From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 19:42:14 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: new fortune.
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new fortune.
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diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat
index 217bdd52..a8b0d17a 100644
--- a/database/fortunes.dat
+++ b/database/fortunes.dat
@@ -38645,8 +38645,8 @@ movements of body, speech, and mind, and the acts of eating, sleeping, moving,
 and sitting, we are known as the yogins and yoginis who stand guard over the
 shifting dharmakaya display.  This is the supreme method of sustaining the
 essence of meditation.  According to Dzogchen teaching, this is unadulterated
-by any kind of focus; it is called “the great meditation that is
-nonmeditation.”
+by any kind of focus; it is called "the great meditation that is
+nonmeditation."
   --Tulku Pema Rigtsal, "The Great Secret of Mind: Special Instructions on the
     Nonduality of Dzogchen", translated by Keith Dowman.
 ~
@@ -38672,4 +38672,26 @@ all sentient beings.  This is bodhichitta, or the altruistic mind, which aims
 for the enlightenment of all sentient beings.
   --Shechen Rabjam, "The Great Medicine That Conquers Clinging to the Notion
     of Reality: Steps in Meditation on the Enlightened Mind"
-
+~
+      Direct perfect enlightenment [with regard to] all aspects,
+      and abandonment of the stains along with their imprints
+      [are called] buddha and nirvana respectively.
+      In truth, these are not two different things.
+        —Arya Maitreya
+
+All aspects of the knowable—all absolute and relative phenomena—are
+directly known.  Through this knowledge one is immediately and perfectly
+enlightened.  This is the aspect of realization.  All the adventitious
+defilements—the two veils along with their remaining imprints—are
+abandoned without any exception.  This is the aspect of abandonment.  These
+two qualities have been led to ultimate perfection.  They are therefore named
+"perfect buddha" ["perfectly awakened and expanded"] from the
+viewpoint of the former aspect, and "nirvana" ["gone beyond any torment
+and pain"] from the viewpoint of the latter aspect.  These two aspects are
+contained in one and the same meaning, the meaning of the tathagatagarbha,
+whereas a difference only lies in the convention of the different terms.  In
+the sense of the absolute field of experience of the noble ones’ primordial
+wisdom the qualities of realization and abandonment are therefore completely
+inseparable and do not exist as two different things.
+  -- Arya Maitreya, "Buddha Nature: The Mahayana Uttaratantra Shastra with
+     Commentary", with commentary by Jamgön Kongtrül Lodro Thaye