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On June 30, 2019, the Lion's Roar Dharma Center community came together to initiate the outer temple wall where a mural will be brought to life. The effort is being led by Lindsay Parkinson, who described Phase I as, "Bringing community together, giving love & spontaneity to the wall and acknowledging “Samsara” pain & suffering in the world. By expressing ourselves with creativity and joy we are facing these negative constructs with the opposite and inviting positive energy and solutions in it’s place." When participants arrived, they found the wall as prepared by Lindsay: After a couple of hours [...]

Organically created by the splash off event, these Mandalas will serve as placeholders for future members of community (whether they identify as artists or not) to have their ideas painted on the wall. Sponsors who wish to have their ideas created or artists themselves who would like to contribute personally can donate to the mural project similar to the “Chalk it Up” event held here in Sacramento. These spaces may rotate year after year so that the Mural represents change and growth over time... Keeping “placeholders” in the circular Mandala spaces that will continue to change & evolve over [...]