Living Mandala

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Living Mandala is a guide to deepening practices beginning with the most coarse and gross life energy to the subtlest and super subtle aimed at integrating a variety of paths into the greater path of effortless being ; which unifies and fulfills all paths. The mandala is a beautiful tool for visualizing experience as a changing variety of colorful shapes and objects which ultimately return and arise from emptiness; while they dance upon it.

“Whenever clouds gather, the nature of the sky is not corrupted, and when they disperse, it is not ameliorated. The sky does not become less or more vast. It does not change. It is the same with the nature of mind: it is not spoiled by the arrival of thoughts; nor improved by their disappearance. The nature of the mind is emptiness; its expression is clarity. These two aspects are essentially one's simple images designed to indicate the diverse modalities of the mind. It would be useless to attach oneself in turn to the notion of emptiness , and then to that of clarity, as if they were independent entities. The ultimate nature of mind is beyond all concepts, all definition and all fragmentation.”

-Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“Joy and Sorrow, Pain and Pleasure , Gain and Loss ; all at play as utter illusion if recognized by their common source which transcends preference.”

Johnny Morrow