From 5139aaf4fbf92c8387534ab63475a9e50015466a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 09:03:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- infobase/fortunes.dat | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 3d6c8498..5a1c5bb3 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -40201,3 +40201,25 @@ the chains—the afflictive emotions—of attachment to pleasure that tightly bind the worldly in the prison of samsara. -- Nagarjuna, from "Nagarjuna’s Letter to a Friend with Commentary by Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche", published by Shambhala Publications. +~ + The wish to understand the true nature of mind by relying on technology is +due to the fault of not having awakened one’s Buddha nature, and because of +that, the absolute and relative nature of one’s uncompounded mind just as it +is cannot be recognized even slightly, which is the reason for relying only on +the compounded gross material substance of technology. While examining the +qualities of one’s own and others’ practice by bringing together a machine +and the one who uses the machine, if any special conception arises about its +being good, bad, high, or low, it will only be a fragmented, deluded +interdependent conception that momentarily appears, and not nonconceptual +enlightened body and wisdom, which are inconceivable. It will just be like +children blowing bubbles in the air and trying to catch these rainbow-colored +bubbles with their hands. As Santideva says about the dream of a barren +woman: + For example, a barren woman dreams her son is dead. When she awakens, she +thinks that she has no son. That conception of not having a son comes from +the conception of having a son. So, both of these conceptions are obstacles +and also delusion. + -- Thinley Norbu, from "The Sole Panacea: A Brief Commentary on the Seven- + Line Prayer to Guru Rinpoche That Cures the Suffering of the Sickness of + Karma and Defilement", published by Shambhala Publications. + -- 2.34.1