From 8eeaf0b70a228b9b12d2e3db0b0d7941b7569830 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 19:46:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] new fortunes. --- infobase/fortunes.dat | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 5c4975f1..b9cf41b2 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -41798,4 +41798,36 @@ come to know, through our own experience, “This is awareness, and this is ignorance; this is mind, and this is wisdom.” -- Dilgo Khyentse, from "Primordial Purity", published by Shambhala Publications +~ +He says Tibetans are unique because we value the practice of Buddhism. He +gives the example of Tibetan mothers who in the course of a day point +repeatedly toward suffering. They tell their children: don’t kill the ant, +it will suffer; don’t pour hot water on the soil, the earthworm will feel +the sting and the heat will cause it great pain; don’t pull the dog’s tail +so hard. We are told to think for the animals and insects who cannot voice +their pain but for whom suffering is as acute as it is for humans. From a +young age, he says, we are reminded that nobody is free from suffering. I +agree that my Tibetan friends are instinctively more likely to brush away +flies or mosquitoes instead of crushing or swatting them. But why is +compassion so important? What about our land, our independence? Will +compassion free our land? + -- Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, in "Coming Home to Tibet: A Memoir of Love, Loss, +and Belonging", published by Shambhala Publications +~ + At the end of every meditation session, recognize what kind of healing +experience you are feeling. You could be feeling peace, warmth, bliss, +spaciousness, boundlessness, richness, sacredness, or strength. If you have +multiple experiences, it can help to recognize the most prominent one. + The goal is to calmly enjoy the particular experience, resting in +awareness of what you are feeling, without grasping at it or analyzing it or +needing to think about it in words. Just remain one with the experience, in +open awareness, in silence, like water that has merged in water. + Purpose: This meditation is for sowing the seed of experience of the +meditation, not on the rough surface of concepts or afflicting emotions but at +the deeper and calmer level of the open mind. Merging your awareness with the +experience ensures the fruition of the meditation with greatest certainty. +Open awareness helps unite your mind with the result of healing. + This meditation could also lead to, or be, the awareness state of the +enlightened nature itself. + -- by Tulku Thondup, in "Boundless Healing", published by Shambhala Publications -- 2.34.1