From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 15:05:35 +0000 (-0500) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~743 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9898bee183c5a8230368b7c5a4d165e452534939;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index cc14f03f..973bc15c 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -40483,3 +40483,21 @@ which frees you from fixation. -- Chögyam Trungpa, from "The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma. Volume Two: The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion", published by Shambhala Publications +~ + The appearances of this life--all the various appearances of forms, sounds, +smells, tastes, and bodily sensations we perceive--seem to truly exist. But +life's appearances do not say to us, "I am real." They only seem to be real +from our confused thoughts' perspective when we think, "Those things really +exist out there." That is like what we do in a dream when we do not know we +are dreaming. + Similarly, we mistakenly believe that aging, sickness, and death are truly +existent... but this is just confused consciousness at work. The buddhas' +perfect wisdom does not view this life, or the aging, sickness, and death that +occur within it, as truly existent. The noble buddhas and bodhisattvas with +wisdom that sees genuine reality do not see these events as real. Training in +the view of the Mind-Only school that all phenomena are mind, and in the +Middle Way view that all phenomena are emptiness, helps us transform our +confused consciousness into perfect wisdom. + -- Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso, in "Stars of Wisdom", published by Shambhala + Publications +