How to Remove a Sensual Desire

The Buddha is reminding us through his own life experience and what we can experience for ourselves that there are much more refined states to enjoy. So the next instruction in the sutra says one knows how a risen sensual desire can be removed, was not only knowing the cause of desires to arise,. Once they have arisen the question is what do we do? How can they be removed once they have arisen? There are many texts where Mara appears either to monks or nuns or to the Buddha himself. Now he appears and it is often in the disguise or in the disguise of a hindrance. But then Mara loses all his power in the moment of being recognized. You know and often read in the