Tibetan monks create mandalas, beautiful colourful vibrant pictures. They’re usually circular and crafted from small, multi-coloured pieces of sand. Several monks, possibly four or five, work together at one time creating the mandala on a flat surface. It’s a meditative process where they finely scrape these pieces of coloured sand to create this beautiful picture.

When the mandala is finished, they hold a ceremony where they gently sweep all of that sand away and collect it. It becomes a multitude of colours blended together. Lastly, they take the sand to a river and release it all back into the river.

Why create something of beauty only to destroy it? The monks do this to remember the impermanence of everything, that nothing is permanent.

Often when I’m talking to people who are thinking, “I really want to make a change but what about my team or what about the impact on my family? I’m not satisfied anymore. I’d really like to do something different but I have an obligation to all these people.” This thinking can hold them and those they engage with, back from new experiences and professional growth.

I remind them that nothing is permanent. Everything changes. It’s all transient. Celebrate what you have had and let’s move on to the next thing.

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