From a8b0f2b6e3b0f2b9cd5dbc7673a0b400d33b59ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 19:14:21 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index ba8818da..58d81f7a 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -39281,3 +39281,28 @@ that close to all sentient beings, the best person is one who practices Buddhism in order to remove all these countless beings from suffering. -- H.H. Sakya Trinzin, from "Treasures of the Sakya Lineage: Teachings from the Masters", by Migmar Tseten +~ + To take refuge in the Buddha means to take refuge in the dharmas that +constitute a buddha (a nonlearner). These consist of a buddha’s knowledge +of the termination and nonarising [of the obscurations]. Together with the +associated factors [of this knowledge], they consist of the five +uncontaminated skandhas. + To take refuge in the sangha means [to take refuge] in the dharmas that +constitute the sangha, which consists of [all] learners and nonlearners except +for buddhas. It is by virtue of having attained their respective [dharmas] +that the eight persons* are not separated from the path by [anyone], including +gods. Therefore, they are called “sangha.” In other words, [the sangha] +is represented by the five uncontaminated skandhas in the mind streams of said +eight persons. + To take refuge in the dharma means [to take refuge] in the analytical +cessation that is nirvana, that is, the two nirvanas [with and without +remainder] of the noble ones. + +*The eight persons are also known as “the four pairs of persons”--stream- +enterers, once-returners, nonreturners, and arhats, each divided into +approachers to, and abiders in, these states. + + --from "Groundless Paths: The Prajnaparamita Sutras, The Ornament of Clear + Realization, and Its Commentaries in the Tibetan Nyingma Tradition", + translated by Karl Brunnholzl, from Shambhala Publications + -- 2.34.1