Wisdom Mandala Shorts
Description: This is a fine mandala for centering and meditation because it's full of DRALA. Drala: the intrinsic magic of each moment in nature that reaches beyond. It's a Tibetan word that can also refer to a guardian spirit, wisdom through common sense, and energy above and beyond aggression. Enjoy and all blessings to you!
Description: Psalm 14 is King David's meditation on the human condition, and the moral consequences of rejecting God. For this design, I hand-lettered the text in my own gothic style script and painted it using the airbrush tool. I created the background shapes using the Photoshop polygon tool. For the spackled texture, I used a stippling brush.
Description: In the ritual practices of Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism, it is recognized that if the practitioner relies only on the recitation of Esoteric incantations and observation of mandalas, it is impossible to reach the realm in which one becomes a Buddha, and for this, it is also necessary to practice the five forms of meditation in order to acquire the five types of wisdom. When Sakyamuni completed the ten steps in the practice of becoming a Bodhisattva, he also entered samadhi. The lower half of this thangka depicts him enduring the disciplines entailing suffering (lower right corner), the second his Esoteric practices (lower center) and debating Buddhist concepts, demonstrating the path Sakyamuni had to follow to acquire the five types of wisdom.
