From 2f9554c33277a3d46a1dff80f9b897615133199a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 17:11:34 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index c07e8b41..1bb52c66 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38530,4 +38530,24 @@ of goodness or badness on phenomena beyond what is actually there and serve as a basis for generating desire and hatred lessen; this is because they are based on the misconception that phenomena are established in their own right. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama - +~ + Rely on timeless awareness, which is free of elaboration, without + identity, and the very essence of being; + do not rely on ordinary consciousness, which is a mind fixated + on characteristics and concepts. + + Timeless awareness entails (a) understanding that the way in which phenomena +actually abide is, from the ultimate perspective, free of all limitations +imposed by elaborations of origination, cessation, and so forth; (b) +realization of the nonexistence of the two kinds of identity; and (c) unerring +knowledge of sugatagarbha as utter lucidity, the way in which things actually +abide, beyond any context of speculative value judgments. It is on this +awareness that one should rely. + Ordinary consciousness entails (a) belief that what one immediately +perceives constitutes something truly existent; (b) conceptualization in terms +of characteristics, such as the sense of personal identity and the mind-body +aggregates; and (c) mental states that are conditioned, for example, by +attitudes of naively fixating on the pleasures of the senses. One should not +rely on such consciousness. + -- Jamgön Kongtrül Lodro Taye, from "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Seven + and Book Eight, Parts One and Two" -- 2.34.1