From ac793225eb99c8229bbbf142c954854b76d9e1f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 11:18:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune --- infobase/fortunes.dat | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index 8818bdb7..75e2eb7d 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -42147,4 +42147,18 @@ Gangra in eastern Tibet, prophesying that it would be in this location that Dusum Khyenpa would attain complete enlightenment. -- from "History of the Karmapas", by Lama Kunsang, Lama Pemo, and Marie Aubèle, published by Shambhala Publications +~ +One cannot force or grasp a spiritual experience, because it is as delicate as +the whisper of the wind. But one can purify one’s motivation, one’s body, +and train oneself to cultivate it. Because we come from a culture which +teaches us there is always something external to be obtained which will lead +us to fulfillment, we lose contact with our innate wisdom. As the Indian +Tantric Buddhist saint Saraha says in one of his dohas (poems expressing the +essence of his understanding): + Though the house-lamps have been lit, + The blind live on in the dark. + Though spontaneity is all-encompassing + And close, to the deluded it remains + Always far away. + -- Tsultrim Allione, in "Women of Wisdom", published by Shambhala Publications -- 2.34.1