From: Chris Koeritz Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:04:06 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1282 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=20d7020a6aa477b3b0b6d1b7465fe65803bc4ccb;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 872d568c..7b6eb6a6 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38023,3 +38023,19 @@ is no way to accomplish this except by removing the obstructions to omniscience, and one who has overcome, utterly and forever, the obstructions to omniscience is a Buddha. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama +~ + In meditation, imagine that in front of you are three persons—an enemy, a +friend, and a neutral person. At that time, in our minds we have (1) a sense +of closeness for one of them, thinking, “This is my friend”; (2) a sense +of dislike even when imagining the enemy; and (3) a sense of ignoring the +neutral person. Now, we have to think about the reasons why we generate these +feelings—the reasons being that temporarily one of them helped us whereas +the other temporarily harmed us, and the third did neither. However, when we +think in terms of the long course of beginningless rebirth, none of us could +decide that someone who has helped or harmed us in this life has been doing so +for all lifetimes. + When you contemplate this way, eventually you arrive at a point where a +strong generation of desire or hatred appears to you to be just senseless. +Gradually, such a bias weakens, and you decide that one-sided classification +of persons as friends and enemies has been a mistake. + -- H.H. the Dalai Lama