The Magic and Enchantments of The Kurukulle Dakini
Kurukulle Dakini 咕汝咕列佛母 or 作明空行母 Kurukulle, she is known as the wrathful standing Red Tara, she is
signifies and magnetizing love, wealth and power with compassionate splendor Dakini literary means enlightened female sky travelers (空行母) An enlightened
female Dakinis she can be a very wrathful and peaceful deities and as well
functioning as practitioner's Yidam.
Kurukulle she is portraits as a sixteen year old teenage girl and her color is red for her magical functions of enchantment and magnetism. She is always appearing in a single faced because she embodies non dual wisdom that is beyond the conventional distinction of good and evil.
Kurukulle a female deity of the Lotus
family, associated with the activity of
magnetizing. She is usually depicted as red in color, in dancing posture and
holding a flowery bow and arrow. She is also one of the Twenty-One Taras mentioned in the ancient Tara teachings.
In Vajrayana that
enlightened activity is spoken of in terms of four modes of activity:-
- Pacifying.
- Enriching.
- Magnetizing.
- Destroying.
Kurukulle Dakini she is represents the Magnetizing and this is her special field, and it is to deploy
that particular quality of enlightenment that a practitioner would undertake
her practice. Her appearance is in a naked form, is to show that she is unconditioned by discursive thoughts. She has four arms, which represented four immeasurable states of mind.
The four immeasurable states of mind
- Immeasurable is signifies of Love.
- Immeasurable is signifies of Compassion.
- Immeasurable is signifies of Joy.
- Immeasurable is signifies of Equanimity.
Her single faced and with three eyes, that signify she can see the past, present and the future. She has five skulls as her crown ornament and wearing a tiger skin skirt to show that she has overcome anger and encircled by a wisdom fire.
She is standing on a sun seat, trampling the corpse of ignorance and she is holding a bow and arrow in the first pair of hands and a hook and lasso in the lower pair.
By practicing the Kurukulle Dakini will be able to magnetize favorable conditions, prosperity, longevity, wisdom, increase our relationship with others, achieve respect and support from relatives, friends , superiors and subordinates and will be able to accomplish the activities of worldly as well as liberation. Kurukulle is the goddess of power and she is included as one of the 21 Taras attendants.
A wrathful Dakini is having its special purposes
for purification, removing obstacles, egoistic, ignorant and etc. The wrathful and peaceful deities, both can be functioning as our
personal Yidam, this is a unique and profound practices for Vajrayana
practitioners.
One who needs to have received the blessing and guidance,
empowerment and transmissions from their Guru. A Guru with his wisdoms will
then choose a particular deity or Buddha, Bodhisattva as Yidam for his or her
student spiritual developments.
*Footnote
Please consult
your Guru or a qualified lineage master for any Vajrayana practices! Should a devotee
even want to start studying and contemplating the Tantric , then it is truly
necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure
that Bodhichitta 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-interests.
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Aspiration For Bodhichitta
May the precious Bodhichitta
arise
Where it has not arisen
And where it has arisen may
it 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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