From 31eb5fc96da88d64907fb4b55a2033a604188ec8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:30:49 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 7bf6ce95..00e15df1 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -39120,3 +39120,25 @@ spiritual path is something that one already possesses. Intrinsic freedom is itself the path that leads to the actualization of the goal. -- from the Translator's Introduction, "The Treasury of Knowledge: Book One, Myriad Worlds", by Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye +~ + If we realize, “I am a human being. A human being can do anything,” +this determination, courage, and self-confidence are important sources of +victory and success. Without will power and determination, even something +that you might have achieved easily cannot be achieved. If you have will +power and reasonable courage—not blind courage but courage without +pride—even things that seemed impossible at a certain stage turn into being +possible because of continuing effort inspired by that courage. Thus, +determination is important. + How can this be developed? Not through machines, not by money, but by our +own inner strength based on clear realization of the value of human beings, of +human dignity. For, once we realize that a human being is much more than just +material, much more than just money, we can feel the importance of human life, +from which we can feel the importance of compassion and kindness. + Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that +feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, +and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the +same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, +believer or nonbeliever, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, +Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value +we are all the same. + -- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, from "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight" -- 2.34.1