for days after the festival was over. hopefully memory of +that thought never fades. +~ + Don’t become easily discouraged. If you never try to go beyond that +stage of initial discouragement because there are thoughts arising in your +meditation, you are never going to have the true experiences of meditation. +You need to go beyond that initial stage. You need to keep trying. If you +keep making that effort to go beyond that initial discouragement, you will +arrive at the experience of not getting caught up in your thoughts and mental +events. + Sometimes you may even observe an increase in the frequency of thoughts. +When that happens, don’t get discouraged. My enlightened master Jigme +Phuntsok Rinpoche says: + "One sign that your meditation is beginning to be effective is that both +subtle thoughts and obvious thoughts become more noticeable than before. This +is not a bad sign; it’s a good sign. When water rushes in a strong river +current, you don’t see the fish or rocks beneath the rapids. But when the +current slows and the water becomes clear, then you can see the fish, the +rocks, and everything below the surface distinctly. Similarly, if you never +pay attention to your mind, and your thoughts and emotions are uncontrolled, +you don’t even know how many thoughts go by. But when your mind becomes +more stable and calm, you begin to see your thoughts more clearly. Don’t be +discouraged. Take heart at this sign. Don’t hold yourself too loosely or +too tightly. Maintain your meditation in the right way without concern and +gradually your meditation experience will increase and stabilize." + Remember: Do not follow the past. Do not anticipate the future. Remain +in the present moment. Leave your mind alone. Those four simple, +straightforward instructions give us a chance to go beyond our mental events +and, eventually, to experience the natural state of mind. + -- Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche, in "Our Pristine Mind", published by Shambhala + Publications +~ + Knowing full well that his aim is to achieve enlightenment, Sujata adopts +a parallel program to help sustain him. Symbolically feeding Gautama with +each offering to the priests, she utters the dedication prayer, + May the Bodhisattva take my food and thereby truly attain perfect and +completely unexcelled awakening! + After six years of this, the gods notify her that Gautama has ceased his +austerities and urge her to take further action. Due to her abundant good +karma in past lives, she is preordained to serve him. Sujata sets to work +preparing the rice milk offering in the fashion of the one thousand cows +milked to feed the five hundred and so forth. In observing miracles around +the cooking pot, she prays that they foretell the Bodhisattva’s imminent +supreme awakening. She brings the rice porridge in a golden bowl to Gautama +where he is sitting along the river and offers it to him after reverentially +making prostrations. According to this story, the Bodhisattva regains his +former strength and splendor upon consuming Sujata’s excellent food. In +this version, it is his first meal after the six years of austerities and has +instantly restored him to wholeness. After bathing and meditating at the +river, Gautama proceeds to the tree of enlightenment. All these events have +taken place within the span of one day. + -- Wendy Garling, in "Stars at Dawn", published by Shambhala Publications