Tag: Mara

__ Further Reflections 77: Your Buddha-nature isyour inner citadel and refuge.Align with it. Never let it downand it will never…

Consolation: Super Short Story #571   He consoled her, saying that only when there are those who do something so right, that…

An imaginary meeting headed by Mara with his minions, which is however in true in principle. This is a powerful…

Unnerving… Humans have begun hooking themselves collectively into the ‘matrix’ of virtual reality. There will come a day when virtual…

K: Hi Laoshi, I think it is the first time I saw so ’emotional’, and very rightly so. It is…

This is a chat on the article ‘Whose Buddhism is the Truest’ at http://www.tricycle.com/feature/whose-buddhism-truest : J: Who cares? These scholars are…

Different from the run-of-the-mill concept of there being a supreme and extreme good guy versus a supreme and extreme bad…

I went too see ‘The Last Exorcism’ because I thought the premise of the story was interesting. But it was…

From the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra (http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln260/Vimalakirti.htm) are lesser known but some very surprising and illuminating teachings: ‘… Then the Licchavi…

Dit: Look at his greed! I think he’s ‘possessed’ my Mara! Dot: Don’t be daft! Of course he is! Dit:…

As long as there is an ego, there are demons. When there is no more ego, there are no more…

A deal with the ‘devil’ appears good, so that it will be tempting enough to sign it, but will never…

In ‘Hellboy: Darkness Calls’ by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fregredo, Igor Weldon Bromhead invokes the demonic Ilsa Haupstein, binding her…

‘The Broken (Reflexion Trouble)’ is an unconventional thriller. I was interested in it as it seemed to be about doppelgangers,…

‘…Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.’ – Stephen King Monsters…

I saw her holding the catalogue like a new found treasure. As she sat down in the train, happily, she…

In the movie ‘Blood: The Last Vampire’, it was suggested to Saya (the half-vampire human) by her teacher that (vampirical)…

As featured in ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’, through of human birth as brothers, Wolverine and Sabretooth were mutants with opposite inclinations….

Pic: Mahakala Re: You cannot always be an ‘angel’. Sometimes you have to be a mara. Me: The constant ‘angel’…

Something simple happened a couple of days ago, that upon hindsight, seems more significant than not. I was seated at…