The Zen Art Center March Newsletter

"Manja" by Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon The Circle of Life "Manja" is symbolic of the circle of life; the swirling bright red and blue color inside the circle represent the elemental nature of our material reality while we are alive. Outside of the circle represents the period before our birth, we can sense that we came from somewhere, but where was our mind before we were born? The inner circle in dark purple represents our ignorance about what lies ahead after death. We intuitively feel that it is not the end, but where does our mind go after we die? The spiraling continuous line is the path of our mind that connects all of the circles through eternity. -Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon