[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Consort of All the Buddhas

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

July 16, 2008

Of interest to readers: This coming Sunday, July 20, there will be a 
ceremony to install 3,000 gold CDs of Chogyam Trungpa's teachings in 
the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya at Shambhala Mountain Center in 
Colorado. This is the Speech Empowerment of the Stupa, which also 
contains the body relics of Chogyam Trungpa. A procession of 100 
people will carry boxes containing the CDs up to the Stupa where a 
blessing will be conducted by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. The assembled 
students will do a practice that Chogyam Trungpa wrote in 1978, The 
Sadhana of Mahamudra. For my blog about the event, and eventually 
photos, go to: 
http://chronicleproject.com/speech_empowerment/speech_empowerment.html

CONSORT OF ALL THE BUDDHAS

Shunyata, which is emptiness or openness, is also described in terms 
of the feminine principle -- as the consort of all the buddhas. 
Prajna, or discriminating awareness, is described in terms of the 
feminine principle too -- as the mother of all the buddhas, she who 
gives birth to the very idea of enlightenment. This very notion of 
enlightenment was started by her, by prajna. But she who made the 
buddhas speak, communicate, is shunyata. This is because with 
shunyata there is a lot of room, openness, groundlessness. Therefore 
there is no fear of communicating with students, just as Buddha 
communicated with his disciples. In the situation of groundlessness, 
no one is standing on any ground, so communication can take place quite freely.

 From "Choiceless Awareness," in ILLUSION'S GAME: The Life and 
Teaching of Naropa. Page 89.

All material by Chogyam Trungpa is copyright Diana J. Mukpo and used 
by permission.

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