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When all of these are unified in the practice of everyday life, one has entered the outer-outer ḍākinī realm, in which the ordinary is extraordinary in its inherent sacredness, and all problems and conflicts are seen as the wisdom display of the nature of reality.
Judith Simmer-Brown • Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
Terma continue to be revealed by tertöns even today, and great contemporary masters such as Dudjom Rinpoche and Khyentse Rinpoche have brought forth important teachings in this way for modern-day practitioners.
Reginald A. Ray • Secret of the Vajra World
Subtle-body yoga is the realm of the outer ḍākinī, in which the energetic body is sacralized and harmonized, creating a link between the visualized maṇḍala and the realm of physical manifestation. The secret-ḍākinī realm is that of naked awareness of the nature of mind, experienced as vast and luminous space pregnant with possibilities.
Judith Simmer-Brown • Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
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
This dialectic of consent and suspicion becomes the essential way in which the full range of the ḍākinī symbol may empower the subjectivity of the practitioner.54
Judith Simmer-Brown • Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism
