From 3ddac5a51ed20d49d7d4ada1aa83765a711059e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 11:36:03 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] new fortunes --- infobase/fortunes.dat | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index f2a2cb64..c1ee8956 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -43164,4 +43164,39 @@ immeasurable fault. You will harm yourself.   -- Kensur Lekden, from "Meditations of a Tibetan Tantric Abbot: The Main Practices of the Mahayana Buddhist Path", translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, published by Shambhala Publications +~ +The ground of primal wisdom +Where the truth beyond all concepts is beheld +Is reached more easily by humans than by gods. +The essence also of the deep path of the Vajrayāna +Is more easily attained by those who find a human form. +The basis of the Dharma of both great and lesser vehicles +Is said to be supremely noble-- +This human state endowed with freedoms and advantages. + +Just like a beggar who has chanced upon a treasure of great price, +Reflect with joy upon your freedoms and advantages. +In doubt and apprehension that you might be dreaming, +Implement the sacred Dharma-- +Source of happiness and benefit in this and future lives! + -- Longchenpa, from "Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind", published + by Shambhala Publications +~ +This lifetime passes like the weeping clouds +Where dance the lightning garlands of the Lord of Death, +And from them, day and night, there falls +An endless rain to bathe the shoots +That grow in the three levels of existence. + +The world and its inhabitants will pass. +The universe is formed and then destroyed +By seven fires, a flood, and then the scattering wind. +The all-encircling sea, the continents, +And even mighty Sumeru compounded of four jewels, +All girded by the rings of lesser peaks--all this will pass. +The time will come when all will have dissolved +Into a single space. +Remember this and practice Dharma from your heart. + -- Longchenpa, from "Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind", published + by Shambhala Publications -- 2.34.1