From 94a850991b040a4b8000a3fa1a2906e7c7f4f612 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:22:33 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 1bb52c66..47347247 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38551,3 +38551,19 @@ 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" +~ + Such is the process of karma: it is ineluctable; its results are greatly +magnified; actions not committed have no effect; and the effects of actions +committed never expire on their own. + Generally speaking, whether you are an ordinary mortal individual or a +spiritually advanced being, all positive experiences that carry with them any +pleasant sensation—down to even the slightest pleasure caused by a cool +breeze for beings reborn in a hell realm—occur due to positive karma +reinforced in the past; it is not in accord with the nature of things that +happiness be due to negative karma. And all negative experiences that carry +with them any unpleasant sensation—down to even the slightest suffering that +could occur in the experience of an arhat—occur due to negative karma one +has reinforced in the past; for it is not in accord with the nature of things +that suffering be due to positive karma. + -- Jamgön Kongtrül Lodro Taye, from "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Seven + and Book Eight, Parts One and Two" -- 2.34.1