Mandalas express the plentitude that lies within the soul
An affluence of shapes
A wealth of colors
A well of prayers and blessings
A Circle of Spiritual Power
is Created
Humans have revered the circle since time immemorial. The circle is a perfect form.
The holy shapes of the square, the circle and the point, were correspondingly taken to symbolize the male, the female and the creator.
According to the Kabbalah, the circle represents the presence of God in the physical reality of our lives.
The nearer one approaches the center of the circle, the closer one comes to the inner essence of one’s being, the innermost point that is known as "Chi” in the teachings of the East, and is the point of our connection with our Creator – a direct connection without mediators.
The circle is a powerful tool for bridging between the physical and the metaphysical, bringing us in touch with that inner point of spiritual power capable of transforming our entire being and life.
Jung, the renowned psychoanalyst who was the first in the West to point to the power of the Eastern Mandala, spoke of the Mandala as a mirror of the soul.
The process of creating a Mandala is one of meditation in motion. thus combining the beneficial influence of two modes of being:
Meditation – An inner introspection that provides deep empowerment; and
Motion – The natural expression of our body's energy, which is a measure of our vitality.
Meditation arises thorough the body's creative movements.
The Mandala connects us to the very core of our being and to our body in its entirety, down to the very DNA of each and every cell within it.
Mandalas do not emulate nature but express it.
The creation of a Mandala expresses the very nature of the creator.
When one comes to create a Mandala: There is no preset goal
There are no errors
There are no comparisons
There is no competition
There are no fatal decisions
There is no criticism
The dimension of time does not exist
Like the circle itself, the process has no beginning, middle or end.
Like the circle itself, the process is soft, embracing and pleasant.
Like the circle itself, the motion is primal, basic, simple, right and true.
Like the circle itself, there is perfection, calm and motion.
“Consciousness keeps intervening with greater and greater frequency, interfering, assisting, correcting, refusing to let the product grow and develop without coercion. The key is to let things happen" - C. Jung.
The circle in Kabalah
According to Kabbalah, the circle is represented by the Hebrew letter, "ñ" which symbolizes the Torah in its entirety. All is equal in the circle and the circle represents God's infinite light that "encircles all worlds".
The circle symbolizes man, who can exert freedom of choice in achieving higher and higher levels of awareness and coming closer to God, at the very center of the circle.
In the book of Genesis, the letter "ñ" appears for the first time only in the second description of creation, within the word "encircles" referring to the river that "encircles all worlds".
The circle's "end is its beginning and its beginning is its end" - the endless movement of existence. All is equal in the circle of life, and there is room for all.
According to the Zohar , the creative consciousness exists in three dimensions: time (the point at the center), soul (the line-circle) and place (the area of the square).
The square - The page - represents space, the family, work, the environment, etc. It is the world in which we act. The circle - the drawing of the Mandala - represents the soul, the "I", my personality, my essence, my body, my actions, my being. The point - the center - is time, Chi, our divine soul, the center of our energy.
These three elements are the root of every Mandala and contact with their deep significance instills meaning into the creative process and into life itself.
When one makes Mandalas, one experiences, changes and lives life from a place of free choice and empowerment.
Meditation in Movement
Mandala making frees our thoughts.
The "inner chatter" subsides as our hand moves.
These circular movements set our physical systems in motion.
As a stone thrown into still waters creates outwardly expanding ripples, so the circular movement of our hand sets up vibrations in our body that release the center and bring calm and peace to our entire body.
Meditation in motion bridges between our subconscious and reality. It is internally introspecting external movement.
The hands work and the mind is busy choosing colors and creating shapes. Gradually the forces are released and decorations spread over the page.
Spirals and curves, twirls and swirls, drops and words roll out from within. Emotions, sensations and memories come flooding, releasing us and calming.
Sacred Forms
The spiral is the root of all forms.
The spiral is a two-dimensional description of endless movement.
The spiral generates all cosmic processes.
Spiral is the motion of Galaxies, water, sound…
The spiral creates the circle.
In the meeting of spirals, new forms are made…
Triangles, hexagons and stars
Endless spiral motion gives rise to forms that are Sacred Creation
'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?' Actually, who are not to be? You are a child of the Universe. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing so enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of god which is within us. It is not in just some of us, it is in all of us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others. -
