Sublime

On the other hand, when skillful means (upāya, thap) manifests in the styles of human men, there is strength, solidity, and resiliency. In contrast to feminine energy, the masculine is obvious and oriented toward the material world of manifestation and action.

The self-cherishing tendencies that we have cultivated so consistently in our lives would love nothing more than to be deified. Perhaps my deeply invested femaleness cultivated through feminist sensibilities might like being a liberated, dancing, naked ḍākinī. But the ritual of Vajrayoginī has safeguards and antidotes for this misguided motivation.

This Work is a school for developing a new center of gravity. Until now the center of gravity around which our life has turned—whether we accept it or not—has been our ordinary “I.” And it is still this “I” that hopes, that evaluates, that judges .

You’ll begin to tune into that subtle energy that in Sanskrit is called shri—best translated as “auspiciousness”—which is one of the gifts of the divine feminine.

INTERVENE.

What does seem important is that they share in common (1) a curiosity about how to practice a quality of leadership education that can more adequately address systemic change on behalf of the common good, (2) an informed respect for the process of human growth and development, and (3) a willingness to take on a mode of working that challenges both

Shakti cannot individuate without simultaneously disguising her wholeness.

The bodhisattva’s aspiration is simple and powerful: “May all circumstances serve to awaken compassion.”

If it is not lived by all the parts of myself, I will remain as I am—passive and wholly at the disposition of surrounding forces.