From a6fe685350e51b3d8e6f9dc9688d78f29a6761b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:13:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- infobase/fortunes.dat | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index a5b2d694..3d6c8498 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -40189,3 +40189,15 @@ accordance with the mental tendencies, capacities, and karmic predispositions of those to be trained. -- Glenn H. Mullin, "From the Heart of Chenrezig: The Dalai Lamas on Tantra" published by Shambhala Publications +~ +You might say, "Don’t pleasurable experiences give rise to happiness?" +Although for ordinary people pleasures may appear to be related to happiness +at the time they are enjoyed, in the end they are their undoing. They are, +the Sovereign of the Conquerors said, like the fruit of the kimba tree, which +grows in the western continent of Aparagodaniya: its skin is attractive but it +is unpleasant inside; or it tastes delicious when one first eats it, but later +it makes one ill. So, advises Nagarjuna, give up these pleasures, for it is +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. -- 2.34.1