From 14a0a64710a5eefbc0f605566904bc91687b0f7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:27:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index ad7a71db..ade8e3cb 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38216,3 +38216,20 @@ death. If we do not follow the doctor’s prescription when we are sick, then even if the doctor sits constantly by our side, the pain will not go away. -- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, from "Enlightened Courage: An Explanation of the Seven-Point Mind Training", translated by Padmakara Translation Group. +~ +The realization of the nature of the mind is not something we can find by +searching for it from afar. It is present within the essence of the mind +itself. If we do not alter or change that in any way, that is enough. It is +not as if we were lacking something before, so we need to make something new +through our meditation. It is not as if we are bad and have to go through all +sorts of efforts to make ourselves good. Goodness is something we all have. +It has always been with us, but we have just not looked for it or seen it yet, +so we have become confused. Therefore all we need to do is to just rest +within it without changing it. We see where it stays and rest there, so we +are like a kusulu. This means that we rest free and easy with nothing to do, +very simply. We do not need to think that we are making something good or +that we need to meditate properly. It is enough just to know what we already +have. + -- Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, from "Vivid Awareness", in "The Best Buddhist + Writing 2012", edited by Melvin McLeod and the editors of the Shambhala + Sun, pages 196–197. -- 2.34.1