From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:06:16 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1191 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a17cfc7a1a985fa3deb45c0e9243f8c6370b6934;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 7853e5fa..60b6121e 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38322,3 +38322,23 @@ compassion. In our immediate experience, these two forms of grasping may seem the same, but in terms of the overall mental environment they are quite different. Compassion is fact-based, while distorted grasping is not. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama +~ + By and large, human beings tend to prefer to fit in to society by following +accepted rules of etiquette and being gentle, polite, and respectful. The +irony is that this is also how most people imagine a spiritual person should +behave. When a so-called dharma practitioner is seen to behave badly, we +shake our heads over her audacity at presenting herself as a follower of the +Buddha. Yet such judgments are better avoided, because to "fit in" is not +what a genuine dharma practitioner strives for. + Think of Tilopa, for example. He looked so outlandish that if he turned up +on your doorstep today, odds are you would refuse to let him in. And you +would have a point. He would most likely be almost completely naked; if you +were lucky, he might be sporting some kind of G-string; his hair would never +have been introduced to shampoo; and protruding from his mouth would quiver +the tail of a live fish. What would your moral judgment be of such a being? +"Him! A Buddhist?" This is how our theistic, moralistic, and judgmental +minds work. Of course, there is nothing wrong with morality, but the point of +spiritual practice, according to the vajrayana teachings, is to go beyond all +our concepts, including those of morality. + -- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, from "Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So- + Called Preliminary Practices".