From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 21:12:40 +0000 (-0500) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~707 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9cd2c8ecd78c2f989fada05e12b018463f7786c8;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index ce63b3a3..734f2f68 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -40735,4 +40735,19 @@ been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution. -- James Madison, General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1785) - +~ +Being civil often has an element of acting. However, in the hinayana, you are +behaving rather than acting. Acting is trying to manifest yourself for the +sake of display, whereas behaving is how you feel. Acting is the way you +dance, and behaving is the way you sneeze or hiccup. You know if you are +being genuine. You are the first person who knows. When you are acting, you +are concerned with other people’s possible reactions; but when you are +behaving, you are just behaving. It’s like sitting on the toilet seat and +doing your duty: nobody is watching. It’s your private concern, so there is +a quality of genuineness. In the hinayana, you behave decently because the +dharma is actually a part of you. That is the meaning of taming yourself... +Becoming a dharmic person means that in your everyday life from morning to +morning, around the clock, you are not trying to kid anybody. + -- Chögyam Trungpa, from "The Path of Individual Liberation: Volume One of + The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma", published by Shambhala + Publications