From f99967eb2303966072fd2f92d28b4ee2fabaf5b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:43:34 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- infobase/fortunes.dat | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 97a2dee0..14efb924 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -39929,3 +39929,18 @@ transforming from negative to positive, and then from positive to perfection, is the ideal way to move toward buddhahood, or full perfection. -- Tulku Thondup, from "Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook", published by Shambhala Publications +~ + In the final stanza of his salutation, Tsong-kha-pa (1: 34) calls upon +readers who may benefit from this approach, asking them to listen well. Such +readers will be those with minds unclouded by biased thinking, the mental +capacity to distinguish right from wrong, and an interest in finding real +meaning in their human existence of leisure and opportunity. He asks those of +us with such good fortune, "Please listen to what I have to say with a +single-pointed mind." + Again, this is strikingly similar to Aryadeva’s Four Hundred, which says +that a practitioner of the Dharma who is listening to the teachings needs +three qualities: objectivity, critical intelligence, and a real interest in +what is being taught. + -- H. H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, in "From Here to Enlightenment: An + Introduction to Tsong-kha-pa’s Classic Text The Great Treatise on the + Stages of the Path to Enlightenment", published by Shambhala Publications -- 2.34.1