Stop by Patheos for the second part of my article on Mandalas in the church.
Dear monks, artists, and pilgrims, In ancient times, wise men and women fled out into the desert to find a place where they could be fully present to the divine and to their own inner struggles at work within them. The desert became a place
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission to the Monk in the World guest post series. Read on for Janeen Adil’s reflection and poem about liminality. Thresholds and doorways make for evocative images; as a monk in the world, I am drawn to a
Dear monks, artists, and pilgrims, Today we share the final two audio podcasts of our 7-day prayer cycle on the theme of The Love of Thousands. The theme for morning is on ancestral earth and deep time, honoring that our ancestors are not just our human
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In a Hindu scripture, there is also an exact description of passing through 7 gates in a palace to reach God. There is also quite a lot of mention of mandalas as well. It is really interesting.
Thanks for this comment kigen. Yes, there are lots of wonderful nuances which get left out of a brief article for the web, so nice to explore some of those here, perhaps others in more writing. :-)
Christine, loved taking that walk with you into St. Teresa’s mandala-Castle — and it’s so delightful to see Teresa and Hildegard’s imagery presented together so seamlessly! In Tibetan art I’ve seem some architectural mandalas drafted as squares, which I like a lot. So your photo montage really can work as a mandala — as Jesus says, “in my father’s house there are many mansions.,” and Teresa quotes that too, and describes her castle as ” having rooms above and below and on the sides.”