Symbolism and iconography
3 teachings in the library are about this.
- Part Two - The Spiritual Warrior, and the Mind Training Commitments Ondy Willson · 98 minutes · recorded October 26, 2024
The spiritual warrior is on an inner crusade, not one aimed at anybody else. The tantric view that we are already enlightened and held back by a small idea of ourselves, a long visualisation that breaks the rock of ego around Buddha nature, fear as the thing that blocks courage, and the commitments of the seven point mind training read through and argued over.
- Uncovering Contemplative Creativity Tashi Mannox · 109 minutes · recorded October 12, 2022
Creativity as a contemplative practice, and the responsibility Tashi Mannox gives artists to lift people rather than pour out their angst. He describes the sacred proportions behind thangka painting and Tibetan calligraphy, and breaks creativity into three parts: energy, playfulness and ornament. Copying crumbling manuscripts during a four year retreat taught him that whatever was unresolved in his mind showed up in the line, so meditation comes first. Questions cover learning without a teacher.
- Exploring Our Vision of the Path Ondy Willson · 111 minutes · recorded July 15, 2022
Guided imagery as a way of surfacing what thinking cannot reach, and of finding a direction when you do not know which way to turn. Ondy Willson traces Freud on dreams and Jung on active imagination, and how imagery is used in therapy and medicine now. Most of the evening is the quest: a garden, a path with an obstacle and a distraction, a helper at the foot of a mountain, and a higher self at the top who gives a gift. Participants describe what they saw and she reads the symbolism back.
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