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**aceriscoolon** · 03-17-2011, 10:43 PM

There is a Sutta where Buddha is asked "What is Mara" and the answer is something like "greed, hatred and delusion"

I'll see if I can dig it up

It does make sense to see Mara in this way, since it would make more sense of the enlightenment story where Buddha is struggling to overcome the defilements, not combat some supernatural being and his daughters

03-17-2011, 10:43 PM	#12
aceriscoolon Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 354 Senior Member	There is a Sutta where Buddha is asked "What is Mara" and the answer is something like "greed, hatred and delusion" I'll see if I can dig it up It does make sense to see Mara in this way, since it would make more sense of the enlightenment story where Buddha is struggling to overcome the defilements, not combat some supernatural being and his daughters
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