Reading Sage: Mandala Coloring BOOK | Happiness + Coloring = Focus

Sunday, October 18, 2015

Mandala Coloring BOOK | Happiness + Coloring = Focus

Mandala Meditation Coloring Books PDF

Mandala Coloring BOOKs | Coloring mandalas and coloring intricate pasterns and designs in the classroom can be a great meditative "Mindful Focus" tool for students. Coloring mandalas can help students focus, calm anxiety, enhance thinking and give students time to unwind emotionally, and they are great for stress reduction.

[PDF]Adult Coloring Book for Mindfulness and Relaxation - Lisa Callinan
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[PDF]Mandala Coloring Book - Kripalu
Mandala Coloring Book. Page 2. © Copyright 2015, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health.

Traditional Mandalas are commonly used by Buddhists as an aid to meditation.
The mandala is "a support for the meditating person", something to be repeatedly contemplated to the point of saturation, such that the image of the mandala becomes fully internalised in even the minutest detail and can then be summoned and contemplated at will as a clear and vivid visualized image. With every mandala comes what Tucci calls "its associated liturgy contained in texts known as tantras", instructing practitioners on how the mandala should be drawn, built and visualised, and indicating the mantras to be recited during its ritual use.

By visualizing "pure lands", one learns to understand experience itself as pure, and as the abode of enlightenment. The protection that we need, in this view, is from our own minds, as much as from external sources of confusion. In many tantric mandalas, this aspect of separation and protection from the outer samsaric world is depicted by "the four outer circles: the purifying fire of wisdom, the vajra circle, the circle with the eight tombs, the lotus circle."The ring of vajras forms a connected fence-like arrangement running around the perimeter of the outer mandala circle.

As a meditation on impermanence (a central teaching of Buddhism), after days or weeks of creating the intricate pattern of a sand mandala, the sand is brushed together into a pile and spilled into a body of running water to spread the blessings of the mandala.

[PDF]Mandalas of joy for children - Mandala Coloring
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