From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 19:13:52 +0000 (-0400) Subject: new fortune. X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1022 X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f6ec1526dce18f43cce2debeafae4718b5cacbf;p=feisty_meow.git new fortune. --- diff --git a/database/fortunes.dat b/database/fortunes.dat index d8ee9934..9b32ca0f 100644 --- a/database/fortunes.dat +++ b/database/fortunes.dat @@ -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" +