Mandala making: Lived experiences and reflections of my co-workers 25.04.2021 - Mountain Province Philippines - Pressenza IPA Mandala writing workshop during the UN Universal Children’s Day Celebration, Sunken Garden of the University of the Philippines (2019). Organized by Sandiwa and other partner organizations. Photo credit: Madelyn Gonzaga Caadan
SPIRITUALITY (Third of a Series)
by Genevieve Balance-Kupang
Creating mandalas is intentional, serial, imaginal, and relational. It offers a method, a process, and a potential for integrating unconscious dynamics into awareness and as an expression of one’s being and spirituality. It facilitates individuation, a Jungian term for becoming one’s authentic whole Self in relationship to the Transpersonal Power.
Mandala as a symbol of the self, spirituality and wholeness 11.04.2021 - Mountain Province, Philippines - Pressenza IPA
SPIRITUALITY
by Genevieve Balance-Kupang
Mandala is a Sankrit word that means “sacred or magic circle.” Babies as young as seven days old prefer seeing this primal shape known to man more than any other shape. In Asia, among Buddhists and Hindus, mandalas are circles symbolically designed to represent the cosmic order. Mandalas have some expressions of it in most diverse religions and indigenous traditions throughout the world as universal articulations of the human heart to be whole and achieve harmony and peace in one’s being, and wholeness within creation.