Dear Readers: Today I share with you a very interesting experience happened to me in Dharamsala.
Dharamsala is a city in northern India, in the Himalayas. Dharamsala means shelter, and home to Tibetan exiles from their country because of the Chinese Communist repression.
In Dharamsala exudes a special atmosphere: are common Tibetan prayer flags, the Asian features and groups of wandering monks with cherry habits.
If the atmosphere is quite Dharamsala Tibetan in Tibet breathes Gangj McLeod on all four sides.
McLeod Gangj is indeed a small Tibet in exile. It is the seat of residence of the Dalai Lama.
It is in the main temple of Mc Leod Gangj where I could see the creation of a Mandala by a group of monks, were carefully dropping strokes fine colored sand.
The mandala represents Kalachakra teaching, one of the highest teachings of Tibetan Buddhism and esoteric revolves around the concept of time and successive cycles, in short is about the Buddhist concept of impermanence of all phenomena: the lives, the sorrows, the joys, all passes, nothing is permanent.
There were several days that I sat down to meditate watching the monks perform their path, which seemed to emanate true knowledge of sacred geometry.
One day, repeating the routine access to the temple and found mandala meditate next to the empty room. I then asked one of the monks and he replied with just two words:-mandala remove.
They waste the mandala that with such wisdom and patience had built an absolute lesson of impermanence. I already knew that the mandalas were created to destroy,
if only I knew intellectually, as witness the fact something as beautiful and complex could be destroyed in less than a second was a Dharma lesson live and direct.
Dear reader: I strongly advise you to generate opportunities to witness the creation-destruction of a Tibetan mandala. Although it does not compare with a direct experience, I leave a Youtube video where you can see impermanence, mindfulness of the monks and the avidity of the westerners.
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