Light Body Meditation

Sit quietly where you will not be disturbed.

Be aware of your Light Body, or Mer-Ka-Ba, if you can. If you cannot, then just be aware of a tube of light that is embedded inside your body. If you are Buddhist, you may be aware of this tube. It is similar to a fluorescent tube in that it is straight and glass-like and about the same diameter.

If you hold your middle finger and thumb together, that will be the size of your tube. It runs from one hand length above your head to one hand length below your feet. It enters your head at the crown chakra on the top of the head or, in other words, the place where a baby pulses directly after birth. It then leaves the body at the perineum, the soft place between the anus and the genitals, but continues between the legs to one hand length below the feet...

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This Eye Mandala Begs For Color

Here's a totally cool mandala I found at Shattered Butterfly

Something like this would be a lot of fun to color.

Check out her Etsy store to see how it looks in full color.

EyeScapes - An Amazing Collection

Rankin, photographer and founder of Dazed and Confused magazine, created an incredible photographic series of more than a dozen decontextualized irises. Scrolling through these images is quite trance-inducing. The project was called EyeScapes, but the link is no longer valid....

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Stress and Sight

Like breathing, seeing is not something you need to do, rather it is something which you allow. Most people, however, do not appreciate that seeing is essentially a passive process. They strain to count the stars in the sky, to read the tiny print of newspapers, and to keep awake while studying organic chemistry long into the night. The conditions of civilized life place our minds and bodies under continual tension which blocks our ability to let seeing take place naturally....

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Seeing Things As They Are

If the doors of perception were cleansed, 

man would see things as they are, 

infinite.

~William Blake

More inspirational quotes can be found at my new website, Mandala Madness. 

An Eye of Horus Mandala To Color

Here's an Eye of Horus mandala to color

found at: A Mind.

Enjoy!

More mandalas to color can be found at my new and improved Mandala Madness website, and also on the Coloring Pages at shirleytwofeathers.com

Mathematics of the Eye of Horus

Different parts of the Eye of Horus were thought to be used by the ancient Egyptians to represent one divided by the first six powers of two:

• The right side of the eye = 1/2
• The pupil = 1/4
• The eyebrow = 1/8
• The left side of the eye = 1/16
• The curved tail = 1/32
• The teardrop = 1/64

If that's a little confusing, here's what it would look like if drawn out in a square:

The Eye of Horus fractions represented in a square.

According to some schools of thought these divisions are also believed to have represented the various senses as shown in the image below:

About the Eye of Horus

The Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, royal power and good health. The eye is personified in the goddess Wadjet (also written as Wedjat, or "Udjat", Uadjet, Wedjoyet, Edjo or Uto). It is also known as ''The Eye of Ra''....

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The Eyes Of Horus

Eye of Horus

A cool collection of mandala art featuring the Eye of Horus, 

sometimes called the Eye of Ra.

Enjoy!

Horus Moon

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Mandala Eyes - A Collection

All Seeing Eye

Here's an eclectic collection of mandala art with the eye as a focal point.

Enjoy!

Eye Mandala

Found at Flickr

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The Eye As A Symbol

The symbolism of the eye occurs in so many places and in so many different forms that its pervasiveness symbolizes the "All Seeing Eye" itself. The eye is closely associated with the idea of light and of the spirit, and is often called the "mirror of the soul." When a person dies one of the first things that is done is that the eyes are closed, a timeless gesture that signifies the departure of the essence of life. Generally, the right eye is considered to be the eye of the sun, the left, that of the moon....

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ZenTangle Mandala Collection

Daily ZenTangle

Symetry

by Diane Evans

ZenDoodle

Zendala

Zendala from Kim's Creative Corner

Zen Mandala

by Linda Cobb

The Yogi of Harmony

When the mind of the Yogi is in harmony and finds rest in the Spirit within, 

all restless desires gone, then he is a Yukta, one with God.

Then his soul is a lamp whose light is steady, 

for it burns in a shelter where no winds come.  ...

He sees himself in the heart of all beings and he sees all beings in his heart.  

This is the vision of the Yogi of harmony, 

a vision which is ever one.

~Bhagavad Gita

Visiting Enso Art by Casey Shannon

Enso One

Here's a nice collection of Zen Enso Art 

by Casey Shannon

Enso Spring

Enso Willow Bud

Camel River Peace

Enso Kaori

Sudden Enlightenment One

Enso Snow

Enso Aven

Enso Sudden Enlightenment

All These Forms

The following song, by the Tibetan teacher Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, advises us - in the face of the arising and dissolving of myriad forms - to "just let go, and go where no mind goes."

All These Forms 

All these forms - appearance emptiness

Like a rainbow with its shining glow

In the reaches of appearance emptiness

Just let go and go where no mind goes

Every sound is sound and emptiness

Like the sound of an echo's roll

In the reaches of sound and emptiness

Just let go and go where no mind goes

Every feeling is bliss and emptiness

Way beyond what words can show

In the reaches of bliss and emptiness

Just let go and go where no mind goes

All awareness - awareness emptiness

Way beyond what thought can know

In the reaches of appearance emptiness

Let awareness go - oh, where no mind goes

Bamboo Enso by Deiryu

Leaf after leaf in the pure wind,

As I see you off at the gate, there are tall bamboo.

Just for you, their leaves are raising a pure wind.

Deiryu (1895-1954)

This Deiryu enso was made with a dry brush in pale gray ink. The ink has pooled beyond the lines of the enso, giving it a soft quality. The bamboo in the center may illustrate the strength and flexibility of emptiness (often the enso's center); Zen people believe this is the ground of all life.

Daruma Enso by Nakagawa Soen

Not one moment of hurry,

Not one wasted breath,

This, this is

The natural Zen state of being!

~Mitta

Daruma/Enso
by Nakagawa Soen (1907-1984)
Mitta was Soen's Zen master name.

This wonderful Zenga is combination moon-mind enso, wall-gazing Daruma,  self-portrait, and Dharma talk. The inscription sums up Soen's Zen teaching--so simple to say, so hard to do. It is an inspiring and instructive work of Zen art.

About the Artist

Zany Nakagawa Soen was one of the pioneers of Zen in the United States. He was abbot of Ryutaku-ji in Japan where a number of prominent Western Zen elders trained, and Soen also visited the United States on a number of occasions. Soen was extremely unconventional leading students out of the meditation hall to dance together beneath the moon, installing a pumpkin in the abbot's seat, conducting "tea ceremonies" with instant coffee and Styrofoam cups, cracking jokes during his Zen talks and thus somewhat controversial. Nevertheless, Soen was an excellent poet and accomplished Zen artist.

Enso by Miura Joten

Within not one thing are inexhaustible treasures--

there are flowers, there is the moon, there are pleasure pavillions.

~The old fellow Hekiun

of Matsushima.*

Enso by Miura Joten (1872-1958)

Hekiun was Joten's Zen master name; Matsushima is the location of Zuigan-ji, the temple where Joten served as abbot.

This is a "not one thing" enso with  the often used inscription that tells us :"Yes, all things are empty, but that does not mean nothing exists--the world is full of delights that we should enjoy but not cling to." Joten was quite skilled with a brush, and did many interesting and unusual Zenga during  his long life. This is a fine example of his work.

About the Artist

Miura Joten was long-time abbot of Zuigan-ji in Matsushima, and also served as Primate of the Myoshin-ji branch of Rinzai Zen. Joten was a prolific and creative Zen artist

A Collection of Zen Enso Art

Belonging to Zen Buddhism, the Enso is a circle, drawn quickly and simply with a brush stroke although years of practice in the art of calligraphy are likely to have preceded the ease with which the symbol can be drawn. The Enso symbolizes eternity, the perfect meditative state, the "no thing," and enlightenment.

What follows is a collection of Zen Enso Circles in a variety of styles and interpretations:

From: Darma Art Fragments

Toyokuni Toshidama
Prints of Japan

Dragon Enso
by Catherine Jao

Enso Blu

Zen Circle

From Misija Komunikacije

Enso Circle

Rainbow Enso

Found at Pics Box

Found at Body of Work

Kusho

Zen Circle by Peter Cutler

Painting After John Cage