From 79cf778cd04cadd02794ceb1e0ec1c7ad0b39180 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:39:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 318a52f5..d28d2beb 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -38988,3 +38988,29 @@ clearly defined object, like Buddha or Jesus Christ or a bodhisattva, but was simply directed to all great beings who have infinite compassion towards all sentient beings. -- H.H. the Dalai Lama +~ +The Buddhist teaching is superior in four ways: view, meditation, behavior, +and fruit. + +1. The "four seals" that distinguish the [Buddhist] view are as follows: all +composed phenomena are impermanent, all contaminated things are miserable, all +phenomena are selfless, and nirvana is peace. + +2. Buddhist meditation serves as an antidote to all cyclic existence within +the three realms. + +3. Buddhist behavior is free from the two extremes, having abandoned both the +extreme of overindulgence of desire, which is a case of being desirous and +wanting good and great quantities of food and clothing, and the extreme of +being too tired and worn out in body and mind. + +4. The fruits are the true cessations, which are abandonments such that the +obstruction that is removed does not arise again [and which comes about] +through analyzing individually the nonexistence of the referent object of the +conception of self. + +These four [view, meditation, behavior, and fruit] are the distinguishing +features of Buddhist doctrine. + -- Jamyang Shayba, from "Buddhist Philosophy: Losang Gonchok’s Short + Commentary to Jamyang Shayba's Root Text on Tenets", by Daniel Cozort + and Craig Preston, page 88. -- 2.34.1