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**JANALA** · 03-16-2011, 09:24 AM

I've always thought of Mara as our craving, and the ignorance that leads to it. When we're trying to go down the path toward enlightenment, these defilements which take personification as a type of demon/deva called Mara are the stumbling blocks, the hindrances. It's like the Satan/devil of Christianity, leading us away from compassion and wisdom and toward sensual pleasures, hate and prejudice, self-centered thought and action. Anyone else?

03-16-2011, 09:24 AM	#7
JANALA Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 437 Senior Member	I've always thought of Mara as our craving, and the ignorance that leads to it. When we're trying to go down the path toward enlightenment, these defilements which take personification as a type of demon/deva called Mara are the stumbling blocks, the hindrances. It's like the Satan/devil of Christianity, leading us away from compassion and wisdom and toward sensual pleasures, hate and prejudice, self-centered thought and action. Anyone else?
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