From: Chris Koeritz Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:47:42 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1193 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=374c84f9dcb27850b431eb5af009d28dcc6f340b;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index e087ddc1..7853e5fa 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38305,3 +38305,20 @@ is a race against time, and you should never put off dharma practice until next year, next month, or tomorrow, because the future may never happen. -- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, from "Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So- Called Preliminary Practices" +~ + What we want to eliminate is grasping that is grounded upon falsification of +the object, distortions that arise as afflictions grasp at the apparent +substantial existence of an object. Some texts say that mental states such as +compassion and faith are, by their very nature, virtuous and thus cannot at +the same time be afflicted mental states. Yet there are other texts that +refer to “afflicted compassion” or “afflicted faith.” For those of us +who have not realized emptiness, when we generate strong devotion toward the +Buddha perhaps there is within that faith, within that devotion, an element of +grasping at the Buddha as substantially real. This makes it an instance of +so-called “afflicted devotion.” + Still, it is important to distinguish grasping rooted in falsification and +distortion from the attachment, focus, or holding that we associate with +compassion. In our immediate experience, these two forms of grasping may seem +the same, but in terms of the overall mental environment they are quite +different. Compassion is fact-based, while distorted grasping is not. + -- H.H. the Dalai Lama