From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 22:49:03 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: new fortunes
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new fortunes
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diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat
index 1a09d732..23c5382b 100644
--- a/infobase/fortunes.dat
+++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat
@@ -43348,4 +43348,66 @@ planet Earth.  You are a noble citizen of the boundless field of contingent
 relationships, pratityasamutpada.
   -- Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, from "The Logic of Faith", published by
      Shambhala Publications
+~
+It is through the teacher’s blessing that you see
+The self-arisen primal wisdom, inexpressible,
+Beyond both word and thought.
+And in the moment of its seeing,
+Timeless are the three times,
+No difference separates the future from the past.
+This is the Wisdom That Has Gone Beyond; the Middle Way;
+The Stilling (of all thought and sorrow); the Great Seal;
+The Great Perfection of the quintessential ultimate reality,
+That is, the fundamental natural state
+Where, from the very first,
+Phenomena are all exhausted.
+It is mind’s luminosity,
+The self-arisen primal wisdom.
+Many names it has received, yet all have but one meaning:
+Ultimate reality, beyond the range
+Of speech, of thought, of explanation:
+The enlightened mind,
+The space-like nature where saṃsāra and nirvāṇa are not two.
+  -- Longchenpa, from "Finding Rest in Meditation", published by Shambhala
+     Publications
+~
+    Become accustomed to the fact that all we accept or reject, dualistically
+affirm or deny (such as enjoyment and disgust, happiness and frustration,
+beauty and ugliness, fear and security, sickness and health, enemies and
+friends, love and hatred, or whatever), has one taste, thus judgments are
+reversed.
+
+Listen great being: do not create duality from the unique state.
+Happiness and misery are one in pure and total presence.
+Buddhas and beings are one in the nature of mind.
+Appearances and beings, the environment and its inhabitants are one in
+    reality.
+Even the duality of truth and falsehood are the same in reality.
+Do not latch onto happiness; do not eliminate misery.
+Thereby everything is accomplished.
+Attachment to pleasure brings misery.
+Total clarity, being non-conceptual,
+Is self-refreshing pristine awareness.   
+  -- Longchenpa, from "You Are the Eyes of the World", published by Shambhala
+     Publications
+~
+The realizations that arise through meditating thus
+Are all of the same taste.
+They are not manifold; they are not different.
+It is like those who come from three directions
+And meet together in a single place,
+And like the different flowing streams
+That join and are as one within a single sea.
+Bliss, luminosity, and no-thought—
+Whichever of these methods one may practice—
+When mental movement comes to complete rest
+And in the nature of the mind, the unborn space, dissolves,
+The enlightened mind, devoid of concepts
+(Whether of existence or of nonexistence),
+The sun of fundamental nature, bright and clear,
+Will rise up from within.
+In this realization, changeless and unmoving,
+There is nothing to be added, nothing to remove.   
+  -- Longchenpa, from "Finding Rest in Meditation", published by Shambhala
+     Publications