About this Event
Take a look at all the teachings being offered by our world-renowned guest, Venerable Zawa Tulku Rinpoche, during our Open House weekend and join us for one, or several! We'd love to see you! There is a suggested donation of $25-$50/person with proceeds going toward Zawa Rinpoche's continued work, but please do not let this deter you from coming if that may cause undue hardship. Please plan to arrive 10-15 minutes early to ensure enough time for parking, walking, and settling into the session. Satsang House is a private residence in a very quiet neighborhood. Parking is extremely limited. Please plan on carpooling with a friend. We look forward to welcoming you to our home. Please do not block the main driveway to our home.
Creation of the Sand Mandala
The Venerable Zawa Tulku Rinpoche is a master of the construction of sand mandalas and ritual arts. His specialties include healing and purification rituals. He is renowned for his kindness and pure morality.
One of the essential ideas within Buddhism is renewal, and human beings are in a cycle of mental and spiritual growth, reborn again and again until they achieve enlightenment. One of Buddha’s main teachings was of the impermanence of all things, happiness, joy, sadness, grief, all of it. The Mandala itself is a very powerful metaphor for life. Rinpoche will painstakingly create a sand mandala over the course of his visit to Satsang House Sedona to form a beautiful and complex form, and then when it is completed, it is brushed away, never to exist again. In many ways, this teaches us how each sentient being slowly grows into a complex system of structures, memories, experiences, and relationships, seemingly only to be destroyed.
The Mandala’s apparent “destruction” is not absolute. At the end of creating this beautiful artwork, the Mandala’s sand is returned to the earth to spread its energy and rejoin the elements. In essence, part of the teaching is that after death, each being decomposes to become part of the earth and reform as something else and return its elements to other living things. As an art form, the sand Mandala is made from dust and sand, and it is returned to dust and sand. This is a metaphor for the continual flow of life, a brief moment of beauty, then all of it is blown away to create something new, which is also a reminder of the lesson of impermanence.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Satsang House Sedona, 150 Century Rd., Sedona, United States
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