As we open to the energy of spring, it is important to remember to use its energy to open to the imaginal realm as we create our visions for our lives. We create it whether we want to or not, know it or not, believe it on not, so why not create consciously. This is a thought that comes to me again and again as I step into the greening of the spring.
As I travel through my day, I have found myself imagining the green of the earth, the grasses that are sprouting all around my house and my life, growing up into my body and invigorating me with their life force. Health, vitality, new growth streaming into my body, teaching me how to be in my life with newness and a sense of possibility.
Pay attention to what is right in front of you, take the time, even if its 30 seconds, to cherish the moments of your day, simple, complex, frustrating, and the challenging as well as the sweet and tangible ones.
These are my spring thoughts, my prayers for balance and a renewed physical engagement with life.
Build a structure of belief whether you believe it or not, let consistency be the ritual that transforms the day and the world into one that fits my dreams. Send these thoughts on wings of dreamy reverie, put the postage stamp of approval on them, open, hope, suspend judgement.
Honor the imagination. As Einstein said "Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Because our imagination is like a magic carpet that can take us away, and fill us with hope, and reframe the present so unlike a bitter pill, life is much easier to swallow.
So as the landscape of this season unfolds in my creativity and my dreams and my fantasies, I offer these images and thoughts for bringing spring into your life .
Happy Spring Dream Time to all...
Lama Prema Tenzin in standing in front of one of the thangka's that he has painted.
Here is a photo of his students in Bhutan learning the process of thangka painting.
Here other students are painting a large mandala.
This is the painting of the Compassionate Peace Mandala that we created smaller, condensed versions of in the workshop. It took him three months to paint this mandala. The colors are exquisite. All the symbols are very specific as well as the colors and placement of the symbols. 
Here is the beginning of my mandala in pencil
After the whole structure of the mandal was complete we went over it in fine line black pen.
The painting not quite complete.
Here is the completed mandala. that I did. The process was very slow, and deeply moving. Having the structure already prescribed, made the experience mindless, and the day moved both quickly and slowly, as each person was lost in the process of moving from outer to inner, inner to outer and then painting each shape in a prescribed manner step by step. I truely loved the experience and opportunity. I hope to study with him again as he offers another workshop in another mandala later in the fall. This has inspired me to go back to the mandala I started at the summer solstice and complete it. What a lovely, experience and an honor to be with his energy and way of sharing.
