Thank you, Ani, for the link to this book about Dipa Ma. I was going to check it out from a small Buddhist libary at the Yellow Springs Dharma Center in Yellow Springs,Ohio but it was checked out by someone else so I ordered my own copy from Amazon.

Some of the older meditators of the Yellow Springs vipassana group knew Dipa Ma (and Munindraji, her teacher) or know people who knew her. The author, Amy Schmidt, knows people from the Yellow Springs group too. So I had heard about Dipa Ma, but let me say, this book is informative and beautifully written. It brings one energetically close to Dipa Ma.

Apart from the psychic skills she mastered, her loving kindness and simplicity seems to have impacted those around her the most. She was a lay woman who succeeded to the highest goal. That said, near the end of the book, she recommends doing intensive retreats, which she did, in order to achieve the stages of enlighenment and insight.

Another wonderful aspect that Dipa Ma points out, is that she herself simply had faith in the teachings and felt that it had something for her. She didn't study theory and philosophy. She practiced with faith and it carried her to the highest goal. Also, she was not shy to say that she feels women have an advantage in meditation because their hearts and minds are softer and more pliable,

The book has a scarcity of theory and philosophy, is written in simple language, mostly comprised of recollections students had about their interactions with Dipa Ma, and has some questions and answers.

H‍ere is the book link: