With interdependence, we understand how we experience the world is dependent on the attitudes we harbor and the mental projections we send out onto our world.
This means we can learn techniques and practices to shape our minds towards more happiness and freedom.
When we shift and uplift our own thoughts, we change our own experience of the world. We can move into the world to skillfully offer ourselves to be of benefit to it. It’s the driving purpose of traditional mandalas and this project.
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Making one cosmic rainbow heart is a whole in that it is a complete practice empower ourselves to be happy. If we repeat this process, we become more skilled at making the mental shift from agitation towards contentment.
The more we engage with the Mandala through the framework of virtue, the more cosmic rainbow hearts we make, the more seasoned we become at shifting our mindset from being blocked to being open.
The thing that makes ritual different than repetition is intention. Rituals are intentional movements and practices that are repeated over time.
The beauty of the mandala is that it is infinitely flexible. The mandala provides a suggested framework as a foundation for ritual use but that framework adapts to what is most needed for the group or individual making it.
For example, a person could work one virtue for a long time. They could choose gentleness as the guiding virtue for their creation and make tons of hearts related to gentleness.
Groups can work on the same or different virtues. Individuals and groups can come together to make mandalas for specific people, creating gifts in celebration or as consolation or to process grief. If there is an intention or virtue that has been left out here, the facilitator or user can insert their own.
The Share Your Heart Project gives suggestions on ritual. It encourages participants to also discover rituals that are part of their own ancestral lineage. The project believes that connection to culture, spirit and ritual empowers individuals, and that part of awakening is rediscovering and celebrating the heritage of many different cultures.
Really, the sky is the limit.