From: Chris Koeritz Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:47:33 +0000 (-0500) Subject: new fortune X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1131 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b348ff4665f42174539cda0d99209e285f7bd4ed;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index a2729641..ffbebf2d 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38751,3 +38751,27 @@ intellectually. When we learn to also feel and respect this in our heart, love naturally flourishes within us. -- The Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, "The Heart is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out" +~ + Day and night, night and day we spend our lives in the company of the +afflictions, generating desire for the pleasant and anger at the unpleasant, +and continue thus even when dreaming, unable to remain relaxed, our minds +completely and utterly mixed with thoughts of desire and hatred without +interruption. + To what refuge should we go? A source of refuge must have completely +overcome all defects forever; it must be free of all faults. It must also +have all the attributes of altruism—those attainments which are necessary +for achieving others' welfare. For it is doubtful that anyone lacking these +two prerequisites can bestow refuge; it would be like falling into a ditch and +asking another who is in it to help you out. You need to ask someone who is +standing outside the ditch for help; it is senseless to ask another who is in +the same predicament. A refuge capable of protecting from the frights of +manifold sufferings cannot also be bound in this suffering but must be free +and unflawed. Furthermore, the complete attainments are necessary, for if you +have fallen into a ditch, it is useless to seek help from someone standing +outside it who does not wish to help or who wishes to help but has no means to +do so. + Only a Buddha has extinguished all faults and gained all attainments. +Therefore, one should mentally go for refuge to a Buddha, praise him with +speech, and respect him physically. One should enter the teaching of such a +being. + -- H.H. the Dalai Lama