Magic Dance
The Display of the Self-Nature of the Five Wisdom Dakinis
By Thinley Norbu
“From beginningless time there are no habits in
unconditioned natural mind. Still we create habit by dividing
phenomena from clear space. Inherently, a mirror does not have any
dust. Still, it attracts and gathers dust, which obscures its natural
clarity. In the same way, our pure Wisdom Mind becomes obscured by ego
when we become attached to its pure phenomena’s unobstructed
wisdom display.”
Magic Dance is the nature of the phenomenal world as the
display of the five elements or five wisdom dakinis within the
non-dual space of mind. It concerns the
internal and external aspects of the elements and how separation of
these by ‘divided mind’ is the root of samsara and
suffering. It discusses the manner in which the practitioner learns
to penetrate and dissolve the obstruction of dualistic concept and to
‘recognize the invisible secret essence of all
substance’.
One could say a lot of things about this book and not touch its
beauty and magic. Magic Dance is poetry and Buddhist logic
inextricably joined, because it is fundamentally an expression of
realisation. In some ways it is a traditional Buddhist Vajrayana exposition, but it is one that travels completely
unconstrained by religious or linguistic convention. For anyone
practising meditation in the Tantric or Dzogchen lineages: Read this book slowly. It is like
reading poetry. If you want to see the dakinis dance you have to enter
their time.
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