From 36a9a32fa6f9328a5c9ad766f67e764fbd359e2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:24:57 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 69a49171..ca2d8102 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38916,6 +38916,30 @@ harm to others. As it says in the sutras: Abandon evildoing; Practice virtue well; Subdue your mind: - This is the Buddha’s teaching. + This is the Buddha's teaching. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama, from "For the Benefit of All Beings" +~ +In the avadhuti, the main path of enlightenment, +Prana and mind, bliss and warmth, are united, +Becoming unconditioned great bliss. +The wisdom of unobscured insight dawns. + +"This is unsurpassable," the guru has said. +The darkness of ignorance is purified in space. +One is free from the two obscurations of grasping and fixation. +Therefore bliss and luminosity dawn in simplicity. + +This appearance of collective coincidence +Is a reflection without self-nature. +All appearances are realized like that, +And just like appearances in a dream, +All dharmas arise as illusions... + +When thoughts arise, rest naturally. +When dreaming, be mindful without corrupting it. +When in the pardo, don’t control, but be aware. +When there is fruition, let it arise without obscuration. + + -- from "The Life of Marpa the Translator" translated by Chögyam Trungpa + and the Nalanda Translation Committee. -- 2.34.1