From c59c1a350debcf2bbfe26648cc54b368f92586f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:08:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- infobase/fortunes.dat | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 92fb0ed3..1d073929 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -40265,3 +40265,24 @@ destructive emotions. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, "Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism", published by Shambhala Publications. +~ +The key to understanding the Mahayana and Vajrayana views lies in +Nagarjuna’s reasonings. This is because the reason the aggregates and +suffering can be described as being pure by nature is that they are empty by +nature—they are unborn. They never actually come into existence. Something +that never really comes into existence cannot possibly be impure, for what is +there to be impure in the first place? It is like getting covered with filth +in a dream—no matter how dirty you might seem to be, since not a single +particle of the filth is real, in fact there is no impurity at all. Since +there is no impurity, there cannot actually be any purity either, just as when +you take a bath in the dream after having gotten so filthy, your cleanliness +after the bath is just as lacking in reality as the dirtiness that preceded +it. Therefore, the true nature of the dream transcends both purity and +impurity, and this is given the name “original purity.” We have to +understand that what original purity refers to is the freedom from all +fabrications, the emptiness in which we can gain certainty by using +Nagarjuna’s reasonings. + -- Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso, from "The Sun of Wisdom: Teachings on the Noble + Nagarjuna’s Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way", published by Shambhala + Publications + -- 2.34.1