From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:43:10 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1224 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=625428deeff1532552592380f05d426bc2f1d018;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 17474052..ad7a71db 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38196,3 +38196,23 @@ place you are inviting the hosts of buddhas and bodhisattvas who are the most supreme merit field, and that you will subsequently engage in a path that will enable you to purge your mind of the stains and delusions. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama +~ + From the point of view of one who seeks enlightenment, it is far better to +be a human being than to be born even in the heavens of the gods, where there +is nectar to live on and all wishes are granted by the wish-fulfilling tree; +where there is neither fatigue nor difficulty, neither sickness nor old age. +It is as humans, possessed of the eight freedoms and the ten endowments, and +not as gods, that every one of the thousand Buddhas of this age has attained, +or will attain, enlightenment. This human existence, moreover, is not to be +achieved by force or mere chance; it is the result of positive actions. And +because it is rare for beings to accomplish positive actions, a precious human +existence is indeed difficult to obtain. + Nevertheless, we have now managed to be born into such a state; we have +encountered the Buddadharma, have entered the path and are now receiving +teachings. But if we are unable to practise them, simply listening to the +teachings will not in itself liberate us from samsara, and will be of no help +to us when we are confronted by the hardships of birth, disease, old age and +death. If we do not follow the doctor’s prescription when we are sick, then +even if the doctor sits constantly by our side, the pain will not go away. + -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, from "Enlightened Courage: An Explanation of the + Seven-Point Mind Training", translated by Padmakara Translation Group.