From 6cb5fa1c79e3bb5e7db1deeb8ba9783d8e7c51ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:04:32 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 808e9f93..7bf6ce95 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -39106,4 +39106,17 @@ left the confinements of solid earth and have the vastness of open space to play in. -- Michaela Haas, from "Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West" - +~ +Drawing from Longchenpa, Jamgon Kongtrul explains the method of awakening in +the Dzog-chen system, calling it the “Liberation as Ever-Perfect,” as the +primordial buddha Samantabhadra... Liberation as Ever-Perfect does not refer +to the liberation of a buddha that has occurred in the past, such as that of +Buddha Sakyamuni, but to the way in which countless beings are liberated right +now and will continue to be liberated in the future simply by realizing their +primordial purity. The basis, the path, and the ultimate result in this +system are all of a singular, undifferentiated nature: total, pure awareness. +Thus, the primordial freedom that one seeks to attain by practicing the +spiritual path is something that one already possesses. Intrinsic freedom is +itself the path that leads to the actualization of the goal. + -- from the Translator's Introduction, "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book One, + Myriad Worlds", by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye -- 2.34.1