Mandalas are sacred symbols representing the essence of the universe. The mandala also symbolizes the totality of existence, both the inner and the outer.
The circular designs represent the idea that life is a flow and everything is connected. It is a spiritual journey within the individual viewer.
While Tibetan Buddhists see the center of the mandala as an awakened being at the center of the universe, the center also represents the beginning of each person's journey toward knowledge, wisdom, and enlightenment.
The goal of the mandala is to serve as a tool on our spiritual journey as it symbolizes cosmic and psychic order.
Yin Yang simbol represent duality, or the idea that two opposite characteristics can actually exist in harmony and complement each other. Describes how obviously opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in the natural world, and how they may give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.
