From: Chris Koeritz Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:54:59 +0000 (-0500) Subject: new fortune X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1166 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=af4c17d7b1ff38f9b8c3938372be70d4da2ffc5f;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 47347247..2412adcc 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38567,3 +38567,27 @@ has reinforced in the past; for it is not in accord with the nature of things that suffering be due to positive karma. -- Jamgön Kongtrül Lodro Taye, from "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Seven and Book Eight, Parts One and Two" +~ + "That which is seen and that which is touched are of a dream-like and + illusion-like nature. Because feeling arises together with the mind, + it is not [ultimately] perceived." --Shantideva + + There is nothing whatever that has a true mode of existence. Nevertheless, +this does not suggest that a person who experiences feelings and the feelings +themselves—pleasant and unpleasant—are utterly non-existent. They do +exist, but in an untrue fashion. Thus, the things that we see and touch have +a dream-like and illusion-like quality. + In the second line the author refutes the true existence of the mind that +experiences feelings. Since feelings arise in conjunction with the mind, +feelings are not perceived by the mind that is simultaneous with them. There +must be a causal relationship between the experienced object and the +experiencing subject. If two entities are substantially distinct and exist +simultaneously, there could be neither a causal relationship nor an identity +relationship between them. + For this reason the author denies that either [intrinsic] relationship could +hold for the feelings and the awareness that is simultaneous with them. Two +mental events that arise in conjunction with each other are not able to +apprehend one another. This holds true for all states of awareness. Thus, +feelings are not observed by the awareness that arises in conjunction with +them and that exists simultaneously with them. + -- H.H. the Dalai Lama