From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 19:55:36 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~594 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd8a8eb1aaeb3d22eca7e586c1f92131d9916c07;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 3f32f137..1eb547bb 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -41142,4 +41142,18 @@ Acknowledging this will bring us great reward in fact. Doing the opposite, looking at things in a very simple way, keeps us trapped in ignorance. -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "Karma: What It Is, What It Isn't, Why It Matters", published by Shambhala Publications +~ +There is magic in vajrayana practice and in vajrayana altogether. People +often think that magic is the ability to do things like change fire into +water, or float up toward the ceiling and then come down again, or make tomato +ketchup into cream cheese. But we have a better understanding of magic than +that; what is actually happening is better than those things. We are not +talking about magic in the style of a conjuring magician on the stage, but we +are talking about fundamental magic. This magic is always based on the +profound effect that we have discovered from the hinayana discipline of one- +pointedness and the mahayana discipline of openess and compassionate +nonterritoriality. Out of that comes vajrayana magic, which is that we are +able to cut our thoughts abruptly and directly. On the spot! + -- Chögyam Trungpa, in "The Tantric Path of Indestructible Wakefulness", + published by Shambhala Publications