From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 13:03:17 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: new fortune.
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new fortune.
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diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat
index 3d6c8498..5a1c5bb3 100644
--- a/infobase/fortunes.dat
+++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat
@@ -40201,3 +40201,25 @@ the chains—the afflictive emotions—of attachment to pleasure that tightly
 bind the worldly in the prison of samsara.
   -- Nagarjuna, from "Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend with Commentary by
      Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche", published by Shambhala Publications.
+~
+  The wish to understand the true nature of mind by relying on technology is
+due to the fault of not having awakened one’s Buddha nature, and because of
+that, the absolute and relative nature of one’s uncompounded mind just as it
+is cannot be recognized even slightly, which is the reason for relying only on
+the compounded gross material substance of technology.  While examining the
+qualities of one’s own and others’ practice by bringing together a machine
+and the one who uses the machine, if any special conception arises about its
+being good, bad, high, or low, it will only be a fragmented, deluded
+interdependent conception that momentarily appears, and not nonconceptual
+enlightened body and wisdom, which are inconceivable.  It will just be like
+children blowing bubbles in the air and trying to catch these rainbow-colored
+bubbles with their hands.  As Santideva says about the dream of a barren
+woman:
+  For example, a barren woman dreams her son is dead.  When she awakens, she
+thinks that she has no son.  That conception of not having a son comes from
+the conception of having a son.  So, both of these conceptions are obstacles
+and also delusion.
+  -- Thinley Norbu, from "The Sole Panacea: A Brief Commentary on the Seven-
+     Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche That Cures the Suffering of the Sickness of
+     Karma and Defilement", published by Shambhala Publications.
+