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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
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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
Devī’s Śaktis Created from her own essence. Sampatkarī from her goad. Aśvārūḍhā from her noose. Vārāhī (a.k.a. Daṇḍanāthā Devī) from her arrows; she is the commander-in-chief who rides the chariot known as Kiricakra. Mātaṅgī from her bow; she is the prime minister and rides the chariot known as Geyacakra. All the śaktis of the Śrīcakra.
Kavitha Chinnaiyan • Glorious Alchemy: Living the Lalitā Sahasranāma
The supreme wisdom ḍākinī who serves as a yidam (iṣṭa-devatā) of the higher tantras is Vajrayoginī, “the personification of vajra emptiness.”55 Yidam is a shortened form of yid-kyi-damtsik, or sacred bondage of the mind. The practice of the yidam deity in her or his maṇḍala is what binds the practitioner irrevocably to the enlightened sanity within
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