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gustavobarese
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"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."
The Buddha
The Buddha
"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."
The Buddha
Seems like such a daunting army to defeat...Buddha in Sutta Nipata 3.2 lists Demon Mara's tenfold army:
Bhikkhu Bodhi translation.
- “Sensual pleasures are your first army;
the second is called discontent.
Hunger and thirst are the third;
the fourth is called craving.- “The fifth is dullness and drowsiness;
the sixth is called cowardice.
Doubt is your seventh;
your eighth, denigration and pride.- “Gain, praise, and honor,
and wrongly obtained fame [is ninth];
[the tenth is when] one extols oneself
and looks down at others.- “This is your army, Namucī,
the squadron of the Dark One.
A weakling does not conquer it,
but having conquered it, one gains bliss."
Quite so - thus Buddha reminds us that courage & virtue must be paramount: A weakling does not conquer it.Seems like such a daunting army to defeat...