Dakas and Dakinis

During the 1980s when I met and was initiated by many Tibetan Lamas in the U.S. and India and Nepal I was told that a male Angel was called a Daka and that a Dakini was a female Angel.

However, I'm not sure now that this directly correlates to a western point of view. Just like many New Age people assume wrongly that Christian Mystical points of view correlate directly to Eastern points of view in some ways, this really isn't true either.

In fact, the best way to look at this is that people are somewhat the same around the world but they are told very different types of creation stories and often those creation stories don't resemble each other at all. So, the ways people think about this from one culture to another are quite different.

But, the other way to look at this that basically all people are the same. They all have to breathe air, eat food, go to the bathroom, have children and protect them so they can grow up etc.

To emphasize subtle differences really isn't important unless someone's life is at stake. Besides, I grew up here in the U.S. and even among Christians both secular, religious or just spiritual non-religious ones there are varying points of view and yet most of us get along fine just by accepting each other on a more secular level ongoing. But, in every group of people there are also extremists because they have been abused in one way or another in life.

I have also have heard Lamas refer to a particularly beautiful female practitioner as a Dakini too because she was beautiful both inside (spiritually gifted) and without (physically amazing) at the same time. So, maybe what they were saying is this female being was inspirational to all beings like an incarnate angel here on earth.

There is also another point that might be important to make:

The didactic materialistic point of view in the western world is:
ONLY the PHYSICAL WORLD IS REAL
Then there is the Australian ABORIGINAL point  of view:
ONLY DREAMS ARE REAL THE PHYSICAL WORLD IS THE ILLUSION
Then there is the Tibetan Buddhist point of view:
Both dreams and the physical world are both equally real and unreal simultaneously all the time.

Depending upon how you deal with all these differences you could wind up in many different kinds of definitions of reality depending upon your point of view.

However, I subscribe to what I would call a "Practical point of view" which is:
If something I'm doing doesn't keep both me and this body alive why should I do it?

So, for me still, "Dakas are male angels and Dakinis are female angels even if I walk by one on the streets. Because maybe you and I are these angels too?