potent healing energy

Sand mandalas transmit positive energies to the environment and to the people who view them.  Buddhist scripture teaches about the potent energy of the mandala, with its wealth of symbolism and its positive healing properties.

The sand mandala is actually an imaginary celestial palace. Each detail of the structure is symbolic.  The palace faces the four corners of the earth.  Each gate, from each direction, is protected by a fierce gatekeeper.

During meditation, one passes through each gate, having gone through many different symbolic stages.

The creation and destruction of a sand mandala is drenched in potent symbolic ritual.

Buddhist monks chant and meditate to invoke the divine energies of the deities residing within the mandala, while they painstakingly create the mandala with minute grains of colored sand.

The monks then ask for the deities’ healing blessings.   The mandala is eventually destroyed.  The materials used in one mandala are not used again.

A mandala’s healing power extends to the whole world even before it is swept up and dispersed into flowing water—which in turn distributes the mandala’s blessings to all.

The energy of the mandala is present, and absorbed during the ritualistic process of creation and destruction of the mandala, and it is there for all who view it, at any time.  It transcends time/space, as a true creation of energy.

The word Kalachakra means “wheel of time”. This mandala represents the universe around us, within us , and our inner selves/practive.  The palace in this mandala has 5 floors, representing body, speech, mind, wisdom and great bliss.

The ultimate wisdom of the kalachakra deity is the manifestation of human conscisouness.  This is represented by 722 deities in the mandala.

I am inserting this beautiful image of the kalachakra sand mandala.  Please meditate on it, let the mandala “speak to you”.

Absorb its healing energy.

Please share this with others.  In view of the recent devestating earthquakes and tsunami, please receive the healing energy of the mandala, and send out healing energy to those that are suffering at this time.  The Dalai Lama has explained that the deities of the kalachakra mandala create a positive energy for the world, reducing tension and violence.

namaste

(photo courtesy of candy tan)

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