FREE MAGIC DANCE: DISPLAY OF THE SELF-NATURE OF THE FIVE WISDOM PDF

Thinley Norbu | 176 pages | 19 Jan 1999 | Shambhala Publications Inc | 9780877738855 | English | Boston, United States The Realm of the Divine: The and her Sacred Dance

We are shipping to all international locations. Learn more here about our many free resources and special digital offers. Amazon eBook. Apple eBook. Nook eBook. Menu Search. Cart You have no items in your shopping cart. Search: Search. My Account Login. Shambhala logo. Home Magic Dance. Magic Dance. Add to Cart. Apple eBook Download X. Nook eBook Download X. Related Topics Tradition. Details This is a unique and powerful presentation of the teachings of Tibetan on the five elements: earth, water, air, fire, and space. In their gross and subtle forms, these elements combine to make up the infinite illusory display of phenomenal existence. Through teachings, stories, and his distinctive use of language, Thinley Norbu relates how the energies of the elements manifest within our everyday world, in individual behavior and group traditions, relationships and solitude, medicine and art. He explains their links to the five Buddha families and their respective Wisdom Dakinis, and shows how each element relates to our senses, temperament, passions, habits, and karmic potentials. This magic dance of the elements, he concludes, can be transformed through meditation practice and cultivating the calm, vast, and playful state Magic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis consciousness that he calls "playmind. Reader Reviews. Magic Dance Reviews. Reviews from Goodreads. The Display of the Self-Nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis - Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia

If we do not complement you, you become five witches, making us ill and bringing us suffering. Because we cannot banish you, always our fate depends on you. Farmers cannot grow their crops, politicians cannot rule their countries, engineers cannot work their machines, doctors cannot heal their patients, scientists cannot do their research, philosophers cannot make their logicartists cannot create their artwithout depending on your mood. Tibetan cannot chant with cool highland habitIndian cannot sing with warm lowland habitJapanese roshis cannot sit with dark cushion habitMuslim sheikhs cannot dance with bright robed habitMagic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis rabbis Magic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis pray with soft-voiced habit Without depending on your grace. Buddha Shakyamuni cannot rest with Magic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis gaze of his lotus eyes underneath the Bodhi treeGuru cannot play magically with countless sky-walking dakinisLord Jesus cannot walk weightlessly across the waterProphet Moses cannot see the radiantly burning bush, Brahmin Saraha-pa cannot straighten arrows, singing wisdom hymns Magic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis his arrow-maker girl, Crazy saint cannot eat fish and torture NaropaGreatest cannot remain in his cavesinging and accepting hardships Without complementing your purity. You are so patient. Whoever wants to stay, If you don't existCannot stay. Whoever wants to go, If you don't existCannot go. Whoever wants to taste or touchIf you don't existCannot Magic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis or touch. Whatever our actionsYou are always supporting Patiently without complaining. But we ignorant beings are always ungrateful, Stepping on you, Calling you Earth. You are so constant. Whoever wants to be purifiedIf you don't existCannot be purified. Whoever wants to quench their thirstIf you don't existCannot quench their thirst. Whoever wants to hear, If you don't existCannot hear Whatever our actionsYou are always flowing Ceaselessly without complaining. But we desiring beings Are always ungrateful, Splashing you, Calling you Water. You are so clear. Whoever wants to fight, If you don't existCannot fight. Whoever wants to loveIf you don't existCannot love. Whoever wants to see, If you don't existCannot see. Whatever our actionsYou are always glowing Un-obscuredly without complaining. But we proud beings Are always ungrateful Smothering you, Calling you Fire. You are so light. Whoever wants to rise, If you don't existCannot rise. Whoever wants to move, If you don't existCannot move. Whoever wants to smellIf you don't existCannot smell. Whatever our Magic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom DakinisYou are always moving Weightlessly without complaining. But we envious beings Are always ungrateful, Fanning you, Calling you Air. You are so open. Whoever wants to existIf you don't existCannot exist. Whoever doesn't want to existIf you don't existCannot cease to exist. Whoever wants to know phenomenaIf you don't existCannot know phenomena. Whatever our actionsYou are always welcoming Spaciously without complaining. But we ignorant beings Are always ungrateful, Emptying you, Calling you Space. You are our undemanding slave, Tirelessly serving us, From ordinary beings to sublime beings to fulfill our worldly wishes. You are our powerful queenSeductively conquering us, From ordinary beings to sublime beingsInto desirable qualities. You are our Wisdom DakiniEffortlessly guiding us with your magic dance, From ordinary beings to sublime beingsInto desireless qualities. And so, I want to introduce you. In 's past lives she practiced the path for three immeasurable eons. In this life she came to realization just by meeting a realized and receiving a few teachings. Her impure illusory body then arose as perfect body. She dwelt in the three pure states and saw the face of himself. She received the four complete empowerments from the emanated of Tantric . She developed omniscient wisdom in the sutrastantrasoral instructions and teachings. She saw all phenomena as they are and as they appear. She herself attained Cloud of Dharmathe tenth level of a . Niguma released even the subtlest veil to the knowable and became in essence the three bodies of enlightenmentindistinguishable from the Buddha. For her own benefitshe brought to completion abandonment and cultivation. For the benefit of others, she manifested the two form bodies and will continue to do so until Samsara is completely empty. Her foremost disciple was the Khyungpo Naljorwho was born in and traveled to India to receive the full transmission from her. In granting him the empowermentsNiguma also confirmed that not only he, but also all his successors and followers would in the future have the good fortune to receive the blessing of Dakinisencounter enlightened beingsand attain perfect Liberation. Niguma granted the four complete empowerments to the adept Khyungpo Naljor in the emanated Mandala and transmitted the most profound tantrasintimate advice, and oral and written teachings. Niguma gave him the essential pith instructions that would enable worthy disciples to attain enlightenment in one lifetime. She promised Khyungpo Naljor that all disciples and Shangpa holders would go to the of the Dakinibecause this lineage was special above all others. Niguma commanded that for seven generations, these ear-whispered teachings should be only passed on in a one to one to disciple transmission. From her lifetime to this present day, she continues to manifest whatever subtle or more material form is necessary to benefit beings over limitless time. In particular, through her activity and blessingsshe gazes with impartial compassion Magic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis all the holders of the Shangpa Lineage. Khyungpo Naljor was born in a year of the tiger in the southern part of Tibetinto a distinguished family. The clan of the Khyungbeing the same family clan from which the lord of yoginsJetsun Milarepa hailed. Thus, his own name meant "the Yogin of Magic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis Garuda clan. The qualities of Khyungpo Naljor began to manifest while he was still very young. When he was five years old, he told detailed stories about his past existencesand revealed insight into his lives to come, and into the future in general. By the age of ten he excelled in reading, writingarithmetic and both Chinese and Indian astrology. At twelve, in accordance with the tradition on his father's side of the family, he studied the teachings. Later on he practiced Dzogchenand finally, . Then, taking jewels and gold dust to present as offeringshe left for and India in search of teachings. During his journeys Khyungpo Naljor was unconcerned about comforts for himself and endured much hardship. Over the course of seven journeys, he studied with a hundred and fifty sages and fifty great adepts. He adopted four of his teachers as his glorious Root Lamasof these; the wisdom Dakini's Niguma and had received direct transmissions from Vajradharathe enlightened enjoyment body of the sixth Buddha. His other Indian main teachers were MaitripaRahula and Vajrasanapa. They took delight in Khyungpo Naljor and granted him the ultimate oral instructions that cut off all distractions and he practiced single-pointedly. All doubts were erdicated and he obtained both ordinary and extraordinary accomplishments. Khyungpo Naljor established his monastic seat in the Shang valley, which is how the lineage got its name. He passed away at the age of His meeting with Niguma came about in this fashion. After he had received teachings from many great SiddhasKhyungpo Naljor again searched for highly realized teachers from whom he could receive more advanced instruction. The most realized teachers he encountered told him that one with his qualities should seek the great Bodhisattva who was not separate from Dorje Chang in her realization and in the profound teachings she could skillfully transmit. Khyungpo Naljor asked where he could meet such an enlightened being and was told that her presence could manifest anywhere to highly purified beings. Unfortunate beingsthose still caught in emotional afflictionswould find it very difficult to encounter her at all, since she had dissolved her physical formattained the rainbow bodyand achieved the level of Dorje Chang. Every now and again, however, she would visit the most sacred cremation grounds and, leading a host of dakiniswould preside over great ritual feasts ganacakras. There someone might have an opportunity of seeing the great Niguma. As soon as Khyungpo Naljor heard the name of the great dakinihe felt such devotionlike an electric shock, that tears swelled up in his eyes. Immediately he set out to find her at the great charnel ground called Sosaling. As he traveled, he continuously made supplications to the Three Jewels. When he reached the cemetery, he saw above him in space at the height of seven banana treesa female deity bluish in appearancewho wore elaborate bone ornaments and held a trident and a skull. As he gazed at her, he sometimes saw one deityand sometimes many; some were in meditation postureand some were dancing or making graceful gestures. He felt sure that this was the great Bodhisattva NigumaMagic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis began to make reverent prostrations to her, sincerely imploring her for transmission of the teachings. On the day of the full moonNiguma gave Khyungpo Naljor the empowerment and transmission of the teachings of the profound Dream Practice. In the middle of this, she said to him: "Son from Tibetarise! Looking up towards Nigumahe saw that the great being was on top of a golden mountain, surrounded by a vast retinue of dakinis. Down the four sides of the mountain, rivers fell. Khyungpo Naljor wondered out loud if this amazing mountain was truly there or whether he was witnessing a miraculous performance by the dakini. Niguma answered, "When the ocean of samsara is turned over, when all attachment and ego-clinging are totally uprooted, then every place and every thing is covered with goldforming a golden field of non-attachment. The actual nature of samsarathis phenomenal worldis like a play of dreams and illusion. When you have realized experientially that the play of the phenomenal world is nothing but a dreamor is like the illusion created by some magicianthen you have gone beyond the ocean of samsara. This requires the greatest devotion to your Lama. Understand this. Now you must leave here. Go and grasp your dream. Magic Dance: The Display of the Self-Nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis by Thinley Norbu

Tantric techniques :. The term can also be applied to human women with a certain amount of spiritual development. Sometimes she appears as the dharmapalaalongside a guru and . The khandroma, generally of volatile or wrathful temperament, acts somewhat as spiritual muse for spiritual practice. Dakinis are energetic beings in female form, evocative of the movement of energy in space. Dakinis can also be classified according to the TrikayaMagic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis three bodies of . The second is the devatawhich corresponds to the meditation insofar as the devata is the method used for developing the state discovered in the initial realization of the true condition of reality. As a tantric practice, imperfections are utilised to make the vision uninterrupted. Thubten Yeshe explains:. When the completion stage practices have been mastered and we have gained control over our subtle energy winds and so forth, there will come a time when the dakas and dakinis will come Miranda Shawassociate professor of religion at University of Richmondsaid in an interview in"In there is only one word, Dakini. There are only female Dakinis It is an impossibility and a contradiction in terms. Thubten Yeshe clarifies their meaning: "what are dakas and dakinis? Simply speaking they are males and females who possess advanced experiences of tantric transformation and control and are therefore able to increase the blissful wisdom of a highly qualified practitioner". Although Dakini-ten was said to be a powerful Buddhist deity, the images and stories surrounding it in Japan in both medieval and modern times Magic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis drawn from local kitsune mythology. The modern folk belief, often printed in Japanese books about religion, is that the fox image was a substitute for the Indian jackal, but the Magic Dance: Display of the Self-nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis jackal and other black animals are associated with Kali. Those who felt wronged in their village could go to a corrupt yamabushi who practiced black magic, and get him to trap a kitsune and cause it to possess a third party. For details, see kitsunetsuki. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirected from Dakinis. Tantrism Mahasiddha . Buddhahood Bodhisattva . Ullambana Puja. Tantric texts. Symbols and tools. Ordination and transmission. Pointing-out instruction . Buswell; Ziegler, Donald S. Lopez Jr. Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Shambhala Publications Inc. Boston and London: Shambhala Publications Inc. Archived from the original PDF on July 17, Retrieved July 17, Introduction to : The Transformation of Desire. Wisdom Publications. Enlightening Times. Retrieved Feminine Ground: Essays on Women and Tibet. Snow Lion Publications. Tharpa Publications. Karma Chakme's Mountain , Vol 2. KTD Publications. Curzon Press. The fox and the jewel: shared and private meanings in contemporary Japanese inari worship. University of Hawaii Press. Psychology Press. Topics in Buddhism. Outline Glossary Index. . Milarepa . . Gyubum Tibetan canon. Yidam. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Wikimedia Commons. Part of a series on. History Tantrism Mahasiddha Sahaja. Pursuit Buddhahood Bodhisattva Kalachakra. Festivals Ganachakra Ullambana Puja. Ordination and transmission Pointing-out instruction Samaya Vajracharya. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dakinis. Nyingma Padmasambhava.