Recently someone pointed me to a YouTube video by Charles Gilchrist. Gilchrist is well known as a teacher and mandala maker. You will find an earlier guest post of his titled “Mandala Monday – The Path to Sacred Geometry By Charles L. Gilchrist“ among the Mandala Monday post category.
He has a great series of videos on sacred geometry which I thought would be interesting to spend a few weeks exploring. Here is the first titled “Introduction To Sacred Geometry.”
Enjoy!
You will find the images from the workbook he refers to in the video at:
According to ted.com: “Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she’s learned about compassion in the face of death and dying, and a deep insight into the nature of empathy.”
“Activist, anthropologist, author, caregiver, ecologist, LSD researcher, teacher, and Zen Buddhism priest — Joan Halifax is many things to many people. Yet they all seem to agree that no matter what role she plays, Halifax is consistently courageous and compassionate. Halifax runs the Upaya Zen Center in New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community she opened in 1990 after founding and leading the Ojai Foundation in California for ten years. Her practice focuses on socially engaged Buddhism, which aims to alleviate suffering through meditation, interfaith cooperation, and social service.”
“As director of the Project on Being With Dying, Halifax has helped caregivers cope with death and dying for more than three decades. Her book Being With Dying helps clergy, community activists, medical professionals, social workers and spiritual seekers remove fear from the end of life. Halifax is a distinguished invited scholar of the U.S. Library of Congress and the only woman and Buddhist on the Tony Blair Foundation’s Advisory Council.”
I hope you find her talk inspiring.
For those of you not familiar with TED Talks here is a brief summery from www.ted.com:
“TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences — the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK each summer — TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and Open TV Project, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize”
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This week the Mandala Monday post is actually a TED video. I know, TED video’s are posted on Thursdays, but this one is a very unique moving mandala that you just have to see.
This video is called “TEDxSummit intro: The power of x” and according to YouTube:
“Dancers + camera + kaleidoscope = this infinitely gorgeous short video. (Watch in 1080p fullscreen if you can.) It’s made for TEDxSummit, an unprecedented gathering of TEDx organizers from around the world– and the video celebrates “the power of x” to multiply great ideas. Learn more about TEDxSummit: http://tedxsummit.ted.com”
Enjoy!
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