"Velvet Mirror" on display in Japan.
How often have you found yourself at the brink of an important decision, knowing how vital it is to find that peaceful place in your mind that will allow you to focus and contemplate, only to discover that your brain is super-charged with a thousand details, perhaps few or none of which have the slightest bearing on the matter you wish to consider?
The ancient spiritually-coded composition of a mandala is a tool used over millennia by Buddhist monks to facilitate focus, meditation and contemplation, eventually permitting the spirit to reach a higher plane and leave the mundane concerns of the physical realm behind. Religious mandalas of this genre are often made from thousands of grains of different coloured sands, and countless hours of deep concentration go into the making of one mandala, only to be deliberately destroyed some time after completion, to emphasize the fleeting moments of existence and the eternity of change. (Don't worry, our canvases don't blow away so easily)
In other words, the mandala is a tool to guide the mind toward that higher plane.
With the greatest of respect to the traditions behind the mandala (Sanskrit for "disk"), here at Mandala Mandarin one is not bound by the original representational settings, patterns or colours, since the world of Art is unfettered and limitless. What we do know, however, is that through contemplating the intricacies in design, the feelings and contours of texture, the blend of colour and the mood of lighting this style of Art expresses, although but loosely connected to the stricter codes required of a religious mandala, we find our waves of thought becoming clearer, more organized, as though the geometric patterns, so perfectly balanced, as opposed to a freestyle picture, are helping us to order our minds. We find our mood becoming calm, soothed by the harmonies of colour and we begin to be aware of greater spheres of possibility, where previously, perhaps, we had pictured certain ideas in a more black and white manner, since the contemplation of a mandala draws us in toward itself and pulls our mind outward, enabling us to lose the chains of "self", while at the same time, as we focus on it, we delve deeper inward toward our innermost soul, the place of infinite possibilities and find, upon returning to our day to day surroundings, we have clear answers, clear solutions, to which others may ask, "How on earth did you come up with that idea? I'd never have thought of that."
By all means tell them how - or let it be your secret.
So why not order a mandala for your office today? There you can contemplate it to your heart's content, as a tool for relaxation or to help you make those decisions you KNOW feel right. While you're at it, why not also give your guests the pleasure of something beautiful to look at as they wait in the outer office? You could also brighten up the stairwell, as one Japanese company have done, and where, according to the personnel manager, they now use the stairs more often than the elevator. So mandalas can even inspire exercise?
The possibilities, it seems, really are endless...
The ancient spiritually-coded composition of a mandala is a tool used over millennia by Buddhist monks to facilitate focus, meditation and contemplation, eventually permitting the spirit to reach a higher plane and leave the mundane concerns of the physical realm behind. Religious mandalas of this genre are often made from thousands of grains of different coloured sands, and countless hours of deep concentration go into the making of one mandala, only to be deliberately destroyed some time after completion, to emphasize the fleeting moments of existence and the eternity of change. (Don't worry, our canvases don't blow away so easily)
In other words, the mandala is a tool to guide the mind toward that higher plane.
With the greatest of respect to the traditions behind the mandala (Sanskrit for "disk"), here at Mandala Mandarin one is not bound by the original representational settings, patterns or colours, since the world of Art is unfettered and limitless. What we do know, however, is that through contemplating the intricacies in design, the feelings and contours of texture, the blend of colour and the mood of lighting this style of Art expresses, although but loosely connected to the stricter codes required of a religious mandala, we find our waves of thought becoming clearer, more organized, as though the geometric patterns, so perfectly balanced, as opposed to a freestyle picture, are helping us to order our minds. We find our mood becoming calm, soothed by the harmonies of colour and we begin to be aware of greater spheres of possibility, where previously, perhaps, we had pictured certain ideas in a more black and white manner, since the contemplation of a mandala draws us in toward itself and pulls our mind outward, enabling us to lose the chains of "self", while at the same time, as we focus on it, we delve deeper inward toward our innermost soul, the place of infinite possibilities and find, upon returning to our day to day surroundings, we have clear answers, clear solutions, to which others may ask, "How on earth did you come up with that idea? I'd never have thought of that."
By all means tell them how - or let it be your secret.
So why not order a mandala for your office today? There you can contemplate it to your heart's content, as a tool for relaxation or to help you make those decisions you KNOW feel right. While you're at it, why not also give your guests the pleasure of something beautiful to look at as they wait in the outer office? You could also brighten up the stairwell, as one Japanese company have done, and where, according to the personnel manager, they now use the stairs more often than the elevator. So mandalas can even inspire exercise?
The possibilities, it seems, really are endless...