Dear Subscriber First Name,The name Vajradarshini means ‘she who sees the vajra’, or ‘she who’s seeing is like a vajra’. So what is this vajra? It’s a Sanskrit term with the literal meaning of ‘thunderbolt’. It takes the form of a ritualistic implement, like in the images above, held in the hand and referred to as the ‘diamond thunderbolt’, since it has the properties of a diamond, indestructible, and of a thunderbolt, irresistible. But this is not how my preceptor described my name when she gave it to me. She was much more down to earth. She explained that the vajra in my name pointed to ‘the facts’. What is. A bit of a comedown, you might think? When I could have had a name that meant ‘she who’s seeing is like a diamond thunderbolt’, I wind up with ‘she who sees the facts’. It turns out that, the facts, being with what is, is at the heart of the creative process. READ MORE IN THE ARTICLE BELOW
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