Offering up our delusion

Why is the mandala practice so meritorious? One reason is that most of our suffering is our own creation. We fabricate ideas about ourselves and the world, cling to them as real, and suffer as a consequence. So our practice, whatever it is must reduce our clinging if we are going to overcome suffering. In the mandala practice we are mentally conjuring up a whole world system and letting it go: create and release, create and release, create and release et cetera. In this way we are training ourselves out of our habit for clinging to our mental fabrications of the world.