From: Chris Koeritz Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:20:32 +0000 (-0500) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1628 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2b5ff450c36844ca7775ac3472726b0b49c959c4;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index f1b609d0..71bd8227 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -37448,3 +37448,22 @@ is also present when the clouds seem to cover every inch of the sky we can see.(p.22) -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, "How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships", translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins +~ + Usually the reason that we can't experience transcendent bliss is because +our consciousness is actually chained by the illusion called "I." It is +chained because this concept literally ties our consciousness to the prison of +duality, the prison of concepts and ideas. What most people experience is +that their consciousness is chained by that illusion. + But now and then there are people who find the so-called spiritual path. +This is another quite strange and sneaky way that ego can actually keep +binding our consciousness once again to another form of prison, the prison of +duality, the prison of concepts and ideas. Transcendent bliss comes from +breaking every chain. + Breaking all chains, losing every concept, every idea, sounds very +frightening to the ego's mind. But actually when we let go of every concept, +we land on this infinite ground of eternal bliss, and that bliss is not some +kind of religious or mystical experience, some altered state of consciousness. +That bliss is not the result of doing something to our consciousness, rather +it is the pure state of our consciousness.(p.74) + -- Anam Thubten, "The Magic of Awareness", edited by Sharon Roe, published + by Snow Lion Publications