From: Chris Koeritz Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 00:33:26 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune X-Git-Tag: 2.140.128~1^2~9 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?p=feisty_meow.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=deea05747036fb543536f8c0b4946e6c5c7cffea new fortune --- diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 6dd9320e..312db4a5 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -43946,3 +43946,16 @@ i buy all my hats at interdimensional pancake restaurant -- fred t. hamster +~ +Love is about finding something pleasant in everyone. It can't be external +appearance, or what the person is engaged in at the moment; it has to be just +the fact that this is a sentient being who wants happiness and does not want +suffering and who has been the best of friends at some time in the limitless +past. A Tibetan definition of love is that the person pleasantly comes to +mind (yid du 'ong ba). Rather than pushing people away, you experience a core +similarity and closeness in them that makes you receptive to their basic +being, regardless of the problem--regardless of how distorted their current +attitudes and behavior are. That's how strong spiritual love is. + -- Jeffrey Hopkins, from "A Truthful Heart: Buddhist Practices for + Connecting with Others", Shambhala Publications +