…by the devil. We haven't realized that in many instances, The devil, which is merely a form of the deity Tito or Yama or Mara in India, is the leering, flaming, circled image of karma. The natural ills that we have done coming back to it. But we…

…totality reasserts itself. Then let us also see why, in this particular problem, every bodhisattva, every divine being, must face Mara, the principle of the ultimate compound of illusion. Gautama Buddha, seated under the tree of the great determination, from…

…which he resolved never to rise again, unless he had attained the enlightenment, was immediately subjected to the assailing of mara, And Mara has been termed the deity of evil. More essentially, Mara is not evil. And Buddha would have been the last to…

…attained the enlightenment, was immediately subjected to the assailing of mara, And Mara has been termed the deity of evil. More essentially, Mara is not evil. And Buddha would have been the last to accuse Mara of being evil, although we are not quite so…

…has been termed the deity of evil. More essentially, Mara is not evil. And Buddha would have been the last to accuse Mara of being evil, although we are not quite so patient in our attitude toward the devil. But the devil, archetypally and…

…we are not quite so patient in our attitude toward the devil. But the devil, archetypally and psychologically, is identical with Mara. Amara means or signifies basically one thing. And that one thing would be termed in Buddhism sensation. Sensation, which is…

…the individual is placed in subjection to the reactions of corporeal or material existence upon the self, upon the egoic complex. Mara, therefore, is sensation in the sense of man's total receptivity to stimuli, and sensation in this case is the basis of…

…way in which the old pattern was set up. Because there is no good and evil in the essential teaching, and because Mara simply means this luck sensation, the arising of Mara before the young prince who was to become the Buddha during the Enlightenment,…

…there is no good and evil in the essential teaching, and because Mara simply means this luck sensation, the arising of Mara before the young prince who was to become the Buddha during the Enlightenment, represents the tremendous impact of the phenomenal…

…of his own emotional courage. For this reason, the sphere of desire, or the karmic sphere, was also identified with the deity Mara, the god of illusion, and the tempter of Buddha. The desire is forever luring the individual to that which is its inevitable…

…basic. It's almost certain from the reading of the golden legend that the devil is merely another version of the Indian deity Mara. Or sometimes referred to as Mara and his host of temptations that sought to disturb Buddha at the time of the…

…the reading of the golden legend that the devil is merely another version of the Indian deity Mara. Or sometimes referred to as Mara and his host of temptations that sought to disturb Buddha at the time of the Enlightenment. It was Mara who cast the…

…sometimes referred to as Mara and his host of temptations that sought to disturb Buddha at the time of the Enlightenment. It was Mara who cast the glamour of unreality upon all existence. It was Mara that was responsible for the rise of egoism in man.…

…disturb Buddha at the time of the Enlightenment. It was Mara who cast the glamour of unreality upon all existence. It was Mara that was responsible for the rise of egoism in man. First, Mara became a symbol of mundane conditions. perhaps similar in…

…cast the glamour of unreality upon all existence. It was Mara that was responsible for the rise of egoism in man. First, Mara became a symbol of mundane conditions. perhaps similar in concept to the idea that Caesar became the emblem of the false god.…

…was very similar to the story of the temptation of jesus on the mount mara the illusion returned to plague the buddha Mara said to him, Master, you have attained enlightenment. You are a perfect Buddha. I bow before you. I admit your authority. However,…

…duty was to become the instructor of his fellow men, to go forth teaching them the Noble Eightfold Path. This further confounded Mara, the deity of darkness. for it assailed the foundations of the empire of ignorance. So while the Ahab of the southern…

…of doubt. At the time of the temptation scene, the strange moment of Buddha-related illumination under the bowtree, when the host of Mara came to tempt him, the universal confusion closed in upon him in an effort to turn him from the quiet internal…

…they want to perpetuate their physical existence even though it corrupts their souls. We have witnessed that materiality is supreme. Then Mara turned to the Buddha, who was just hating enlightenment, and he said, Who do you have to bear witness? The Buddha…

…they are benighted. They grow in darkness. They are victims of illusion. They are slaves that have been brought into bondage by Mara, the lord of deceits. So that the compassionate one is in no way a different being when viewing the person who is…

…lead through the whole of life to death. Only when there is a complete renunciation of all material things can the curse of Mara, the lord of illusion, be broken. About the beginning of the Christian era in the north lands of India on the borders…

…gone before him and who have found the way as he has found it. He has kept the truth. The deities of darkness, Mara, the principle of illusion, retires unto the earth. Temptation fails. He is beyond all temptation. and in that way in the silence of…