B28-Lady Machig (Machik) Labdron (1055-1149)

Lady Machig (Machik) Labdron (1055-1149) is a Tibetan Matriarch and Founder of the Chod lineage. She developed a system, the Mahamudra Chöd, that takes the Buddha’s teachings as a basis and applies them to the immediate experiences of negative mind states and malignant forces. Her unique feminine approach is to invoke and nurture the very “demons” that we fear and hate, transforming those reactive emotions into love. It is the tantric version of developing compassion and fearlessness, a radical method of cutting through ego-fixation. We will use as text Machik’s Complete Explanation: Clarifying the Meaning of Chod by Sarah Harding.