From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 19:05:15 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~985 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=00662281fbfcd0091ff292928e08c1bc77af4dc9;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 84afb252..d326b9ee 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -39233,3 +39233,22 @@ of the Great Fifth later in this chapter, he “was continually absorbed in the wisdom dance that experiences all appearances as pure vision.” -- Glenn H. Mullin, from "From the Heart of Chenrezig: The Dalai Lamas on Tantra" +~ +Wishing others to be happy doesn’t mean we give them everything they want, +because sometimes what they want can be harmful. Wishing them to be happy +entails wanting them to be free from pain and loneliness. Wouldn’t it be +wonderful if they were free from these and all other miseries? In order to +love others, we have to be able to overcome our anger and hatred toward them. +We have to be able to forgive them for the wrongs they’ve done. To do that, +we have to get “me” out of the way and see that when people create harm, +it is a reflection of their own pain, confusion, and misery. We just happened +to walk across their path. We may even have done something to antagonize +them, either deliberately or accidentally, but the reason that they got so +upset is because of what is going on inside of them. We might also look at +how we made ourselves into a target or accidentally became a target onto which +they projected their confusion. Maybe we weren’t very considerate of them. +Maybe we have certain bad habits of which we’re not aware and to which +they’re reacting. + -- Thubten Chodron, "How to Free Your Mind: The Practice of Tara the + Liberator" +