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    A mandala is a symbolic and sacred circular design with a center focus that represents balance and wholeness. In many spiritual traditions, creating a mandala is a meditative process of journeying inward to one's spiritual center. Traditional Tibetan Buddhist mandalas often take the form of a palace with four gates symbolizing the purification of different aspects of life. Sand mandalas can take several days for monks to create but are ceremonially destroyed after completion to represent impermanence.

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    A mandala is a symbolic and sacred circular design with a center focus that represents balance and wholeness. In many spiritual traditions, creating a mandala is a meditative process of journeying inward to one's spiritual center. Traditional Tibetan Buddhist mandalas often take the form of a palace with four gates symbolizing the purification of different aspects of life. Sand mandalas can take several days for monks to create but are ceremonially destroyed after completion to represent impermanence.

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    A mandala is a symbolic and sacred circular design with a center focus that represents balance and wholeness. In many spiritual traditions, creating a mandala is a meditative process of journeying inward to one's spiritual center. Traditional Tibetan Buddhist mandalas often take the form of a palace with four gates symbolizing the purification of different aspects of life. Sand mandalas can take several days for monks to create but are ceremonially destroyed after completion to represent impermanence.

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    Michele Faia Classes & Workshops

    WHAT IS A MANDALA?

    A mandala is all about the symbol of the center. Mandala, Sanskrit for circle or center, is an ancient symbol used to
    denote a sacred space around an honored deity in which sacred work could be practiced. Traditional Tibetan
    mandalas are called generosities, because from them, it is believed, one may receive many blessings. Psychologist
    Carl Jung brought mandalas into the 20th Century. He showed us how we could paint our own mandalas as part of
    our personal sacred work, what he saw as the realization of our wholeness. He taught us that the self is always
    seeking balance, and therefore, that is why some of us are very drawn to the balance in mandalas. Generally, a
    mandala is a symmetrical design which is circular and contains a center. For an individual, the mandala process is
    one of journeying inward to one’s center, or source, and becoming one with it. A mandala design is a symbol of
    that extraordinary and powerful journey.

    A flower can often be a found in the center of a mandala, Traditional sand mandalas often take the form of a palace
    symbolizing the flowering or blossoming of the spiritual self. with four gates. Each gate, or direction, is symbolic of an area
    This is an early mandala I painted entitled The Flower of in an individual’s life to be purified to reach enlightenment.
    Myself; Multi-colored, Multi-dimensional. I drew and painted In this mandala the center is the home of the gods. Mandalas
    the yellow circle in the middle first. Then I drew the petals are made from sand which the monks grind and color
    around the circle and painted them pink. Each layer I drew themselves. Creating the mandala takes about 4 days or so to
    and painted in this manner, until it felt finished. complete. After completion, in a beautiful ceremony, the
    mandala is destroyed by gathering the sand and placing it in
    a sacred container. The sand is then tossed into a river, which
    I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression symbolizes that everything is impermanent. Monks travel the
    world over to create mandalas in communities for peace,
    of the self, I had attained what was for me the
    locally and globally.
    ultimate.
    -C.G. Jung

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