From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 06:18:51 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~988 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fa15fd577ae9e622aa26b9e23a106b4edda9de62;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 0ee635dc..84afb252 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -39223,3 +39223,13 @@ temporarily by others, one is exhausting the karmic potentials of negative karma which one has accumulated in the past. So it serves two purposes. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective" +~ +The Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682) was perhaps the most mystical of all the +Dalai Lamas in that he seemed to spend much of his time in a state of trance. +During these trances many gurus of past ages, as well as mandala deities, +buddhas, and bodhisattvas, would appear directly to him and give him secret +transmissions, initiations, and teachings. As the Thirteenth Dalai Lama says +of the Great Fifth later in this chapter, he “was continually absorbed in +the wisdom dance that experiences all appearances as pure vision.” + -- Glenn H. Mullin, from "From the Heart of Chenrezig: The Dalai Lamas on + Tantra"