From 3f6ec1526dce18f43cce2debeafae4718b5cacbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Koeritz Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 15:13:52 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] new fortune. --- database/fortunes.dat | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) 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" + -- 2.34.1