The Mandala The mandala, most simply, is a circle with a center-point. It is a form that has been drawn and used by all peoples who have been aware of their inner centers and experienced life flowing around them. The mandala is a map or diagram signifying the wholeness of creation. It represents the order beneath the change and apparent chaos of our lives, the invisible threads that tie our existence into a living net.The mandala invites us in, pulls us in. in through the gates to it’s stillpoint. There the past and future are irrelevant. We are simply present-NOW. Then it takes us out from the center, out into the ten thousand forms of life. The forms are all accepted and honored as part of the whole. The classic mandala came to its highest realization in Tibet, where every detail related to a symbolic language centuries old; contemporary mandalas spring from a collective language of the psyche. For each of us the mandala is different. The web of life Loving, giving |
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