silent protest as the Gyuto Monks make a mandala

Remembering my dear friend Kim Bower who was taken by cancer in 2002. Kim drew these mandala during her last months when she found it very difficult to do anything. Music: Roger's version of Wiel Elise   more...Plukke Blomster Til Mar. Originally added: Oct 23, 07  less

http://suprememastertv.com/ - Mandala, Spiritual Art Form for All the Ages, Episode 696, Air date: 10 - August - 2008

These are photos of the dismantling ceremony for a Tibetan Buddhist sand mandala. The mandala was made over several days by one monk, with some help from others (I was fortunate enough to participate   more...briefly). Each color is layed onto the image by tapping colored sand out of a funnel a few grains at a time.

This is a briefly narrated version of the finished mandala and dismantling.  less

Full of Eastern Promise )O(

At the grand reopening of the Phoenix Art Museum

Listen to the "Sound of healing" of stereo sound.
This sound makes alpha wave in your brain by resonance effect.
Use stereo headphone.
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Listen to the "Sound of healing" of stereo sound.
This sound makes alpha wave in your brain by resonance effect.
Use stereo headphone.
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Turning Meditation, Fan and Banyan tree

This is the music video for Gift Tax cover preformed by Cameron Menzies and my Mandala. Copyright Cameron Menzies 2007. It was recorded at Sketchy recording Studio at Sterling Productions Alma Ontario   more...Canada  less

Filmed April 10th 2007, at a Buddhist shrine in Chichester, this video tells the story of a sand painting born only the day before.

In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the Mandala is brought to an end, honouring   more...the Buddhas teaching of 'impermanence' : that all things arise and fade away - that all things are temporary in nature.

In the video you will see many members of the local and visiting Tibetan Buddhist commuity contributing to the growth of the mandala, including the special guest Dr Akong Tulku Rinpoche.

Many thank you to David Mackenzie-Dewhirst for his kind help and guidance in making the mandala, and should anyone like to enquire further about sand mandalas or other therapeutic artforms he practices, he can be contacted at:

www.artmatters.nhs.uk

The word Mandala is sanskrit and litterally means 'Circle' & 'Center', it suggests the notion that any centre is tied to it's circumferance, and that any circumferance is always determined by it's center, together they represent a wholeness.
The Making Of The Mandala:
Traditionally, the sand for madalas is made by crushing precious and semi-precious stones such as coral and turquoise amber etc, but this is no longer done. The sand is dyed using vegetable dyes or opaque tempera or acrylics, it is applied to the mandala disc (base) with a narrow metal funnel called a 'chakpu', which is tapped against to cause sufficient vibration for grains of sand to trickle out of its end. Stray grains of sand are moved back into place with small brushes, no adhesives are used to maintain the position of the sand.

Mandala's to Promote Health & Healing:
There has been medical research to show that the bodies immune system and innate healing ability are enhanced when we are relaxed, creativity appears to trigger the bodies relaxation response, promoting one's own health and healing and increasing stress reduction.
Finally:

In the dismantling of the mandala one should remain in the same relaxed and meditative state of mind, as in its creation. Mandala's can help us to understand that all things are impermanent and exist only in relation to, and in independence on other things.

The Kagyu tradition is one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism. It is reknowned for its emphasis on meditation as embodied by such great masters as Marpa, Milarepa and Gampopa, whose example inspired people throughout Tibet.

The supreme head of the Kagyu lineage is the Karmapa.
Kagyu Samye Dzong London is a branch of Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, a Buddhist Centre which was established in 1967 and now has branches worldwide. Kagyu Samye Dzong London is under the direct guidance of Dr. Akong Tulku Rinpoche and Ven.Lama Yeshe Losal, whose lives and activity are an endless source of inspiration for the thousands of people who come into contact with them every year. They are known for their tireless efforts in preserving the purity of the Buddha's teachings, and the Kagyu lineage in particular and they visit Kagyu Samye Dzong London regularly giving teachings, guidance and empowerments. The day to day guidance of the centre is by Lama Zangmo.

More information here:
http://london.samye.org/london/  less

Terence McKenna With Sasha Shulgin.

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Hindu art, unlike Buddhist art, shows the human figure curved, voluptuous   more...and filled with potential motion. Parvati below is shaped and dressed (only in jewelry to emphasize her sexuality and a crown) like the Yakshi. Ganesha, the elephant-headed god in the center, is corpulent, the result of "good living." Vishnu on the right is portrayed with a fit, but soft body, and with four arms to show his many powers.

The Indian artist had an entirely different starting point. He considered that the perfect human animal was an inadequate symbol for the beauty of the divine nature which comprehended all human qualities and transcended them all. It was only by meditating on the Ultimate Perfection that the artist’s mind could perceive some glimmer of the beauty of the Godhead. Mere bodily strength and mundane perfections of form are never glorified in Indian art. Indian art is essentially idealistic, mystic, symbolic, and transcendental. The artist is both priest and poet. In this respect Indian art is closely allied to the Gothic art of Europe – indeed, Gothic art is only the Eastern consciousness manifesting itself in a Western environment. But while the Christian art of the Middle Ages is always emotional, rendering literally the pain of the mortification of the flesh, the bodily sufferings of the Man of Sorrows, Indian art appeals more to the imagination and strives to realize the spirituality and abstraction of a supra-terrestrial sphere.  less

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Saying any word produces an actual physical vibration. Over time,   more...if we know what the effect of that vibration is, then the word may come to have meaning associated with the effect of saying that vibration or word. This is one level of energy basis for words.

Another level is intent. If the actual physical vibration is coupled with a mental intention, the vibration then contains an additional mental component which influences the result of saying it. The sound is the carrier wave and the intent is overlaid upon the wave form, just as a colored gel influences the appearance and effect of a white light.

In either instance, the word is based upon energy. Nowhere is this idea more true than for Sanskrit mantra. For although there is a general meaning which comes to be associated with mantras, the only lasting definition is the result or effect of saying the mantra.

The human consciousness is really a collection of states of consciousness which distributively exist throughout the physical and subtle bodies. Each organ has a primitive consciousness of its own. That primitive consciousness allows it to perform functions specific to it. Then come the various systems. The cardio-vascular system, the reproductive system and other systems have various organs or body parts working at slightly different stages of a single process. Like the organs, there is a primitive consciousness also associated with each system. And these are just within the physical body. Similar functions and states of consciousness exist within the subtle body as well. So individual organ consciousness is overlaid by system consciousness, overlaid again by subtle body counterparts and consciousness, and so ad infinitum.

The ego with its self-defined "I" ness assumes a pre-eminent state among the subtle din of random, semi-conscious thoughts which pulse through our organism. And of course, our organism can "pick up" the vibration of other organisms nearby. The result is that there are myriad vibrations riding in and through the subconscious mind at any given time.

Mantras start a powerful vibration which corresponds to both a specific spiritual energy frequency and a state of consciousness in seed form. Over time, the mantra process begins to override all of the other smaller vibrations, which eventually become absorbed by the mantra. After a length of time which varies from individual to individual, the great wave of the mantra stills all other vibrations. Ultimately, the mantra produces a state where the organism vibrates at the rate completely in tune with the energy and spiritual state represented by and contained within the mantra.

At this point, a change of state occurs in the organism. The organism becomes subtly different. Just as a laser is light which is coherent in a new way, the person who becomes one with the state produced by the mantra is also coherent in a way which did not exist prior to the conscious undertaking of repetition of the mantra.  less

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Sound is a powerful, primitive force. For centuries, healers have intuitively   more...used the therapeutic powers of sound. In the native traditions of ancient cultures, examples of sound and vibration--as elemental in creation and to wholeness--abound. Many tools have been used since the beginning of time to create music, and to aid healing: planetary gongs and Tibetan bowls, didgeridoos, rattles and drums. Today, a growing number of modern practitioners are rediscovering sound as a tool for healing and realignment. More modern sound therapy tools are--tuning forks, chimes, resonator plates, sound discs, and sound tables. All play an important role in healing. Sound is that which is produced when some object is vibrating in a random or periodic repeated motion.  less

Intuitive Sine is a healing audio and visual meditation with a moving mandala and frequency 741 Hz. The frequency associated with intuitive states, non linear knowing and awakening intuition.
Intuitive   more...Sine also has frequencies; 417 Hz, 528 Hz, 639 Hz and 852 Hz.
However; 741 Hz is the dominant frequency.

Listen with stereo headphones for low Theta brainwaves

The Solfeggio Scale and note names;
1. UT...396 Hz (Center Pillar of the Tree)
2. RE...417 Hz (Left Pillar of the Tree)
3. MI...528 Hz (Right Pillar of the Tree)
4. FA...639 Hz (Center Pillar of the Tree)
5. SOL...741 Hz (Left Pillar of the Tree)
6. LA...852 Hz (Right Pillar of the Tree)

UT - 396 Hz -associated with releasing emotional patterns after: see RE-417Hz below.

RE - 417 Hz -associated with breaking up crystallized emotional patterns

MI - 528 Hz - relates to crown chakra; Dr. Puleo suggests an association with "DNA integrity" Transformation and Miracles

FA - 639 Hz - associated with whole brain quadrant interconnectedness. Connecting Relationships

SOL - 741 Hz - associated with intuitive states, non linear knowing and awakening intuition

LA - 852 Hz - associated with a pure love frequency: unconditional love and returning to Spiritual Order


"Audio by Jandy the Decibel Jezebel"  less

A meditation for breaking up crystalized emotional patterns, undoing situations and facilitating change. Resonare Fibris; music and Solfeggio frequency 417 Hz.

The second tone, "RE" - short for   more..."resonare fibris" or resonance - also correlates mathematically to 144,000.

The Solfeggio Scale and note names;
1. UT...396 Hz (Center Pillar of the Tree)
2. RE...417 Hz (Left Pillar of the Tree)
3. MI...528 Hz (Right Pillar of the Tree)
4. FA...639 Hz (Center Pillar of the Tree)
5. SOL..741 Hz (Left Pillar of the Tree)
6. LA...852 Hz (Right Pillar of the Tree)

Music by Jandy the Decibel Jezebel (less)  less

This video presents some of my intuitive artwork - for other artwork, please go to: www.HighlySensitiveArts.com/blog As an highly sensitive (hsp) or intuitive artist I paint the language of light - intuitive   more...art, mandala`s & I also compose music for my paintings. From time to time, I do performances, in which live dance, music and art projections make your hearth longing for more ;-)

Highly sensitivity is also known as `hsp`- in this context, I like to refer to `highly sensitive person` (hsp) in a sense of being highly sensitive for creative energy ;-)  less

A lively video featuring artist Charles Gilchri... (more)

A slide show of some of my likes, backed by my most recent (as of Oct 2007) composition called "Fire and Ice". Photos by myself and unknown others, artwork by Michael Cartwright of Modern Arts.

Creating a web of life Mandala and how this spiritual art project ties into the concept of Nierika.