Sublime

As for these women, the dakinis have a gift to present to you too. They offer a feminine model that is fierce, wise, spiritual, and embodied. They give us the energy of the undomesticated feminine; they are not meek or submissive. They are luminous, subtle spiritual energy, the gatekeepers and the guardians of the unconditioned wisdom and sacred ea

Dharmabodhi Sarasvatī.

When we look at the ḍākinī in her four dimensions, we come to see her as not merely a motif in mythology and ritual or a recurring multivalence. She becomes a symbol, the emblem of all the most personal aspects of Vajrayāna practice, integrated in physical manifestation, energetic dynamism, blissful emptiness, and primordial essence in accord with

From a traditional point of view, the ḍākinī is not about women or gender at all, but the power of the realization of emptiness to transform worldly concerns into enlightenment. She is a symbol of the personal subjectivity of every tantric practitioner, blending devotion, renunciation, and awareness into a potent spiritual journey. Part of that jou

In Western communities of sādhana practitioners, gaṇacakra feast offerings have been performed by male and female practitioners together who all understand themselves to be embodiments of the ḍākinī

The encounter with the ḍākinī is the encounter with the spiritual treasury of Buddhism, the experience of the ultimate nature of the mind in its dynamic expression as a constantly moving sky-dancing woman.

Reflecting her yogic roots, however, the ḍākinī symbolizes embodiment in a slightly different way from domestically bound women in most cultures. Her body is beautiful and voluptuous as theirs may be, but it is naked and adorned with shards of bone, skull-cups of blood, and rotting heads, showing her unique relationship with embodiment. She is asso