From 8995892763d06d6cf95265ac2c7e238092058c26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:22:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 4b3973bc..e575ee1b 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -39309,3 +39309,45 @@ approachers to, and abiders in, these states. Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin +~ + We need a clear mind-training map to keep us from missing the correct path. +If we want to go to New York we need to know the roads and directions. Just +jumping in the car and starting to drive may get us there, but most likely we +will end up in another place or take much longer than is necessary. + I have seen this happen with students who tell me of doing years of +meditation without seeing any changes. They may blame themselves, meditation, +or the Dharma, yet most often the problem is not knowing or applying the +correct techniques or methods. Meditation is both easy and not easy. With +the correct techniques and methods, applied with diligence, meditation can +become a swift path to clearing confusion and unhelpful habits. Without them, +we may wander in fogginess or agitation, never having engaged in true +meditation even after years of “sitting.” + At Namdroling Monastery we practiced both resting and analytical meditation. +The renowned teacher Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche believed that both types of +meditation were important, but he thought it was best to begin with analytical +meditation, because gaining familiarity with the true nature of reality would +naturally lead to a clearer understanding of resting meditation and how to +engage our mind constructively. + -- Khenpo Gawang, "Your Mind Is Your Teacher: Self-Awakening through + Contemplative Meditation", Shambhala Publications +~ + Never think, “Even though I have confidence in the Three Jewels, it is not +really certain that this work will be accomplished.” Instead, one should +know that the Enlightened One is surely able to protect those who surrender +and act in accord with his words, because the Enlightened One is endowed with +the transcendental wisdom which knows all the paths of practice that are in +harmony with the intelligence and nature of all living beings, because he has +the compassionate desire to establish his disciples on the right path after +turning them from wrong ways, and because he has accomplished the two +accumulations of merit and transcendental wisdom and has accomplished the +resolve to help beings. So even though one has not yet attained liberation +from worldly existence, it is one’s fault for not having trusted and not +having acted in accord with the words of the Three Jewels, not because the +Three Jewels have no compassion. + In brief, those who do not entrust themselves to the Precious Jewels, who +are arrogant and who assume they are intelligent have no certainty in +accomplishing their schemes. Even if they are accomplished, it is not certain +whether those schemes will turn out well in the long run. So it is important +to entrust oneself always to the Precious Jewels. + -- Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub, "Three Visions: Fundamental Teachings of the + Sakya Lineage of Tibetan Buddhism" -- 2.34.1