From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:04:32 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1011^2 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6cb5fa1c79e3bb5e7db1deeb8ba9783d8e7c51ff;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 808e9f93..7bf6ce95 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -39106,4 +39106,17 @@ left the confinements of solid earth and have the vastness of open space to play in. -- Michaela Haas, from "Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West" - +~ +Drawing from Longchenpa, Jamgon Kongtrul explains the method of awakening in +the Dzog-chen system, calling it the “Liberation as Ever-Perfect,” as the +primordial buddha Samantabhadra... Liberation as Ever-Perfect does not refer +to the liberation of a buddha that has occurred in the past, such as that of +Buddha Sakyamuni, but to the way in which countless beings are liberated right +now and will continue to be liberated in the future simply by realizing their +primordial purity. The basis, the path, and the ultimate result in this +system are all of a singular, undifferentiated nature: total, pure awareness. +Thus, the primordial freedom that one seeks to attain by practicing the +spiritual path is something that one already possesses. Intrinsic freedom is +itself the path that leads to the actualization of the goal. + -- from the Translator's Introduction, "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book One, + Myriad Worlds", by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye