http://moonstonemandala.com Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:09:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Eucalypt Cafe and Gallery January 20th to February 18th Daily 8.30-4 Closed Tuesdays 6962 Arthur Highway. Port Arthur. Tasmania Exhibition Opening The exhibition was opened by Heather Rose author and Tasmanian business woman of the year. Below is the opening speech. Firstly let me say, on behalf of Sally, welcome to all of you. I know Sally ... http://moonstonemandala.com/?p=142 “All consciousness separates; but in dreams we put on the likeness of that more universal, more eternal man [woman] dwelling in the darkness of the primordial night. There he [she] is still whole, and the whole is in him [her], indistinguishable from Nature.” -Carl Jung Enlightened by a soft yet ... http://moonstonemandala.com/?p=126 There is a Secret One inside us; the planets in all the galaxies pass through his hands like beads. That is a string of beads one should look at with luminous eyes. -Kabir Stars, diamonds, pentagons, triangles and rhomboids are some of the shapes that form this kaleidoscopic mandala. Together they create a pattern; a ... http://moonstonemandala.com/?p=118 I was out walking one wild and woolly afternoon having left the house, a quiet candle-lit cocoon darkened by the shadows of a late afternoon summer storm. Soaked by ocean-spray and stung by rain I stood out on The Point - a jutting chunk of land projecting into the ocean. Leaning ... http://moonstonemandala.com/?p=113 Dark and dim In it there is life seed Its life seed being very genuine In it there is growth power - Tao De Jing All the colours of the rainbow spring from an infinite indigo black. This seed of life sprouts from the abyss abloom with the zest and beauty of new life. Bands ... http://moonstonemandala.com/?p=103 Did I notice your deities dancing on heaven cloud, your mandalas of rippling colour? Or the prayer flags floating free on thin air? No, it was only the beggars, anchored and earthbound, and the richness of robes against the poverty of the people, that I carried home in mind’s eye. I tried ... http://moonstonemandala.com/?p=102 Song of the Dream Garden Pillowed on your thighs in a dream garden, little flower with its perfumed stamen, singing, sipping from the stream of you – Sunset. Moonlight. Our song continues. -Ikkyu Sojun The mandala: 'Oasis' Plant-like organisms are in various stages of growth - dormant, budding or blossoming. Organic flowering forms encased in rich foliage ... http://moonstonemandala.com/?p=43 God is the energy of the cosmos — Joan Chittister, Benedictine nun. The mandala: ‘Cosmic Dust’ There is a smallness within an expansiveness in this mandala. The initial vision that unlocked the journey of this painting was of an atom. The atom is represented as a small white dot in the centre of ... http://moonstonemandala.com/?p=38 Emerge into life, enter death — Lao Tzu The mandala: ‘An Emergent Reality’ Bubble-like forms hover over a partially transparent image creating a rather ethereal feel. There is a sense of delicateness and tenuousness to this painting, as if, perhaps, without the sturdy golden yellows and oranges, one could blow it all away. ... http://moonstonemandala.com/?p=35 Faith I want to write about faith about the way the moon rises over cold snow, night after night, faithful even as it fades from fullness, slowly becoming that last and impossible slither of light before the final darkness. But I have no faith myself I refuse it the smallest entry. Let this then, my small poem, like a new ... http://moonstonemandala.com/?p=27