From: Chris Koeritz Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:21:56 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1199 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3226828d2397916ad6ed04b575e0e6ef96ab9a26;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index a6fb92f0..d56a213e 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38278,3 +38278,16 @@ is our buddha-nature. -- Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, from "Vivid Awareness" in "The Best Buddhist Writing 2012", edited by Melvin McLeod and the editors of the Shambhala Sun, page 200. +~ + If your engagement with others is tainted by strong attachment, craving, +aversion, anger, and so forth, then that form of grasping is undesirable. But +on the other hand, when you are interacting with other living beings and +become aware of their needs or suffering or pain, then you need to fully +engage with that and be compassionate. So there can be positive attachment in +this sense of active engagement. + Buddhist masters have long used the term attachment to describe the quality +of compassion for others. For example, a verse from Haribhadra’s Clear +Meaning Commentary refers to compassion that is attached to other living +beings. And as we have seen, Nagarjuna teaches that attachment for other +living beings will arise spontaneously in the person who realizes emptiness. + -- H.H. the Dalai Lama