From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 17:22:26 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~966 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1d462043ccf703fae0bbef6c324966746a0e6ad7;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 9cc935b3..bd6bc6fb 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -39378,3 +39378,24 @@ drawn into the afflictive emotions of desire and hatred as well as all the problems these bring. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight", Shambhala Publications +~ + The essence of mind is somewhat difficult to explain, so we look at it from +the negative point of view, that is, what mind is not. First of all, we see +that it is not something which arises or ceases or abides. It is free of +these three things. From beginningless time, there is no arising, no +cessation and no abiding in terms of staying in one place, not moving, or not +changing. It is completely free of all three of these. + It is also free of being a thing or a substance composed of particles. The +essential entity, or substance, of mind is not something that can be defiled +or stained by grasping at subject and object. It is completely free of the +stains from those activities. + Further, when we look at the essential substance of mind, we find that no +matter how much we search for it, no matter how much we analyze it, there is +no thing there to be found. There is no entity that we can come up with by +searching, evaluating, and analyzing. No matter how much we seek for its +essential substance, we cannot find it. The searcher, the one who does the +search for essential substance of mind, cannot find it. Therefore it is said +that the essential substance of mind itself is emptiness. + -- Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, "The Practice of Mahamudra", published + by Shambhala Publications +