From 1d9d019780aed1f2da7b4f1e338979e22acff14d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:49:59 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- infobase/fortunes.dat | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 00d45e14..a4eff73d 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -41473,4 +41473,21 @@ for no reason at all. Rather, I think that the reason to love is so vast that it cannot be limited to any particular reasons. -- The Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, in "The Heart Is Noble", published by Shambhala Publications +~ + Human beings suffer birth, sickness, aging and death. We enumerate these +different forms of suffering but prefer not to think about what they entail. +We only need to watch a birth to know how traumatic and painful the passage +through the birth canal must be for the baby. Aging is distasteful to +everyone but small children, who long to be grown up. Everyone else likes to +be told they don’t look a day older. + Even reading about diseases or hearing of others’ sicknesses fills us +with a dread that we might contract them. When we actually fall ill +ourselves, we feel afraid and helpless. As for death, everyone avoids talking +about it. Humans also experience the constant frustration of not getting what +they want and getting what they don’t want. When we first meet people, they +may seem successful and happy, but as soon as we get to know them better, we +discover they all have a tale of woe to tell. + -- "Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment", commentary by Geshe + Sonam Rinchen, translated and edited by Ruth Sonam, published by + Shambhala Publications -- 2.34.1