From 1d7da25ace23d61ee94cee79c0dc494367528edf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:40:02 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ssh xterm thing working now, btw. added new fortune. --- infobase/fortunes.dat | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 3926768e..18bad2ac 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -40821,4 +40821,27 @@ Now that you have obtained the precious human body, You continuously get carried away by mundane actions. Don’t you notice that your life is running out? -- Padmasambhava +~ + The key to understanding the truth of suffering is what the Buddha called +the “three marks” of everything that exists. All conditioned phenomena, +he said, are pervaded by these three marks: impermanence (anitya), +dissatisfaction or suffering (duhkha), and insubstantiality (anatman, +“without self”). + According to the Buddha, if we do not understand how conditioned phenomena +are marked by these three aspects, then we will not be able to understand the +first Noble Truth. We may do all we can in order to avoid facing the fact +that everything is contingent and transient—we may try to hide ourselves +from it, and we may even spin out all kinds of metaphysical theories of an +unchanging, permanent, substantial reality to avoid this all-pervasive nature +of ephemerality. Also, if we do not understand that conditioned phenomena are +unsatisfactory, we will not think about restraining ourselves from +overindulgence in sensory gratifications, which makes us lose our center and +become immersed in worldly concerns, so that our life is governed by greed, +craving, and attachment. All of these things disturb the mind. + If we do not understand that everything is insubstantial—anatman—then +we may believe that there is some kind of enduring essence or substance in +things, or in the personality, and because of this belief we generate delusion +and confusion in the mind. + -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "The Essence of Buddhism", published by Shambhala + Publications -- 2.34.1