listened to this song while reading about Ayu Khandro. Highly recommended visual and mental experience... treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Ayu-Khandro-Dorje-Peldron/13139 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayu_Khandro She is known for spending many years in dark retreat, and for her practice of chöd. dark retreat from wikipedia: A dark retreat is a solo retreat in a space that is completely absent of light. Because there is no optical stimulation, one can experience prisoners cinema, commonly known as the lights. The time period dedicated to dark retreat varies from a few hours to decades. chod from wikipedia: The chod practitioner seeks to tap the power of fear through activities such as rituals set in graveyards, and visualisation of offering their bodies in a tantric feast in order to put their understanding of emptiness to the ultimate test Ayu specifically: By the end of her life she had spent more than fifty years in dark retreat After her death [at age 115], it is said she remained in meditation for two weeks and by the end of the two weeks her body had shrunk to a fraction of its original size, a sign of her accomplishment of Dzogchen practice.
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