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Summer Rose 🌹🙂

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Gage Kelsey - Kundalini's Breath

As the kundalini moves upwards you see a bird taking flight. This represents the soul and it’s ability to more towards higher planes of consciousness, exploration and freedom.

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Both these two need fixing, I love British engineering but you do need to be a mechanic to own them 😂 I’m a blacksmith, good with hammer not spanner’s 😉

My Landrover 90, I fitted a 300tdi engine and gearbox. Fabricated the roll cage, side steps and winch bumper. Triumph speed master,all I’ve done to that is ride it 😁

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Question I received in chat: "What exactly is Dakini for you? I've been reading a few things about it, but I would really like to hear your view."

My response:

I realize that "Dakini" has some demonic connotations in early Hindu and Buddhist texts, but that is not how I interpret/use the term. Borrowing a description from wiki: "In Hindu Tantric texts, Dakini is the name of a goddess often associated with one of the chakras or the fundamental elements of the body. In Nepalese and Tibetan Buddhism, Dakini can refer to both what can be best described as fierce-looking female embodiments of enlightened energy and to human women with a certain amount of spiritual development."

My personal Perspective is derived from that last sense of the term: a Dakini is a daughter of Gaia and connected to the Divine Feminine (whereas a Shaman is a son of Cosmos and connected to the Divine Masculine). For clarification, there is no such thing as a purely Feminine or Masculine being - everything, depending on circumstances, can be Feminine, Masculine, both or neither.

To Me, the essence of the Dakini is as a practitioner of the Left Hand Path, as opposed to the Right Hand Path.

Tantric practice encourages us to be in our hearts at all times. That blissful state can be equated to an orgasmic state of being in which heart energy is transferred to all that we experience and do during the day. In tantra this is sometimes referred to as the right-hand path. Certain sects of practitioners achieve this optimum state of being through meditation, yoga, compassionate states of mind, mantra chanting, and celibacy.

In the left-hand path, sexuality is the vehicle one rides to achieve this same blissful state. Sexuality is used as a form of yoga to go to the deepest spiritual levels one can attain. The orgasm is used as the gateway to recognize the bliss state. Once this state of being is recognized, you are able to use that recognition to develop the ability to attain higher states of consciousness that enable you to bring the bliss state to all aspects of life.

When the two paths are blended or ultimately intersect, the possibilities for personal growth expand exponentially, and the duality between the two types of practice vanishes. The orgasm becomes, in essence, a Soulgasm. In practice, the Kundalini awakening and Sahasrara will put You in touch with the majesty of the Cosmos, as Gaia is no longer "Earthbound."

While the Right Hand Path is about observation, stillness, the Left Hand Path is about total immersion - the surrender to a sensation or experience so completely that *everything else is negated.*

Of course, in the end, the Left Hand Path and Right Hand Path meet, because the Paths are like a circle (!), not a straight line. Essentially, all Paths lead up the mountain... and the only one doing it wrong is the person running around telling everyone else how they should do it.

Along the Left Hand Path, a partner is not technically required (even though much Tantric practice, especially sexual ones, do talk about couples). Within everyone is both Light and Dark, Masculine and Feminine - the duality, the Paradox exists *and is ultimately resolved* in each Person individually. Each of Us is everything and nothing simultaneously. This is why the texts and all disciplines ultimately agree: You cannot truly Love another unless You Love your Self, for every Love You express and experience is a reflection of what exists inside You.

Just as Gaia can be wild and destructive in the form of hurricanes and earthquakes, the Dakini is the embodiment of enlightened and often fierce, wild energy. The Dakini is, by definition, free: the Tibetan form of Dakini, khandroma, translates as "she who traverses the sky" or "she who moves in space" and, more poetically, as "sky walker" or "sky dancer."

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Mill weir at Ashford Carbonel on the Teme River 🙂

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First snow of the winter, Arya loves it 🙂

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Ravens nest near where I live, love hearing them call and the sound of their wings whistling as they fly.

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Fire shovel made by me, check out my Etsy shop Blackforge2010

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Wolfs head fire poker 🐺✨🔥⚒

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Molly helping in the forge 🙂

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