From: Chris Koeritz Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 20:41:34 +0000 (-0500) Subject: new fortune X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~541 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=82245e5d92b5d60d11edde40d1951f8443e9110e;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune --- diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 660e964b..ed0f8e00 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -41443,4 +41443,17 @@ unnecessary; the seeker--yourself--is that [which one is seeking]. Unwaveringly remain right with that very seeker. -- Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche, "Strand of Jewels", published by Shambhala Publications +~ +Thus, all compounded and uncompounded phenomena--the ten directions, the +three times, the three worlds, and so forth--are none other than one’s own +mind, as is stated in the Great Sovereign of Practices, the Victory over the +Three Worlds: "If one realizes, in accordance with one’s own unmistaken +mind or the power of the mind, that discerning consciousness is the very +nature of the buddhas, bodhisattvas, and the like, one is enlightened. If one +fails to understand this, everything appears as the vessel and contents that +constitute samsara. The three worlds are simply this; the great elements +are simply this." + -- Padmasambhava, "A Garland of Views: A Guide to View, Meditation, and + Result in the Nine Vehicles", from Padmasambhava’s classic text with a + commentary by Jamgön Mipham, published by Shambhala Publications