From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:15:48 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune X-Git-Tag: 2.140.115^2~75 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?p=feisty_meow.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=0e16f2cc86b55e8303de4b920fdf46d6351238fc new fortune --- diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 588814f6..2b932bfb 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -43706,4 +43706,18 @@ Please meditate in the forest from now on. -- Longchenpa, from "The Life of Longchenpa: The Omniscient Dharma King of the Vast Expanse", Compiled and edited by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart, published by Shambhala Publications +~ +Compassion has no hierarchy of worthy and unworthy suffering; it makes no +distinctions between the deserving and the undeserving. Wherever there is +suffering, there is a need for compassion. Finding compassion for those who +cause pain is an ongoing practice requiring remarkable patience and +perseverance. It is a difficult journey, but the path of bitterness and +division is far more painful. The path of compassion begins with your +willingness to soften and stay present in all the moments when you are prone +to recoil and flinch. You learn to open your eyes and heart in all the places +you have been blinded by fear or rage. You begin to dismantle the boundaries +that have too long divided you from others. + -- "All the Rage--Buddhist Wisdom on Anger and Acceptance", Edited by Andrea + Miller and the Editors of the Shambhala Sun, published by Shambhala + Publications