Kristin Geeslin, M.S. "Mindful Seer"

11/26/2025

Four women share great advice they received which has served them well. With Dr. Mary White, Dr. Ginger Featherstone, Jackie Gilley, and Kristin Geeslin, Th...

11/26/2025

ARE you SENSING INTO SA TurN DIRECT! Feels like a HUGE relief -relelase & REWARD to me...

11/17/2025

POSITIVE WISHES & INTENTIONS FOR OTHERS IS ONE OF THE FUN DA MENTALS that I PRACTICE CONSISTENTLY -

11/14/2025

This World Kindness Day we look to this intricate and striking image of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Avalokiteshvara, also known as Lokeshvara when in his thousand-armed form.

In this thangka painting from 18th-century central Tibet, Lokeshvara has 11 heads piled on top of each other, varying in color. Near the top he bears a wrathful face with bared fangs, and right above is the face of his spiritual father, Buddha Amitabha. A large white circle surrounds his body. This halo is actually made up of his many arms, detailing all one thousand. While a pair of his arms is at his heart, most are performing the hand gesture, or mudra, of generosity, as if he is giving you something. And in each hand, he has an eye, as if fully aware of the receiver of his compassion.

It is said that when Lokeshvara first started his journey to help all sentient beings to gain enlightenment, there was a point that he became so overwhelmed that he physically broke into a thousand pieces. It was with the aid of his spiritual father, Buddha Amitabha, that he was able to be put back together again in the form featured here. Here he embodies what it's like to give an infinite amount of compassion to others.

Explore the complete thangka in our online collection: https://rubinmuseum.org/collection/f1997-1-6/

11/14/2025

So wonderful to have a kindness HOLY DAY -

This World Kindness Day we look to this intricate and striking image of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Avalokiteshvara, also known as Lokeshvara when in his thousand-armed form.

In this thangka painting from 18th-century central Tibet, Lokeshvara has 11 heads piled on top of each other, varying in color. Near the top he bears a wrathful face with bared fangs, and right above is the face of his spiritual father, Buddha Amitabha. A large white circle surrounds his body. This halo is actually made up of his many arms, detailing all one thousand. While a pair of his arms is at his heart, most are performing the hand gesture, or mudra, of generosity, as if he is giving you something. And in each hand, he has an eye, as if fully aware of the receiver of his compassion.

It is said that when Lokeshvara first started his journey to help all sentient beings to gain enlightenment, there was a point that he became so overwhelmed that he physically broke into a thousand pieces. It was with the aid of his spiritual father, Buddha Amitabha, that he was able to be put back together again in the form featured here. Here he embodies what it's like to give an infinite amount of compassion to others.

Explore the complete thangka in our online collection: https://rubinmuseum.org/collection/f1997-1-6/

11/12/2025

I did allow myself to step away from the DAY TO DAY to be in this flow yesterday.... formal practice creates the habit for conscious refocus & activates my bioelectrical field in the most advantageous way.

Today is Lhabab Düchen, one of the major Buddhist festivals. This holiday of “Descending from the Realm of the Thirty-Three Gods” is widely celebrated by Tibetan and other Buddhist communities.

Buddhists believe that Buddha Shakyamuni ascended to the realm of the gods to teach his mother, who passed away soon after giving birth to him and was reborn there. Lhabab Düchen is the day the Buddha descended back to Earth after spending 90 days there. In the contemporary Tibetan community, some people view this as a Buddhist "Thanksgiving Day," dedicated to remembering and appreciating the kindness of one's mother.

On this day, to rejoice in the Buddha’s return, laypeople and monks clean their spaces and whitewash walls. People go to monasteries and temples to pray and make offerings—they burn incense on the top of nearby mountains and circumambulate sacred sites, such as the Jokhang Temple and Potala Palace in Lhasa.

This woodblock print is based on a famous nine-composition painting set and created from carved wood blocks produced at the Derge Printing House in the Kham region of Tibet. This print depicts the Buddha descending from the realm of the thirty-three gods.

In it, we see three ladders reaching the human realm from the gods’ realm above Mount Meru. At the bottom of the ladder, bodhisattvas and humans welcome the Buddha back with offerings. At the center bottom is a stupa known as Lhabab Düchen Chorten, or the stupa of the Buddha’s descent from the god realm. In Tibetan Buddhist culture, this type of stupa came to represent this specific event from the Buddha’s life.

Explore more details of the Buddha’s life in "The Eight Great Events of Buddhas Life" art interactive: https://rubinmuseum.org/the-eight-great-events-of-buddhas-life/
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Shakyamuni Buddha; eastern Tibet; 1960; ink on paper; Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art; gift of William Hinman; C2001.4.8 (HAR 87508)

11/02/2025

When your friend & mentee pops on FB w a surprise: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14Mk7Q9P86b/

10/21/2025

Do you think of MINDFULNESS as a SPIRITUAL PRACTICE?

10/16/2025

Haye House calendar affirmations...are an easy and handy tool for shaping my thinking toward Mindful See" ing"!

10/14/2025