From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 23:24:53 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune X-Git-Tag: 2.140.134~20^2~3 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6857d49e470ded66e2ac1b8687cab499a5d1a30f;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune --- diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index ab0d4fd8..15e635f3 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -43885,3 +43885,18 @@ it will lead you home. -- from "The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns", by Matty Weingast +~ +If we are honest with ourselves, we know from our own experience that the more +we try to find solutions to our problems through thinking about them, the more +we start going around in circles, sometimes interminably. Buddhism counsels +us to resist being abused by our conflicting emotions and to let go of +excessive thinking. Emotions can be expressed in an unhealthy, self- +destructive manner or in a healthy and constructive fashion. Similarly, we +can think in a self-destructive, confused way, which reinforces our negative +habits, or we can think in a constructive way. Buddhism emphasizes that +overindulgence in conflicting emotions and distorted forms of thinking only +reinforces our old habits, which solidifies our karmic tendencies even +further. + -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "Mind at Ease: Self-Liberation through Mahamudra + Meditation", published by Shambhala Publications +