Dakini Journey in the River of Blessing — A Five‑Week Experiential Study Series

Five Sundays, May 10, 17, 24, 31 & June 7, 10 am - 12 noon PDT

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Join a student-led five‑week, reflection‑based exploration of Volume Three of The Heart of Chö. Each session includes a brief recap of the weekly reading, space for personal reflections and questions, and a short guided sadhana practice.

This series is designed to support students in entering the Five‑Dakini Practice through direct experience, embodied understanding, and alignment with the Ear‑Whispered Lineage. Open to all students who feel called to deepen their connection with the Dakini path. Our focus is not on “learning the sadhana” but on holding space, listening deeply, and allowing your own experience to unfold.

Each week includes:

 A reading assignment

 A few reflection prompts

 A short guided practice

 Optional supplemental texts

You are encouraged to read at your own pace, bring your questions, and share from your lived

experience.

Week 1 — Entering the River of Blessing

Reading: Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapters 1–2

Optional: Appendix 2 — Song of Longing for Dakini

Theme: Lineage, devotion, and direct experience

Reflection Prompts

 Where does lineage touch your body?

 What is your relationship to devotion—ease, resistance, curiosity?

 What part of “Don’t impose concepts on your direct experience” resonates with you?

Week 2 — Preparing the Provision Bag

Reading: Chapter 3

Optional: Appendix 3 — EightLine Praise to Vajrayogini

Theme: Renunciation, bodhicitta, emptiness, and the three convictions

Reflection Prompts

 What does your longing for freedom feel like?

 When has your heart cracked open recently?

 Where do you glimpse emptiness in daily life?

 Which of the Three Convictions feels strongest for you right now?

Week 3 — Crossing the Threshold

Reading: Chapter 4, up to page 138 (Preliminary Practices & Self Generation as Prajñāpāramitā)

Optional: Appendix 1 — Supplication to Machik Five Dakinis

Theme: Refuge, preparation, and the first shift into self generation

Reflection Prompts

How does refuge land in your body?

What part of the preparation felt most alive or meaningful?

What shifts when you imagine yourself as Prajñāpāramitā?

What does “entering the gate” mean for you right now?

Week 4 — Meeting the Five Dakinis

Reading: Chapter 4, page 139-189 (FrontGeneration of the Five Dakinis)

Optional: Appendix 4 — Torma Making Instructions

Theme: Relationship, resonance, and the felt presence of awakened qualities

Reflection Prompts

What happens in you when you imagine the Dakinis in front of you?

Which Dakini’s qualities feel most relevant or alive for you?

How do you experience the shift from self generation to front generation?

What does “everything arises from emptiness” mean in your own language?

What is your felt sense of being seen by awakened beings?

Week 5 — Reciprocity, Offering, and Completion

Reading: Chapter 4, page 189-252 (Branch Practices & Concluding Practices) & Epilogue and Afterwards

Optional: Appendix 5 — Five Dakini Retreat Instructions

Theme: Torma, relationship with seen and unseen beings, and integrating the journey

Reflection Prompts

What does offering mean to you in your own life?

How do you relate to unseen support—ancestral, environmental, psychological, or spiritual?

What arises when you imagine making a sincere request?

Which of the four activities (pacifying, increasing, magnetizing, wrathful clarity) resonates with

your life right now?

How to Participate

 Read what you can; there is no expectation of mastery.

 Share from your experience, not from analysis.

 Confusion is welcome—it’s part of the path.

 Complex questions will be gathered and brought to Khandro-la.

 The sadhana practice will be guided gently each week.

Intention for the Series

To enter the river of blessing together—slowly, honestly, and with curiosity—allowing the teachings to

become lived experience rather than concepts.

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