From cb3202129c59cca2b18c2a7b9aebc4973ae80670 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:03:25 -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 1d3030f2..cf3b7923 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -39438,3 +39438,28 @@ conflicts are nothing to feel shocked or offended by. Rather, we can address them calmly and with wisdom. -- Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje, in "Beyond Anger: How to Hold On to Your Heart and Your Humanity in the Midst of Injustice", Shambhala Publications +~ +Cyclic existence continues to evolve through the power of the unbroken +relationship of the twelve links of dependent origination. What are these +twelve? They are (1) ignorance, which afflicts wandering beings by keeping +them from seeing true reality. In obscuring the perception of true reality, +ignorance also functions as the source for the subsequent links, such as +karmic formation, by grasping as if there were an “I” and “mine.” (2) +Formation afflicts wandering beings by implanting the seeds of subsequent +existence in the consciousness. In this way, when the root text states: +“Wandering beings are afflicted due to…,” it should be understood to +apply to all the remaining links as well, from consciousness on. Accordingly, +(3) consciousness becomes infused with habitual tendencies and leads sentient +beings to the place of their birth. (4) Name and form take hold of the body +of one’s coming existence. (5) The six sense sources bring the state of +name and form to completion. (6) Contact determines the experience of an +object based on the coming together of three factors: object, faculty, and +cognition. (7) Sensation experiences the various types of enjoyable and +painful karmic ripening. (8) Craving creates the cohesion necessary for a +future existence. (9) Grasping totally binds one to such an existence. (10) +Becoming brings about the actual acquisition of this birth. (11) Birth serves +as the support for the suffering of old age and so on. (12) Aging and death +is the essence of suffering. + -- Khenpo Shenga and Ju Mipham, "Middle Beyond Extremes: Maitreya’s + Madhyantavibhaga with Commentaries" +~ -- 2.34.1