From: Chris Koeritz Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 03:15:32 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune X-Git-Tag: 2.140.115^2~104 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9db57b17c86eb555b23908569d26d0e23375324;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune --- diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 3a9653fc..63837fa8 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -43650,3 +43650,20 @@ for the ways in which your tradition has come down to you with so much care.   to Finding Certainty Beyond Belief and Doubt", published by Shambhala Publications + + +If we are attached to a thought, it becomes an obstacle to the development of +our meditation or samadhi. The remedies for reducing attachments to thoughts +are called “pacification” and “taming the mind,” which involve what to +do when we are unwilling to let go of thoughts. Normally we regard thoughts, +and especially certain thoughts, as either particularly important or +particularly pleasant and therefore worthwhile or entertaining. However, in +meditation, thoughts are nothing other than impediments to what we are trying +to do. So, when we are practicing meditation, we have to maintain the +attitude, “This is my time to meditate and now I am not trying to think +thoughts. If I let myself think, I am wasting this time I have to practice.” + +  ##--#Khenchen Thrangu, from "The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer: A Guide to +Practice", published by Shambhala Publications + +