From 852bb167b94097d65ad5e61e70059958752e4494 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 12:55:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- infobase/fortunes.dat | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 27250365..60a8e186 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -40313,3 +40313,24 @@ Nor made worse by sentient beings. -- from "Luminous Heart: The Third Karmapa on Consciousness, Wisdom, and Buddha Nature", translated by Karl Brunnhölzl, published by Shambhala Publications +~ + It is possible to mistake attachment for loving-kindness and compassion. +Love and compassion are distinguished from attachment in that they apply +equally to your friends and your enemies. Genuine love and compassion make no +distinction based on your relationship to the object of compassion. They are +the wish that all sentient beings without exception have happiness and the +causes of happiness, and the wish that all sentient beings without exception +be free of suffering and the causes of suffering. The keynote of those two +attitudes is that there is no hope involved of any kind of return or any sort +of personal satisfaction as a result of the happiness of others. + In the case of attachment to someone, you wish that person well but it is +based on an identification with him or her as “my friend, my son, my +daughter.” This identification and this feeling of ownership or +territoriality is related to wanting some kind of return. You enjoy the +happiness of that person because you have identified with him or her, and +therefore in essence it is just wishing for your own benefit. Such attachment +can very easily turn to aversion, anger, and hatred. That is the difference +between compassion and attachment. + -- Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, from "The Instructions of Gampopa: A Precious + Garland of the Supreme Path", published by Shambhala Publications. + -- 2.34.1