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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
... See moreTsultrim Allione • Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
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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
... See moreJudith Simmer-Brown • Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
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
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Cultivating the inseparable ḍākinī is the essence of the spiritual life of the Vajrayāna practitioner.
Judith Simmer-Brown • Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
Invocation Gaṇeśa-graha-nakṣatra-yoginī-rāśi-rūpiṇīm | Devīm mantra-mayīm naumi mātṛkāṁ pīṭha-rūpiṇīm || I humbly bow to that supreme Devī who is the embodiment of the gaṇeśas, planets, stellar configurations, yoginīs, constellations, mantras, the matrix of language, and sacred sites. –Nityā Śodaṣikārṇava 1:1