new fortune

diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat
index 2a4ea6244ecd740ec98abff5be75519898476b3f..998484cc9dbf52af0d7134e719b61417928e0971 100644 (file)
--- a/infobase/fortunes.dat
+++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat
@@ -43854,4 +43854,13 @@ This is what yogis must recognize.  
   -- Longchenpa, from "Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind: The Trilogy
      of Rest, Volume 1", translated by Padmakara Translation Group, published
      by Shambhala Publications
-
+~
+The purpose of a knife is much like the purpose of the brain, and that is to
+stop being used.  Just as the brain should do some computation and then desist
+from functioning for a while to rest and relax, so too should one stop using a
+knife as soon as the purpose for which the knife was picked up is achieved.
+If it seems like it's fun to play with a knife or if one feels that the knife
+is an extension of one's penis, then that is not a very good reason to pick up
+a knife; one should probably put the knife right back down in those degenerate
+(in the mathematical sense) cases.  #WhatILearnedFromTheBoyScouts
+  -- fred t. hamster