Attunement: Mandala Coloring Book
Fabulously Favuzza
Offering a hands-on tool to support you in the awakening process, this card deck and guidebook set features 66 stunning full-color crystal mandalas to help you attune to and communicate with the energies of the ancient Crystal Oversouls. Each card depicts a photographic mandala featuring a different crystal that conveys messages directly into the consciousness of the viewer. The accompanying guidebook offers insight into the meaning of each crystal, including its spiritual and metaphysical properties, its association to scents, and its connections to individual chakras. For each Oversoul card, the guidebook provides an attunement--a meditation or -visualization--to immerse you in the higher energies of the Oversouls and the crystal kingdom. The book also provides access to 22 downloadable audio meditations.
The Dynamic Healing Mandala Maintenance Attunement aims to access the endless patterns and forms of mandalas that naturally exist in the universe. These energetically fluid mandalas are a powerful spiritual tool that may enhance your daily spiritual practice and meditation.
These dynamically fluid mandalas are not restricted to a precise geometrical shape or form. The shapes may create collages representing different patterns and forms depending on the energies they represent. You may see this as a structured mandala or as a fluid dynamic shape depending on what is required at that particular time. This dynamic form of mandala is open-ended and not restricted by defined symmetrical shapes; it is interdimensional and fluid. Perfect geometry is not a prerequisite for mandala creation, including shapes, frequencies, and colours.
Once you run these energies, you may wish to focus on a specific issue that needs attention and focus in your life. You will then be presented with a specific mandala that is unique to you and your situation that will work in the background to bring about healing, peace, and harmony. It is essential to be aware that you may not always see or perceive the shape of dynamic healing mandala. More often than not, these mandalas work in the background, and as such, it is not necessary to see or perceive them.
You can also use these energies to help you focus during your spiritual work or meditation. It may be used if you feel like you need to relax. These mandalas can help you to complete a specific cycle or to understand it better. They aim to help you bring about energies that may heal a particular issue or situation by rebalancing and increasing its vibration.
A yantra is a physical manifestation of a mantra from Vedic tradition. They are a type of prescribed mandala because the colors, shapes, and proportions have been pre-determined. Each yantra always consists of the same colors, even closely matching the tone and shade of each color is significant. For Instance, just above is the Tara yantra. Tara yantras always look the same. The design around the yantra is my own, but the actual yantra requires no artistic decision-making.In the process of creating a yantra, you start at the center, and then expand to draw a circle. Then you draw clockwise, from the outside in, until you reach the center again. You chant the associated mantra as you circumbulate the yantra. The movement and chanting is a clockwise tightening to build a powerful talisman.
In Crystal Oversoul Attunements (Findhorn Press 14.99), Michael Eastwood has created a new tool for meditation and contemplation. This set of 44 exquisite cards and their accompanying book allow the reader to explore in great depth the spiritual and metaphysical qualities of the crystals. Each card is a photographic mandala featuring a different crystal that conveys messages directly into the consciousness of the viewer. The corresponding volume contains information about crystal healing and meditation practice. Together the cards and the book build a map, representing the shared spiritual and healing potential that these meditations can bring.
The CHAKRA BOOK consists of 36 pages, out of which each chakra has a section with a meditation, a description and designated pages to color. Each section has a reference to specific colors to use to best connect with the chakra and a brief description of each symbol to best understand it. Images for each chakra include: a mandala, a character which embodies the characteristics and symbols of that chakra, and pages full of related patterns and symbols to learn and explore.
The purpose of this coloring book is to allow a person to reflect, relax, and learn chakras' symbolism at the same time. Subconscious mind talks to us through images, not words, therefore learning each chakra's symbolism helps to reflect and attune to it, while coloring. The process of coloring the chakras and attuning is a form of dynamic meditation, which allows one to reflect upon a certain vibration while coloring. Spiritually-themed images assist with self-reflection, attunement with your spiritual self, relaxation and centering. The patterns are distinct and are easy to follow.
Alternatively, mandala coloring books such as 150 Mandalas: An Adult Coloring Book With 150 Beautiful Mandalas in Various Styles for Stress Relief and Relaxation can be used to relieve stress and for self-soothing purposes (Koo et al., 2020).
The hosshin in its cosmic significance appears in the formor figure (sô) of a mandara (Skrt:mandala). That is, its cosmic body appears in a mandalic pattern,as represented in the mandalas used in Shingon ritual.Correspondingly the mind of a sentient being is also supposed totake on the form of a mandala especially as he advances inpractice to realize non-duality with the mandalichosshin. That is, the mind-and-body experience of eachsentient being mirrors in its own way the mandalic pattern of thecosmos. As one becomes enlightened, one comes to realize thisinter-mirroring. In the envisioning of reality as a mandala, thepractitioner, who on the one hand is aiming for Buddhahood, is atthe same time also the Buddha existing in the mandalic realityand expressing itself in mandalic form. Whether seen as the formexperienced in the mind or as the form of the cosmos, the mandalicfigure is the Buddha's mode of expressing the Dharma. This mandalicappearance of the Buddha is categorized into four types, which we willdiscuss in a section below.
Viewed in light of the concept of hosshin seppô, thecosmos is a flowering of the Dharma preached by Dainichi, as it spreadsoutward towards beings receiving it in various degrees in accordancewith their level of understanding. The form that this floweringtakes is the mandala (Jpn: mandara). The mandala inShingon Buddhism is a diagram or picture, usually a painting,picturing the doctrines expounded in the two major esoteric scriptures,Dainichikyô andKongôchôgyô. It depicts visually the formthat enlightenment takes as it becomes manifest in the universe. In other words, it is taken to be a visual depiction of thehosshin itself and the flowering of hosshinseppô throughout the cosmos, serving as a map for one'sjourney to enlightenment.
Together these two mandalic forms depict the form of the cosmos as adynamic process interrelating and uniting the transcendent and themundane, the enlightened and the ignorant, Buddha and man, macrocosmosand microcosmos, matter and mind, pattern and wisdom. They visuallyrepresent two simultaneous overlapping aspects of enlightenment,variously described as emptiness and form, compassion and wisdom,object and subject, the dimension from which the practitioneris guided by the Buddha and the dimension towards which thepractitioner evolves. In Kûkai's reading, these are inseparableaspects of the hosshin, depicted in the two mandalas fromdifferent but non-dualistic perspectives. Enlightenment would be theexperiential realization of their non-duality: richi funi. InShingon practice, therefore the Taizô mandala (rishin)is hung on the east wall of the meditation hall; and the Kongôkaimandala (chishin) is hung on the west wall.
As these three media are in fact different expressions of the sameDharma, they are not independent of each other. For example, themantra is an expression of the mandala in sound, and conversely, themandala conveys in pictures what the mantra intones. Togetherthey convey in visual form and in audible sound, the meaning of theDharma. Through these three media, sentient beings are thusaroused from their ignorance to realize their own enlightenment.
aa06259810