new fortune

diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat
index 332f19ecd4768ddb0cb6bb33c227eccb5db564a5..2db2257b7d9be27cd184ec505763a8320f4661f7 100644 (file)
--- a/infobase/fortunes.dat
+++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat
@@ -41666,4 +41666,36 @@ been on trial.  What has been its fruits?  More or less, in all places, pride
 and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both,
 superstition, bigotry and persecution.
   -- James Madison, General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1785)
+~
+If the present and the future
+Depend upon the past,
+Then both the present and the future
+Are existent in the past.
+
+If the present and the future
+Are not present then,
+How could the present and the future
+Be dependent on it?
+
+If they are not dependent on the past,
+Then both are unestablished.
+Thus the present and the future time
+Do not exist.
+
+To the two remaining times, it should be understood,
+This same procedure is applied.
+And likewise it applies to high and low and medium,
+And to the singular and so forth.
+
+Time that does not stay we cannot grasp;
+And time that could be grasped
+Does not remain.  So how can time,
+Ungraspable, be said to be?
+
+If time depends on things,
+Then how can there be time if things do not exist?
+And since there are no things at all,
+How can time exist?
+  -- Nagarjuna, from "The Root Stanzas of the Middle Way: The
+     Mulamadhyamakakarika", published by Shambhala Publications