Teaching weekend with our German Sangha: Mandala principle - the profound structure of being
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Registration is open until Monday 5 May, 12:30pm.
AHS teacher Lama Agnes Pollner invites Lama Shenpen to teach her German Sangha.
Join in this opportunity for the two sanghas to come together and practise.
Event details
This year's event will be predominantly online only though if you'd like to join in person you're very welcome to do so. Contact [email protected]ku.gro.sha@stneve for further details.
Mandala: a structure consisting of a centre and it's periphery.
It is an expression of openness or space - structured and moving. Mandala principle refers to the essence of these dynamic patterns and structures that underlie the whole universe and also our deepest being.
Every sphere or circle is a mandala, as are structures such as our circle of friends.
The body is a mandala. It centres around the heart and mind and expands from there into the world around us. All aspects of our world can be understood as a mandala: geographical, social, historical or psychological. We live in mandalas, which in turn are part of larger mandalas. In that sense, each of us is the centre of our own world. At the level of the mind, thoughts and feelings create new worlds or mandalas every moment from our memories, associations and which we enter in an instant and leave just as quickly. Each of these mandalas is a structured reality that is ungraspable in the deepest sense.
Lama Shenpen is currently writing her eagerly awaited book on the mandala principle, which will feature her lifelong research and practical realisation of this theme - inspired by the insights of Rigdzin Shikpo and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.