From 3226828d2397916ad6ed04b575e0e6ef96ab9a26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:21:56 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index a6fb92f0..d56a213e 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38278,3 +38278,16 @@ is our buddha-nature. -- Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, from "Vivid Awareness" in "The Best Buddhist Writing 2012", edited by Melvin McLeod and the editors of the Shambhala Sun, page 200. +~ + If your engagement with others is tainted by strong attachment, craving, +aversion, anger, and so forth, then that form of grasping is undesirable. But +on the other hand, when you are interacting with other living beings and +become aware of their needs or suffering or pain, then you need to fully +engage with that and be compassionate. So there can be positive attachment in +this sense of active engagement. + Buddhist masters have long used the term attachment to describe the quality +of compassion for others. For example, a verse from Haribhadra’s Clear +Meaning Commentary refers to compassion that is attached to other living +beings. And as we have seen, Nagarjuna teaches that attachment for other +living beings will arise spontaneously in the person who realizes emptiness. + -- H.H. the Dalai Lama -- 2.34.1