From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 17:21:12 +0000 (-0500) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~855 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c67d3cfd0add82d6a920ba93041903c382c95da3;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 96cfcf49..b2409a80 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -39761,3 +39761,21 @@ intrinsic vibrant emptiness--the beginningless ground of what we are. -- Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, from "Roaring Silence: Discovering the Mind of Dzogchen", published by Shambhala Publications and Snow Lion Publications. +~ +Detachment doesn't mean "throw it away" or "don’t have feelings +about it." It definitely does not mean denying or obstructing the mind's +natural tendency to project. Imagine you are about to go into a cotton +factory. Before entering you pour glue all over your body, and then you +demand, "I don’t want any cotton balls to stick to my body, but I won’t +remove the glue from my body either." Then you enter the cotton factory. +Of course the glue, by its nature, makes cotton balls stick to you. In +meditative language, that kind of stickiness is called deliberation or +fabrication, and here we call it the state of nondetachment. The state of +nondetachment is when you get entangled and you make the story line similar to +that of a daytime soap opera in which four characters go on for twenty years. +It keeps on multiplying and you exaggerate the situation. You create a state +in your mind that is full of grasping, clinging, and attachment. + -- Jetsun Khandro Rinpoche from "The Healing Power of Meditation: Leading + Experts on Buddhism, Psychology, and Medicine Explore the Health Benefits + of Contemplative Practice", edited by Andy Fraser, published by Shambhala + Publications and Snow Lion Publications.