The marketplace – a place of encounter and exchange.

You meet someone, talk to each other and part again.
A lively exchange of information and thoughts is possible.
You meet people here and see and hear a few things.

By tradition the marketplace is also a place for travelling folk
to make appearances.
Here artists demonstrate their skills to the public.

Where and when I show my skills of Zhineng Qigong – please see under Do it, Events and Spa Tour.

You are welcome to come and watch and join in.

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The mandala picture on this page I painted myself.
It goes back to a rose pattern of a cathedral of the 13th century.

Going back in history, the spiritual structures are very similar.
The cultures of Europe and Asia are not that far from each other.

We see only what we want to see.
When someone looks at this picture today,
what does he see: a mandala, a rose, or both?
Is his glance open?

Is it something old oder something new?
The word mandala is relatively new to us.
It comes from an old language, Sanskrit, and means „circle“.
A circle is an old symbol. It exists in all cultures.

Working with old symbols, it may be:
you think something is new, but it is very old
(see also the archetypes of C.G. Jung).
Everyone of us bears within
old knowledge of mankind and passes it on.

What happens when a mandala is made?
You get in contact with your innermost.
Structure and colours come up from within.
At the same time the surroundings where you are at the moment affect you.
It is a holistic experience. Inner and outer are mixed.
It happens here and now. The path is the aim.
Important is only the act of doing it.
Is the mandala finished,
has it fulfilled its purpose, it becomes meaningless.

In Asia it may take weeks to make a sand mandala.
Is it finished, it is destroyed immediately afterwards.

To make mandalas is something everyone can learn by doing.
In the beginning you tend to fill all spaces of a mandala with colour.
Advancing in doing, spaces remain unfilled, that is to say void.

A finished mandala is a terminated path.
You do not walk it a second time.
You have arrived.

The here and now is fluent and does not adhere to things.
That is why the finished mandala can be destroyed immediately.

With Zhineng Qigong we also walk on a path.
Having gone the path or having arrived at the end of the path,
the exercises lose their meaning.