The Living Journal - The power of the Dakini

A courtesy update, today is the 25th day of the Tibetan  calendar , and it’s the Dakini prayers day according to the Vajrayana traditions.

The Three Roots in Tibetan words known as the “tsa sum”. The secret forms of the Triple Gems refuge formulation of Tibetan Buddhism, which originated in India, formulation from the time of Guru Rinpoche, Padmasambhava. These alternative refuge formulations are employed by those undertaking Deity Yoga and other Tantric practices within the Tibetan Buddhism as a means of recognizing the universality of Buddha nature. 

The functions of the Three Roots are:

· The Outer refuge  – The Guru or Lama is the root of blessing.

· The Inner refuge  – The Yidam is the root of accomplishments.

· The secret refuge – The Dakini is the root of protections and activity.

Dakinis are depicting in a female form and the Sanskrit word is Dakini. In Tibetan its literally means “Khandro”. Khan,  meaning sky and Dro meaning traveling. Taking it together, Khandro means one that can move or travel through the sky or space. It's very important we think about this literal meaning in trying to understand the enlightened Dakinis.

There are many different and levels of Dakinis and the enlightened Dakinis in general can be a guiding light along the path, removing physical and spiritual hindrances and they can play a great part in an individual's attainment of enlightenment.

They are the forces that awaken dormant (hidden) qualities of spiritual impulses or desire hidden in the subconscious. It is the Dakini's inspirational or motivation influence that can open one and remove obstacles, but it is the Wisdom Dakinis that we should be interested in learning about and who we can rely on to truly release us from Samsara. 

Examples of the enlightened wisdom Dakinis:

1] Green Tara

2] White Tara

3] Kurukulle

4] Vajrayogini

5] Singhamukha

6] Machig Labdron

Arya Green and White Tara are the manifestation of the Avalokitesvara, (Chenrizig in Tibetan) (Kuan Yin Pusa in Chinese) both Arya Taras can be functioned and practiced as the form or an enlightened Dakini.

A female practitioner who has attained some capacity to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding and accomplished with some insight skilled of the Buddha nature, but not yet fully liberated and still caught in the cyclic world of Samsara and she is considered to be the earthly Dakini.

Both the worldly and enlightened wisdom Dakinis can have supernatural powers. The Enlightened and worldly Dakinis both can be found in human form as well as in the astral (lunar) form and could have a form of a beautiful fairy-like being or a wrathful and demonic flesh-eating being.

From their look you might think they are evils and the demonic terrifying appearance, but the enlightened wrathful form of Dakinis are the manifestation of the compassion of the Buddha and Bodhisattva who protects the precious Buddha’s teachings and Dharma. Their terrifying appearance is meant to frighten forces of evil.

There are many females Tibetan practitioners who had attained the highest level of realizations and become a highly powerful Tantric Yogini or a wisdom enlightened Dakini and some become an earthly Dakini (Unenlightened Dakini). 

Tsok offering on Dakini day

The Tibetan word of Tsok is tsok kyi khorlo which is literally meant an accumulation or gathering. The Meaning of Tsok is a method for gathering the accumulations of merits and wisdom.  Tsok offering can be performed on the 10^th day of Guru Rinpoche day and 25^th day of Dakini day respectively of the Tibetan calendar. 

* Footnote

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and self-interest. 

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May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

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The Living Journal – Walking the path for ourselves.

I can only show you the way to enlightenment, 

We must walk the path for ourselves.

Quoted by the Buddha.

If you are determined to be drowned, no one can save you.

Quoted by Vladimir Putin 

Life is too short and tries not to wake up the next morning with many regrets. So love the people who treat you right and forget the one who don't.

We must believe that everything happens with a reason, if you happen to get a chance, take it. If it's going to change your life, then let it. In life we must make choices, to take chances; otherwise our life will never make any changes. 

Your happiness is a choice and your life isn't about pleasing everybody. But is about creating yourself. Stay true to yourself and being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it will always get you the right one. 

Always remember this; don't judge my path if you haven't walked my journey. Stop letting people who do a little thing for you, and controlling so much of your mind, feelings and emotions. Yes, other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path, but the lesson to be learned is always ours. 

Life is simple so don't make it so complicated. Life is blessed and stop complaining that life is entirely too short-- but what they don't realize is that for the unfortunate, life is entirely too long. 

Enjoy the little things in life. For one day, you will look back and realize they were the big things. 

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For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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Why Praises of The Twenty-one Taras?

Refuge and Bodhichitta to the Arya Taras 

Namo kon chok kun ngo jet sun mar,

Dag sog dro kun kyap su chi,

Jang chup mon pei sim kye neh,

Zap moy lam la juk par gyl.

Om Jet Sun Mar, Phagma dromala chhag-tshal lo 

(Om Homage to the Venerable Arya Tara)

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA. 

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA. 

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA.

The practice of Tara is said to have many different extraordinary powers of blessing, and is particularly effective in a wide variety of situations. For example, it is said that at the end of an aeon or cycle of time, when hardships and calamities may increase, the mantra and puja rituals of Tara are very crucial. Anyone can recite the prayers of Tara and it brings great benefit.

The Buddha Mahavairochana was the Guru, the spiritual guide, of Tara. Buddha Vairochana blessed Tara and prophesied to her that at the end of the aeon, in those lands and worlds where pujas, prayers, and rituals of Tara are recited, as a result of these prayers, the many diseases, troubles, and disturbances caused by evil spirits and by human beings would be pacified and resolved. I believe that the practice of Tara is one the most important and critical of all practices in such times.

The prayers of Tara, is said that not only diseases and disturbances caused by evil spirits, but also hostility, wars, conflicts and the eight obscurations and sufferings may as well be pacified and resolved by the power of her practice. 

The eight obscurations and sufferings that listed by the First Dalai Lama as follows:-

• The suffering of hatred, which symbolize like the fire,
• The suffering of ignorance, which symbolize like a elephant,
• The suffering of jealousy, which symbolize like a snake,
• The suffering of pride, which symbolize like a lion,
• The suffering of miserliness, which symbolize like a chain,
• The suffering of wrong view, which symbolize like a thief,
• The suffering of doubt, which symbolize like a spirit,
• The suffering of lust/attachment, which symbolize like the floods

All such obstacles and related difficulties can be removed through the blessing of the prayers and mantras of these goddesses.  It is said that these puja prayer rituals and mantra recitations are particularly important when we come to the end of an age or cycle of time. For such times, is widely recommended the practices of Guru Rinpoche, praises of Taras are also extremely important.

In times of the threat of wars, epidemics, conflict, and so on, it is very important that the mantras of Tara be put on prayer flags and hung in the air, as much as people are able to do this. People from all walks of life should do this and say this mantra as much as possible. Along with the prayers of Guru Rinpoche, these practices are the most effective in such times and situations.

One who offers praises to Tara is truly intellectual. Whether early in the morning or late at night, if one offers the praises to the twenty-one Taras, such as offering two, three, and then seven repetitions of the prayer, totaling twelve recitations of the praises to the twenty-one Taras, all wishes can be fulfilled. This is how it is in the Four Mandalas' Ritual of Holy Tara "The Illuminating Lamp". In this puja one repeats the praise twice, then three times, then seven times.

When it is said that all one's wishes will be fulfilled, it means that if you need a child, you'll get one. If you have financial needs, these will be met. Whatever wishes you have, all of them can be fulfilled through praises to Tara.

You only need to recite and practice it, in order to dispel your obstacles. All of your obstacles and difficulties, however many there are, can all be removed and relieved through offering praises to Tara. Through praying to Tara, all potential obstacles are powerless to cause you harm; they are naturally pacified. Nothing can get to you or harm you in any way; you become impossible to pass through.

Certain practices have that strongly emphasized. For Green Tara practice that is the reason why you are not supposed to be eating meat or drinking alcohol before you do the practice. For that reason those practices were tend to be done very early in the morning, before breakfast, before you eat anything , you do the Tara before, that’s the reason why it’s mostly done in the morning. But if you are a vegetarian, then you can do Tara practice any time, all day long, you don’t have to think that Tara should only be done in the morning. 

There is no doubt that Tara is very swift in dispelling obstacles. All the activities of the Buddhas are embodied in Tara, contained in her, complete in her. If you have been empowered by your Guru or teacher to meditate yourself in the form of Green Tara. Your body, speech can be transformed into mantra, your thoughts into wisdom. You are no longer an ordinary being; your body, speech, and mind have been completely raised into the exalted state of Tara herself, into the form, mantra, and wisdom of Tara.

The words of the praises to the twenty-one Taras are not the intellectual composition of scholars. They are spoken directly by Buddha Mahavairochana and Buddha Shakyamuni themselves. Please recite the praise to Tara as much as you are able to in the course of your everyday life. 

If you are unable at any time to recite the praise, try to recite the mantra of Tara:-

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA.

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA.

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SVAHA.

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Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

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The Living Journal – What Live Among Us ?

You can choose to walk passed,

You can choose to ignore,

But you are always having a choice,

Choose your compassion and kindness wisely,

Gratitude is simple yet so mighty.

Have you ever looked for things to be grateful for? Have you always looked for the bad things that happened to you or perhaps you have rather than looking at all the good things that were happening in your life every single day.

Many of us want to be happier, live better, and experience inner peace. Personal development and transformation involve self-discovery your life from within your heart. Thinking that life just isn’t happening to us the way it corresponds to and naturally we start making judgments and blaming others. “Why do these things keep emerging from my life?

If you think the causes of your unhappiness are the people and events surrounding you, you will conclude searching for the explanations. How the external world affects your daily living isn’t the issue, but what you believe and feel about yourself in the relationship to what is going on around you.

The power of gratitude is a feeling of gratitude makes you conscious of what you hold dear and are committed to in your heart. Appreciating the blessings in your life helps you cope with stress and unease by re-structuring life’s problems, putting them within a perception of your destiny. What is more, when you live your life with gratitude, you experience more joyfulness, self-worth and feel more connected to others.

Gratitude doesn’t mean being contented with everything around you. Authenticity requires you recognizing and coming to a place of peace with yourself. Acknowledging the ridged parts of your nature and the shadows of your character and accepting flaws, and letting go of impractical expectations will free you to experience more gratification.

The path of personal growth always involves change. Your journey to life is a dynamic process which includes releasing the tight grip on the past, letting go and moving on from everything that is no longer serving you.

The Power of self-gratitude is when accepting yourself as whom you are, and then you can make a change. Before you can change the events surrounding you, you have to act wisely to embark on changing yourself first. The example will be the life and the teachings of the Buddha.

A simple way you can do is writing a list of gratitude that you are grateful and ungrateful for everyday and stick it into two separate boxes or jars daily for a week. This able to cultivate a profound sense of gratitude and well-being through the act of list making and to observe and scrutinize what are the grateful and ungrateful lists that you have collected and contemplate and reflect upon it. 

This contemplation and reflection are very functional methods that alight your thoughts and positive energy with love and compassion to overcoming your negative emotions and fears of insecurity in your life.   

This helped you to realize that when you are grateful, fear to disappear and abundance appears. When you focus on the things that you are grateful for, it opens you to the source of all those things that came into your life. Gratitude allows you to come into full harmony with the Universe.

The better ways to predict life are to create it and if you are not thankful for what you have, why should you get anything more? Remember these sayings are being authentic included sense of worth and sense of responsibility that helps to nurturing the life that you have chosen. Your authenticity evolves from your obligation, determination and diligence in creating the best individual you are capable of becoming from the impossible to the “I m possible”

Thank you for reading, may you find peace and great bliss. With your support it helps to spread the Buddha’s precious teachings and turning the Dharma wheels in the world.

Aspiration For Bodhichitta

For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen

May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Nagarjuna's Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.

May we liberate migrators from the ocean of existence.

With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.

*Note

I do not own or infringe any copyright of these pictures.

Pictures courtesy and credit to the rightful owners.