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**Psymoussy** · 07-03-2011, 10:04 AM

I had a thought about this topic while watching TV tonight, looking at the products that the adverts were extolling the virtues of, Mara also has an external influence by the minds of those who created the adverts to tempt me to buy and an internal influence by my reaction to them.

Edit: I can however, see that if I conquer my internal reactions, the external effect has no power over me.

There is a series of parable-type suttas in the Samyutta Nikaya that I like very much, in which the "Moral of the Story" is the Buddha's suggestion to "drop the world's bait".

07-03-2011, 10:04 AM	#28
Psymoussy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 458 Senior Member	I had a thought about this topic while watching TV tonight, looking at the products that the adverts were extolling the virtues of, Mara also has an external influence by the minds of those who created the adverts to tempt me to buy and an internal influence by my reaction to them. Edit: I can however, see that if I conquer my internal reactions, the external effect has no power over me. There is a series of parable-type suttas in the Samyutta Nikaya that I like very much, in which the "Moral of the Story" is the Buddha's suggestion to "drop the world's bait".
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