From b8a3bcd4372f0dd04d3b0769ada1e01aa29bf3b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2013 16:50:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index 1d0b3e54..d8ee9934 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -39074,3 +39074,26 @@ we are able to overcome confusion and anxiety, even our anxiety is not regarded as anti-dharma or anti-path. Cosmic wakefulness takes place. -- Chögyam Trungpa's in the foreword to "The Rain of Wisdom: The Essence of the Ocean of True Meaning" +~ +Scrutinize Apperances + +No matter what our mind makes appear as an object of one of our six +collections of consciousness—sights, sounds, smells, tastes, tactile or +bodily sensations, or mental objects or events—we thoroughly scrutinize its +mode of appearance. Our mind is making it appear as though its existence were +established by virtue of itself, empowered by some truly and inherently +existent self-nature—and not by virtue simply of mental labeling +establishing its existence as what can be labeled "this" or "that" +from this side. We thoroughly scrutinize this mode of appearance and the mode +of existence it implies. There does appear to be something solidly there, not +existing as what it is by virtue simply of mental labeling, but by virtue of +itself, independently of anything else. But, by reminding ourselves that it +does not exist as it appears to exist—by being mindful that its existence +and identity are not established through its own power—we automatically +reconfirm and become even stronger in our conviction in its bare mode of +existence. In other words, as the text [the First Panchen Lama’s A Root +Text for the Precious Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra] says, "[You +experience] their bare mode of existence dawning in an exposed, resplendent +manner." + -- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, from "The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition + of Mahamudra" -- 2.34.1