thank you joe... i have seen tib. monks do the sand mandalas... at art gallery of n.s.w...once... they do follow are pattern handed down from generations... with me it's just the spur of the moment... it just happens..flows through my fingertips..i began creating mandalas as a child... having no idea what they were...the colours i used all had special meaning to me..and i gave my colours their own names...this practise went all awash when i did high school art..and you are sort of forced fed as to what is art is and what is not...art school was no different..took me years and years to get back to my origins... .at least i came through so to speak i think we are of like mind...merle
Merle, May it go well! I've sometimes watched Tib. monks making the great sand mandala once per year during the Kalachakra ceremony. Fascinating way of making it. And then of pouring it all back in the can after the ceremony's done (but not for re-use, since all the colors are then mixed)! Dalai Lama was a great friend of my Shifu, and vice-versa. I saw the Dalai Lama three times at big venues in New York City. He also appeared here in Tucson and gave a three-day teaching, but by then, I was ready to let him come and go because my attention was on our Zen sangha in town. Then, my shifu met with him for a three-day conference in New York, May 1-3, 1998. Many of us took part. A slim book came out of it: H.H. the 14th Dalai Lama, and Venerable Chan Master Sheng Yen, MEETING OF MINDS: A DIALOGUE ON TIBETAN AND CHINESE BUDDHISM, 1999; Dharma Drum Publications, New York. --Joe > Merle Lester <merlewiitpom@...> wrote: > > joe...this is what tipped me into bliss just for a few golden moments.... > this chant and doing my drawing .".cosmic"..which i have been working on for > months now
