new fortune.

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@@ -39097,3 +39097,17 @@ experience] their bare mode of existence dawning in an exposed, resplendent
 manner."
   -- His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, from "The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition
      of Mahamudra"
+~
+The dakini principle must not be oversimplified, as it carries many levels of
+meaning.  On an outer level, accomplished female practitioners were called
+dakinis....  But ultimately, though she appears in female form, a dakini
+defies gender definitions.  “To really meet the dakini, you have to go
+beyond duality,” Khandro Rinpoche teaches, referring to an essential
+understanding in Vajrayana that the absolute reality cannot be grasped
+intellectually.  The Tibetan word for dakini, khandro, means “sky-goer” or
+“space-dancer,” which indicates that these ethereal awakened ones have
+left the confinements of solid earth and have the vastness of open space to
+play in.
+  -- Michaela Haas, from "Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the
+     Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West"
+