Dec 25, 2021
3 min read
Hold Your Seat
On the morning the Buddha awakened, just before his complete enlightenment, Mara assaulted him fiercely to try to prevent his awakening. Early Buddhists regarded Mara as a literal demon, but that is not necessary. In our more skeptical, empirical age, we can think of Mara as our own psychological demons.
Mara is sort of the ego’s last stand, it’s final, desperate attempt to scare you away from awakening. Here is a description of the…
