From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:53:22 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortunes. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1410 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=95bfa45ebff48847ab4100b1054dcb5caac7b2eb;p=feisty_meow.git new fortunes. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index ba907364..b849d51e 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -37818,3 +37818,30 @@ perspective. Be courageous and think of your future potential. It is particularly important to do the best you can.(p.82) -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, "How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships", translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins +~ + What is very important for us to recognise is our own falsity. This is not +a judgement that sometimes we are authentic and sometimes we are false. It +means that everything about us in our ordinary sense of self is false because +it is grounded on a misapprehension of the nature of reality.... It is like +somebody in University who is having their final examinations. They go into +the wrong examination room and not reading the questions very clearly they +write very long answers on their own subject that is unfortunately not the one +they are being examined on. It does not matter how good the answer is they +will fail, for they are not addressing the question. + The basic question is always: "Who are you?", "Who am I?" but we do not +understand it and so we answer with a ceaseless narrative of self definition. +This covers over the freshness of the question, the possibility of looking and +seeing, and so all our answers are stale, the reworking of self-protective +versions constructed out of unexamined elements. We have many, many, many +answers and all of them are false. That's why it is very important when you +do meditations, to put your full energy one-pointedly into the practice, to +try to repair the initial basic fault that has torn subject and object apart. + It is very important to stop being ashamed of being false. For we have to +see how falsity arises, how obscuration develops. We want to look directly at +our falsity and learn its tricks so that we will not be caught by them. This +helps to open the space in which we can recognise our own nature. + "When you understand the falsity of your confusion remain unartificially, +effortlessly in the natural mode (dharmakaya)."(p.90) + -- "Being Right Here: A Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje entitled 'The + Mirror of Clear Meaning' with commentary by James Low", published by Snow + Lion Publications