Majamudra

Another mindblowing few days. With our first Acrogreen Tranquilo~ i.e. bodywork/therapeutic flying/ harmonium/ indian sutra chanting/ potluck/ beautiful people/ magical vibes.

An amazing anusara yoga teacher arrived from Amsterdam and gave a weekend full of workshops that opened me up in ways I had forgotten I could open, and clarified many pieces to a few positions that give new life to my yoga practice. Jayendra gave me a 50% discount I believe because I live with him and buy lots of fruit to fill our fruit baskets on the kitchen table. He's leading a four day teacher training. The yoga community here is psyched! I am so grateful to have a teacher!

Juan Pablo (acroyoga co-teacher) gifted me the Buddhist Translation of my name along with Andres Cordero (profe de budismo)... Samantabhadri~~

I am intriged and am learning the idea that everything that comes our way is because of our past actions. We are constantly creating new karma with our present actions. An interesting way of saying that we are never completely in the present. A new take on "be here now," and all the meditations that focus on being present. Hearing this reminds me of the importance of serving others, living ethically and thinking about the ripple effect that we are creating in the world and in our own future.

Samantabhadri is the white one. Wow!~

Samantabhadri is a dakini and female Buddha from the Vajrayana Buddhist tradition. She is the consort and female counterpart of Samantabhadra, known amongst some Tibetan Buddhists as the 'Primordial Buddha'. Samantabhadri herself is known as the 'primordial Mother Buddha'. Samantabhadri is the dharmakaya dakini aspect of the Trikaya, or three bodies of aBuddha. As such, Samantabhadri represents the aspect of Buddhahood in whom delusion and conceptual thought have never arisen. As font or wellspring of the aspects of the divine feminine she may be understood as the 'Great Mother'. Seen differently, Samantabhadri is an aspect ofPrajnaparamita. ^[1]

Samantabhadri is a figure found primarily in the Nyingma or 'Old Translation' school of Tibetan Buddhism. A figure that is nearly equivalent to Samantabhadri in the 'New Translation' or Sarma schools is Vajradhatu-ishvari, who is dark-blue in colour and her consort is Vajradhara.^[2]

Samantabhadri is the expression of a concept essentially inexpressible in word or symbol, the ultimate voidness nature of mind. This aspect of the dakini is beyond gender, form or expression. According to Simmer Brown ^[3] the power of the dakini in all her forms is based on the fact that all meditation practices ultimately point to the Samantabhadri dakini. In her iconography, Samantabhadri is white, the primary symbol of the wisdom aspect of mind - in contrast to her consort who is sky blue, representing limitlessness and formlessness. Like her consort she appears 'naked' (Sanskrit: digambara) and unadorned, representing the essential nature of mind. Samantabhadri is usually shown in yab-yum union with her consort but she is sometimes shown alone, seated in 'lotus posture' (also known as mahamudra) with her hands in meditation posture in her lap.

Yeshe Tsogyal was known as an emanation of Samantabhadri, according to Judith Simmer-Brown in her subtlest form Yeshe Tsogyal was known as "expanse of mahāsukha Küntusangmo [Samantabhadrī], the all-good queen".^[4]