From 021feaaa2652da3ad36bd2e67f60564e6b065969 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:04:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 0626d076..872d568c 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38010,3 +38010,16 @@ the cause of all the vast range of distorted states of mind, one cultivates the wisdom that eliminates this ego-grasping. To overcome ego-grasping is to overcome the entire host of mental distortions. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama +~ +It is the general Buddhist procedure that one’s own pleasure and pain are +acheived by oneself and not from the outside, and that, therefore, sentient +beings themselves must understand and implement practices to bring about their +own happiness. Thus, the most efficacious way to help others is through +teaching what should be adopted in practice and what should be discarded from +among current behavior. There is no way to do this unless you come to know +all of the topics involved in what should be adopted in practice and what +should be discarded—you must become omniscient. As mentioned earlier, there +is no way to accomplish this except by removing the obstructions to +omniscience, and one who has overcome, utterly and forever, the obstructions +to omniscience is a Buddha. + -- H.H. the Dalai Lama -- 2.34.1