曼陀罗本来是沉思的对象，有助于冥想，它们的比例神奇地平衡了净化和平静思想。凝视曼陀罗是要经历启蒙运动核心的虚无。
(The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.)