Listening with the ear of my Heart

I

love

drawing

Mandalas

although

I don't think my mandalas are very traditional.

I don't care.

I love drawing them.
And I slip into another Zone.

This one is called listening with the ear of my heart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandala

• Mandala has become a generic term for any plan, chart or geometric pattern that represents the cosmos metaphysically or symbolically, a microcosm of the Universe from the human perspective ..... Carl Jung saw a mandala as "a representation of the unconscious self".


• A Hindu temple's ground floor plan often takes the form of a mandala symbolizing the universe ..... the lotus is sacred not only because it transcends the darkness of the water and mud where its roots are, but also because of its perfectly symmetrical petals, which resemble a mandala.


• The visualization and concretization of the mandala concept is one of the most significant contributions of Buddhism to transpersonal psychology ..... mandalas are seen as sacred places which, by their very presence in the world, remind a viewer of the immanence of sanctity in the universe and its potential in his or her self ..... it is a means to discover divinity by the realization that it resides within one's own self.


• Mandala-esque forms are prevalent throughout Christianity: for example, a celtic cross; a rosary; a halo; a Crown of Thorns; rose windows ..... similarly, many of the Illuminations of Hildegard von Bingen can be used as mandalas.


• In Islam, sacred art is dominated by geometric shapes in which a segment of the circle, the crescent moon, together with a star, represent the Divine ..... the entire building of the mosque becomes a mandala as the dome of the roof represents the arch of the heavens and turns the worshipper's attention towards Allah.


• In the West, mandala is also used to refer to the "personal world" in which one lives, the various elements of the mandala or the activities and interests in which one engages, the most important being at the centre of the mandala and the least important at the periphery ..... depicting one's personal mandala in pictorial form can give one a good indication of the state of one's spiritual life