Tag: Tilopa’s female teachers

DAKINI DAY OFFERING: Making the invisible female roots and flowers visible, full-colour Kagyu female-inclusive lineage thangka artwork

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"A solitary body is not solitude. Being [mentally] solitary, away from the mental references and concepts: this is the supreme solitude. Even though you were settled in a meditative trance for twelve years , you cannot sever this crude reference, the concept of radishes, so what good will come of going to the mountains?”—-Radish-Curry Cook… Continue reading DAKINI DAY OFFERING: Making the invisible female roots and flowers visible, full-colour Kagyu female-inclusive lineage thangka artwork

‘DAKINI IS TRUTH!’ TILOPA’S ‘OVERLOOKED’ FEMALE TEACHERS AND ENTERING ‘UNCONVENTIONAL’ CONDUCT (TUL-ZHUG)

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"Now you must meditate continuously on the very essence of suchness and the nature of phenomena and mind. To do this you must find some kind of activity to engage in. Previously you were a king, so you have some vestige of class arrogance and this must be destroyed."---Female Mātaṅgī’s instruction to Tilopa to act… Continue reading ‘DAKINI IS TRUTH!’ TILOPA’S ‘OVERLOOKED’ FEMALE TEACHERS AND ENTERING ‘UNCONVENTIONAL’ CONDUCT (TUL-ZHUG)