Mandala 2

Mandala is a field with content, charge and intention - like a magnetic field. Such a field has other properties than matter or energy.
Mandala is essential for human activity. Everything good is mandala. A cook, an artist, a politician, a parent has mandala. The alcoholic and the terrorist also has mandala.
Mandala is experienced and developed by the individual as an ideal worth striving for. In Buddhist philosophy, the ideal of all ideals is of course to reach the divine levels of reality. It is called Buddha-hood.
In the Christian tradition, mandala is called The Holy Spirit.
To have mandala is to have a skill or knowledge that is more than just a number of facts and methods.
Mandala seems to have magnetic properties in a very real sense. When you read about holy men in India, they are described as the most kind of personalities - with one exception. That is when two holy men meet. They might end up in the most childish power struggle. The repel each other as two strong magnets. Ordinary people are attracted by the magnetic force.