Dive into the "DAKINI JOURNEY"

Recently in Patan (Kathmandu valley) I was on the hunt for a statue of I was not sure what, mainly Vajrayogini but I was open to other possibilities. After a long day looking I decided to go to a cafe for some sustenance and there was a little shop in the alleyway I hadn't seen before. I found this

Heartbreak – I grew up listening to Elvis crooning about lost love and the resulting loneliness in “Heartbreak hotel” and then my own experiences after an emotional breakup, or something tragic, and crying, weeping, “Oh no, my heart is broken”... The pieces of my heart, exposed and shattered. My ha

Ferocity is what brought me to Dakinis Whisper. It was Chö, which seemed such a ferocious practice when I first read about it in Khandro-la's aricle in Lion's Roar. It grabbed my heart. It still does. Perhaps it awakened and still awakens the ferocity within me.. Growing up afraid of any fierce-n

The word frightening - something that causes fright, or fear. Fear of facing our darkest, deepest and most ignored demons or traumas? Fear of what gets stirred to the surface? Fear of the changes that result when we embody that which brings those very fears to the surface? Ferocious and Frigh

During 6 weeks in Kathmandu and Langtang Valley I have had intentional and surprise encounters with Vajrayogini - like a huntress she has been my ‘game’. An elusive quarry that sometimes I have glimpsed - or thought I had.…. This past week, I visited 5 temples dedicated to her in Kathmandu Valle

I woke up with Vajrayogini's mantra echoing in my head and my room glowing with a deep orange light despite the closed blinds. I got out of bed to see a beautiful autumn sunrise, both warm and cold at once. Even in the few moments it took to open the blinds and take pictures, the sunrise shifted, g

Last night I found myself holding up a square of extra creamy milk chocolate. I offered it to Vajrayogini and then the blissful thought arose! Ah! How fun is this! Tasting the chocolate of the divine essence of Dakini~*

Today was the last gathering for this Dakini Journey and it was so uplifting! We shared our experiences and the creative projects inspired by them. I was astonished and deeply moved by each of our different experiences and expressions in poems, as story telling from the opera to japanese tea ceremon

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This is about "Why Five Elemental Dakini Practice? - Interview Series" an excerpt from the interview with Khandro-la about her new book "Dakini Journey - In the Contemporary World - The Heart of Chö - Volume Two."

Yesterday we celebrated the publication of Khandro-la's new book! As one of the key student editors, she asked me to share about my experience of working with her on this book. She said something like…..”you can speak of your horror and your joy, perhaps!” I chuckled to myself thinking, how does she

This is an excerpt from the interview about my new book "Dakini Journey - In the Contemporary World - The Heart of Chö - Volume Two."

What is fierce compassion in this life? Do I do enough to awaken? Do I love enough to do what it takes to ease the pain of another? Or is this life so filled with self absorbtion, that I brush over their pain with my deniel of their experience/existence? Can I breath anothers breathe to truly feel

At the end of todays New Dakini Path we turned back to the topic of heart break. A physical feeling as well as an emotional one. A misunderstanding made me ask the question 'Why would we want to stop the heart beaking feeling?' We discussed heart break as an opening to compassion and how it can be p

Awakened fierceness and wrathfulness are not the same as the human emotions of anger or revenge etc, they are just, and just the response to a condition. I am thinking of the recent earthquake in Japan - as having combined wrathful qualities of Vajra, Ratna, Padma and Karma Dakinis or water, earth,

With the blazing eyes of Dakini, I see clearly all the suffering in the world. I wrap my arms around every living creature, and from the depths of my heart, I gather all their suffering and bring it directly into every kernel of my own heart. I hold it there. I breathe it in. I weep. The tears are p

Today I forgot it was Dakini Day yet managed to find myself in the 4th of 5 Vajrayogini Temples I am visiting in Kathmandu. I was wondering what was special about the day when I arrived and there was this ceremony happening. This the "Bajrayogini Temple at Sakhyu, a Tantric Buddhist temple located

I have been thinking and feeling a lot around the river of blessings lately and making some artworks with the idea. Connecting drops of water 💧and drops of golden nectar. Yesterday sitting in a prayer room watching a 'fake' butter lamp flame I saw the drop become the flame 🔥. It was a lovely real

Today as we set out on the new DAKINI PATH - An Integrative Pilgrimage to VAJRAYOGINI in the Contemporary World - I glanced down at my table to see the refraction of light through my glass of water. I thought ohhh could this be an expression of the Vajrayogini's subtle body? I took a photo and had a

During Dakini practice the other day, I thought I would take a closer 'look' at the garland of 50 freshly severed heads that I was visulizing dangling from my neck. Freshly severed - dripping blood and lymph... Fresh - no decay writhing with discursive emotions the heads, hair tangled together in a

This is about "Why Did You Choose To Teach Dakini? - Interview Series" an excerpt from the interview with Khandro-la about her new book "Dakini Journey - In the Contemporary World - The Heart of Chö - Volume Two."

Well after mixing up time and missing the 1st sharing meeting I thought to share this way instead of my very visceral experiences this week of entering Ratna Dakini in the form of cave visits in Northern Spain and Vajra Dakini making her presence loud and clear as the shaper of the earth and the end

This is about "How Was "DAKINI JOURNEY" Born?," an excerpt from the interview with Khandro-la about her new book "Dakini Journey - In the Contemporary World - The Heart of Chö - Volume Two."