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Is That You, Mara?
James bald writes, i imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate and ignorance so stubbornly is because they since once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain. And now you have to have respect for mara, mara who appeared to the buddha in the form of greed and temptation and addiction. These are not small things. The power of greed, of hatred, of ignorance, huge civilizations, warfare, on and on. But when we see deeply, we listen with a heart underneath all that, to the longings and the fears and the confusion and the pain that james baldwin points to,.The hurt that's underneath everything else