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Dark Night of the Spirit
II. Dark Night of the Spirit Congratulations! If you have come this far in this series and have been in spiritual earnest, then you have completed the first leg of the Noble Ascent of Primordial Perfection. You have journeyed through … Continue reading
The mind of 84,000 hooks.
This is the sole gospel of Mara, the Evil One, so pay careful attention; Within each seed granted your self, there is a promise of a beautiful flower. One of completeness and bliss or even vengeance and destruction. In the … Continue reading
Towards a Psychology of the Māras, Part I
The Sacred India Tarot At the outset here one needs to be aware that the context in which Māra(s) is spoken is mythic in scope. Far more than any cognitively-based amalgams of collective-experiences shared … Continue reading
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Etymology of the Evil Ones
Evil is wide and prevalent in our Saha-World. Unlike the Truth, it assumes an endless array of faces and embeds itself unmercifully in all the assorted-affairs of sentient beings. The dominant Western and Eastern terms for these faces of evil … Continue reading
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Tagged Devil, diabolos, Evil, Evil One, Frankenstein, John Milton, Kanha, Lucifer, Mara, Māra kali cakram, Paradise Lost, Picture of Dorian Gray, samsara, Satan, the adversary, the Dark One, the Evil One, the True Story
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Coming Soon: Māra and Satan
On Ash Wednesday, February 18th, roughly 1.2 Billion across the globe will be ushering-in the season of Lent. One of the passages from scripture that always begins this solemn season, is the one in which Jesus is tempted by Satan … Continue reading
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Tagged Evil, James W. Boyd, Mara, Robert Warren Clark, samsara, Satan, Temptation
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(36) A Timeless Lesson
A perfect teaching cannot ever be spoken, yet the great Buddha, once awakened fully [to the principle], while holding a firm position within the luminous root of bodhi, moved his mouth and smiled, offering us direct entrance into this marvelous … Continue reading
(30) The Cosmic Battle
A great battle takes place within you, sometimes you become painfully aware of this war and sometimes it seems so far away that you hardly notice it. Yet, it is an ongoing war that takes place in a dry wasteland … Continue reading
(13) Mara
In Buddhism and many other religions, Mara symbolizes that collective and obstructive dark force generated by dark desires and ignorance of all sentient beings. It is often a matter of speech to denote Mara as a “he”, but Mara can … Continue reading
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Tagged demons of the mind, Mara, Mara's dream bodies, Mind, ONE, refuge
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The Spiritual Phasmid
Mara is the greatest predator of all. This beast, as I described it in the Dharmakaya Sutra, literally lives and grows on the power of a divided and misdirected Spirit; the latter being one most beautiful jewel. One that against … Continue reading
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Tagged Dharma, Dharmakaya Sutra, Mara, Spirit, Spiritual Phasmid, Tozen
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Christmas joke and a Happy New Year
How do you know when Mara got you in one of his 50 false enlightenments? As your body dies, he pops up before you and goes; Hey, congratulations you are free – NOT! (Laughs) Merry Christmas and Happy New Year … Continue reading