Alex Wilding

Reminded again and again about this perfection of wisdom, they may become almost intoxicated with its subtle transcendental beauty. As a result of this essentially devotional approach to wisdom, Prajnaparamita also takes the form of a deity and bears the epithet of the mother of all the Buddhas. I include a picture in the comments. Summarising, Reality is ultimately beyond any possible concepts.

Reminded again and again about this perfection of wisdom, they may become almost intoxicated with its subtle transcendental beauty. As a result of this essentially devotional approach to wisdom, Prajnaparamita also takes the form of a deity and bears the epithet of the mother of all the Buddhas. I include a picture in the comments. Summarising, Reality is ultimately beyond any possible concepts.

We can stop there, perhaps reciting the Heart Sutra every day and its mantra, OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BUDDHI SOHA. This mantra can be translated, perhaps more roughly, as OM, gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, awakening, swaha. That last word being a little bit like our men, or so be it.

We can stop there, perhaps reciting the Heart Sutra every day and its mantra, OM GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BUDDHI SOHA. This mantra can be translated, perhaps more roughly, as OM, gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, awakening, swaha. That last word being a little bit like our men, or so be it.

Or, since appearances are indeed here, we can work with them, seeing them not as real things, but as expressions, or it's sometimes even said that they are ornaments of the empty luminous mind. This is of course a more tantric approach. One short answer to the question of what is emptiness is therefore that nothing exists in itself, but neither is there an absence of existence.

Or, since appearances are indeed here, we can work with them, seeing them not as real things, but as expressions, or it's sometimes even said that they are ornaments of the empty luminous mind. This is of course a more tantric approach. One short answer to the question of what is emptiness is therefore that nothing exists in itself, but neither is there an absence of existence.

It is beyond ordinary thinking. So please remember to like, subscribe, tell your friends and all that stuff. And remember a saying whose origin I've actually been unable to identify with complete certainty. It may even be slightly apocryphal, but it does have a good ring to it. Things are not as they seem, nor are they otherwise. Bye.

It is beyond ordinary thinking. So please remember to like, subscribe, tell your friends and all that stuff. And remember a saying whose origin I've actually been unable to identify with complete certainty. It may even be slightly apocryphal, but it does have a good ring to it. Things are not as they seem, nor are they otherwise. Bye.

Hello, good listeners, good morning, good evening, or good midnight. Welcome to this episode of the Double Doge podcast. I'm Alex Wilding, and this week I'm going to have a shot. It's perhaps a little bit of a Don Quixote shot because a lot of people have tried and not done very well. Anyway, a shot at making the meaning of darkening somewhat clear.

Hello, good listeners, good morning, good evening, or good midnight. Welcome to this episode of the Double Doge podcast. I'm Alex Wilding, and this week I'm going to have a shot. It's perhaps a little bit of a Don Quixote shot because a lot of people have tried and not done very well. Anyway, a shot at making the meaning of darkening somewhat clear.

The idea is so complex and subtle, I'm almost bound to fail, but maybe it will be better than nothing. Before that, I must make the usual two comments. Firstly, it really would be helpful to this podcast if you would pause, press the like, follow or subscribe button, whatever there is on your listening platform. And secondly, this episode is being published, first of all, on Podbean.

The idea is so complex and subtle, I'm almost bound to fail, but maybe it will be better than nothing. Before that, I must make the usual two comments. Firstly, it really would be helpful to this podcast if you would pause, press the like, follow or subscribe button, whatever there is on your listening platform. And secondly, this episode is being published, first of all, on Podbean.

If you're listening somewhere else, but you do want to see the comments, the picture, the transcript, anything that doesn't appear on your platform, you will find it all on Podbean. It was fairly early in my involvement with Tibetan Buddhism that I first heard about dakinis. The explanations I could find were vague and unhelpful. There were reasons for that.

If you're listening somewhere else, but you do want to see the comments, the picture, the transcript, anything that doesn't appear on your platform, you will find it all on Podbean. It was fairly early in my involvement with Tibetan Buddhism that I first heard about dakinis. The explanations I could find were vague and unhelpful. There were reasons for that.

The idea is really very complex, woven together of a number of quite varied cultural strands, and there is nothing in Western culture that corresponds closely. Maybe Angel is a vague shot, but it does actually miss the mark by quite a long way. I suspect that many of the sources I consulted at that time were themselves out of their depth in this field.

The idea is really very complex, woven together of a number of quite varied cultural strands, and there is nothing in Western culture that corresponds closely. Maybe Angel is a vague shot, but it does actually miss the mark by quite a long way. I suspect that many of the sources I consulted at that time were themselves out of their depth in this field.

Later in this episode, I'll be mentioning some more specific points, but I think we have to begin by clearing the ground a bit. There are two themes, it seems to me, that it is best to address right at the start. These themes are gender and allegory. Let's take gender first.

Later in this episode, I'll be mentioning some more specific points, but I think we have to begin by clearing the ground a bit. There are two themes, it seems to me, that it is best to address right at the start. These themes are gender and allegory. Let's take gender first.

Whatever form she takes, young and beautiful, old and worn, dazzlingly divine or seemingly very plain, a darkenie is feminine. In a society where patriarchy is totally dominant and unquestioned, the femininity of the darkenie will also not be questioned. As we, however, push or struggle to move away from such patriarchal attitudes…

Whatever form she takes, young and beautiful, old and worn, dazzlingly divine or seemingly very plain, a darkenie is feminine. In a society where patriarchy is totally dominant and unquestioned, the femininity of the darkenie will also not be questioned. As we, however, push or struggle to move away from such patriarchal attitudes…