| | RE: Mara Answer 10/17/13 4:58 AM as a reply to Robin Woods. have you seen visualization of Mara? have you looked in it's eyes or eye closely?
Mara is very real but it is different than you think. Mara is shield made out of pain to separate you from far greater pain you could do yo yourself. Before you are ready to see what is beyond Mara it will haunt you and when you are ready it will disappear, no need to fight it or do anything with it.
My best advice is to have this at heart:
[quote='Metta Sutta']This is what should be done By one who is skilled in goodness, And who knows the path of peace: Let them be able and upright, Straightforward and gentle in speech. Humble and not conceited, Contented and easily satisfied. Unburdened with duties and frugal in their ways. Peaceful and calm, and wise and skillful, Not proud and demanding in nature. Let them not do the slightest thing That the wise would later reprove. Wishing: In gladness and in saftey, May all beings be at ease. Whatever living beings there may be; Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none, The great or the mighty, medium, short or small, The seen and the unseen, Those living near and far away, Those born and to-be-born, May all beings be at ease!
Let none deceive another, Or despise any being in any state. Let none through anger or ill-will Wish harm upon another. Even as a mother protects with her life Her child, her only child, So with a boundless heart Should one cherish all living beings: Radiating kindness over the entire world Spreading upwards to the skies, And downwards to the depths; Outwards and unbounded, Freed from hatred and ill-will. Whether standing or walking, seated or lying down Free from drowsiness, One should sustain this recollection. This is said to be the sublime abiding. By not holding to fixed views, The pure-hearted one, having clarity of vision, Being freed from all sense desires, Is not born again into this world.
yes, metta toward Mara, metta toward your so called 'ego' if you wish mara would just disappear because you note it then rather than noting 'mara' note 'aversion' |