According to the mandala principle, a prominent feature of tantric
Buddhism, all phenomena are part of one reality. Whether good or bad,
happy or sad, clear or obscure, everything is interrelated and reflects a
single totality. As Chögyam Trungpa explains in this work, from the
perspective of the mandala principle, existence is orderly chaos. There
is chaos and confusion because everything happens by itself, without any
external ordering principle. At the same time, whatever happens
expresses order and intelligence, wakeful energy and precision. Through
meditative practices associated with the mandala principle, the
opposites of experience—confusion and enlightenment, chaos and order,
pain and pleasure—are revealed as inseparable parts of a total vision of
reality.
