From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:49:13 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1264 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=214e4d129532c296544e1f22582cf90b6ce98dd4;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 9ba033d9..a57d784a 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38119,3 +38119,23 @@ parasamgate bodhi svaha. Tadyatha means It is thus; gate gate means go, go; paragate means go beyond and transcend; parasamgate means go utterly beyond, go thoroughly beyond; and bodhi svaha means firmly rooted in enlightenment. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama +~ +ENDURING SUCCESS + It is often seen that human beings can endure problems quite well, but +cannot endure success. When we are successful and have everything we desire, +it can easily go to our heads. There is a great danger of losing our common +sense and becoming careless and arrogant. As it is said, "Nothing corrupts a +person more than power." Very powerful people sometimes become so proud that +they no longer care about their actions or about the effect they have on +others. Losing any sense of right and wrong, they create severe problems for +themselves and everyone else. + Even if we have all the success we could dream of—fame, wealth, and so +on—we must understand that these things have no real substance. Attachment +does not come from having things, but from the way our mind reacts to them. +It is fine to participate in good circumstances, provided we can see that they +have no real essence. They may come and they may go. When seeing this, we +will not become so attached. Even if we lose our wealth we will not be badly +affected, and while it is there we will enjoy it without being senseless and +arrogant. + -- Ringu Tulku, from "Daring Steps: Traversing the Path of the Buddha", + edited and translated by Rosemarie Fuchs, page 92.