Chokma is a Chickasaw word meaning 'good'. I am a student of the Buddhadharma living in a small community in middle Tennessee. The land we occupy was ceded by the Chickasaw tribe in 1816.

5th March 2010

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The Dakinis

















There are to be seen countless dakinis:
some of them have eyes that dart out sun rays;
others give rise to thunderclaps and ride water buffaloes;
others hold sabres and have eyes which inflict harm;
others wear death’s heads one above the other and ride tigers;
others wear corpses and ride lions;
others eat entrails and ride garudas;
others have flaming lances and ride jackals;
others, five-faced, are steeped in a lake of blood;
others in their numberless hands
carry many generations of living beings;
others carry in their hands their own heads which they have severed;
others carry in their hands their own hearts which they have torn out;
there are others who have made gaping wounds in their own bodies
and who empty out and devour their own intestines and entrails;
there are others who hide and yet reveal their male or female sexual organs,
riding horses, bulls, elephants.

~ Padma bKa’i Thang,

The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava, The Sojourn in the Cemetery of Chilly Grove, c. 22, Dharma Publishing, 1978

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