Each person’s life is like a mandala—a vast, limitless circle. We
stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and
think forms the mandala of our life. We enter a room, and the room is
our mandala. We get on the subway, and the subway car is our mandala,
down to the teenager checking messages on her iPhone and the homeless
man slumped in the corner. We go for a hike in the mountains, and
everything as far as we can see is our mandala: the clouds, the trees,
the snow on the peeks, even the rattlesnake coiled in the corner. We’re
lying in a hospital bed, and the hospital is our mandala. We don’t set
it up, we don’t get to choose what or who shows up in it. It is, As
Chogyam Trungpa said, “the mandala that is never arranged but is always
complete.” And we embrace it just as it is.
Everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your
awakening. From this point of view, awakening is right at your
fingertips continually. There’s not a drop of rain or a pile of dog poop
that appears in your life that isn’t the manifestation of enlightened
energy, that isn’t a doorway to sacred world. But it’s up to you whether
your life is a mandala of neurosis or a mandala of sanity.
~Pema Chodron, Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
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