From 81051c046fd76bf2c11641b4d3f64c85261d7d22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 18:49:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortunes --- infobase/fortunes.dat | 62 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+) diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 1a09d732..23c5382b 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -43348,4 +43348,66 @@ planet Earth. You are a noble citizen of the boundless field of contingent relationships, pratityasamutpada. -- Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, from "The Logic of Faith", published by Shambhala Publications +~ +It is through the teacher’s blessing that you see +The self-arisen primal wisdom, inexpressible, +Beyond both word and thought. +And in the moment of its seeing, +Timeless are the three times, +No difference separates the future from the past. +This is the Wisdom That Has Gone Beyond; the Middle Way; +The Stilling (of all thought and sorrow); the Great Seal; +The Great Perfection of the quintessential ultimate reality, +That is, the fundamental natural state +Where, from the very first, +Phenomena are all exhausted. +It is mind’s luminosity, +The self-arisen primal wisdom. +Many names it has received, yet all have but one meaning: +Ultimate reality, beyond the range +Of speech, of thought, of explanation: +The enlightened mind, +The space-like nature where saṃsāra and nirvāṇa are not two. + -- Longchenpa, from "Finding Rest in Meditation", published by Shambhala + Publications +~ + Become accustomed to the fact that all we accept or reject, dualistically +affirm or deny (such as enjoyment and disgust, happiness and frustration, +beauty and ugliness, fear and security, sickness and health, enemies and +friends, love and hatred, or whatever), has one taste, thus judgments are +reversed. + +Listen great being: do not create duality from the unique state. +Happiness and misery are one in pure and total presence. +Buddhas and beings are one in the nature of mind. +Appearances and beings, the environment and its inhabitants are one in + reality. +Even the duality of truth and falsehood are the same in reality. +Do not latch onto happiness; do not eliminate misery. +Thereby everything is accomplished. +Attachment to pleasure brings misery. +Total clarity, being non-conceptual, +Is self-refreshing pristine awareness.   + -- Longchenpa, from "You Are the Eyes of the World", published by Shambhala + Publications +~ +The realizations that arise through meditating thus +Are all of the same taste. +They are not manifold; they are not different. +It is like those who come from three directions +And meet together in a single place, +And like the different flowing streams +That join and are as one within a single sea. +Bliss, luminosity, and no-thought— +Whichever of these methods one may practice— +When mental movement comes to complete rest +And in the nature of the mind, the unborn space, dissolves, +The enlightened mind, devoid of concepts +(Whether of existence or of nonexistence), +The sun of fundamental nature, bright and clear, +Will rise up from within. +In this realization, changeless and unmoving, +There is nothing to be added, nothing to remove.   + -- Longchenpa, from "Finding Rest in Meditation", published by Shambhala + Publications -- 2.34.1