Jan 07 2009
Mandalas; For healing and meditation.
Mandalas have been used for thousands of years as gateways to other worlds in a spiritual quest for enlightenment. Acting as gateways, mandalas can help the spiritual Seeker gain enlightenment through various practices which include healing and meditation practices.
1. What is a mandala?
The term Mandala originates from Sanskrit, an Ancient language of India and in a light term means ‘circle’ as it is meant to demonstrate a holistic view o the Cosmos or Universe. This is reflected in everything from the Solar System and planets to plant life and other round objects. Originally used in Hindu and Buddhist religious practices Mandalas have now reached Western civilization and have infiltrated into various cultures by way of various communications and traveling Souls.
2. What is a mandala used for?
Mandalas are used primarily as meditation tools to help merge the micro cosmos (self) with the macrocosm (SELF) into one unifying state where enlightenment can take place after the fusio of lower and higher self has taken place. These come in various shapes, sizes and colors and you can even create our own mandala to suit your own spiritual needs or temperament.
In Buddhist traditions some mandalas are painstakingly created from ground precious stones or sand and then destroyed only to prove that even mandalas are just an illusion in the Whole scheme of things. Here is a video from Youtube of Tibetan Monks creating a beautiful sand mandala, enjoy!
Also the picture is depicting an Avalokiteshwara Mandala of exceptional beauty and colour.
Tibetan Monks making Sand Mandala Video:
That’s really pretty. I’m not sure I’d be able to create something that intricate if I knew it was going to be destroyed–creating something that intricate for the sake of creating it, on the other hand, that I can do.
How do they choose their colors? (Sorry if this was answered in the video; my computer and YouTube don’t get along.) It looks like there’s got to be a meaning to it….
nice one!
Have you ever made one in the sand?
I love the fact that they may destroy the beautiful creation after finishing it ~
Reminds me a bit of the artists who paint on the sidewalk… only to have it washed away by the rain.