From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:03:34 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~981 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a871584a046a65e540c232d06691a7ee82b1d044;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index b5213309..ba8818da 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -39260,3 +39260,24 @@ Buddha’s Wisdom Body. All we have to do is learn to transform these ordinary elements into their pure natures. Then buddhahood naturally comes into our hands. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "The Path to Enlightenment" +~ + There are three kinds of people [who practice Buddhism]. Like all other +beings, the lowest person wants happiness and not suffering or rebirth in the +lower realms of existence, so he practices Buddhism to create the causes of +rebirth in the human realm or in the heavenly realms of the gods. He does not +have the power or the courage to leave worldly existence completely. He only +wants the best parts of worldly existence; he wants to avoid the worst parts, +and that is why he practices the Buddhist religion—to gain a higher rebirth. + The middling sort of person understands that the whole of worldly existence, +no matter where one is born, is suffering by its nature, just as fire is hot +by its nature. He wants to get out of it altogether and attain nirvana, the +state that is entirely away from suffering. + The highest person realizes that just as he himself does not want to suffer +and does want happiness, so also do all living beings have the same fears and +wishes. He knows that since we have been born again and again from +beginningless time in worldly existence, there is not a single sentient being +who has not been our mother and father at one time or another. Since we are +that close to all sentient beings, the best person is one who practices +Buddhism in order to remove all these countless beings from suffering. + -- H.H. Sakya Trinzin, from "Treasures of the Sakya Lineage: Teachings from + the Masters", by Migmar Tseten