1000 Buddhas of Genius. Victoria Charles

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      Namuci (Mara) came,

      speaking words of compassion:

      “You are ashen, thin.

      Death is in

      your presence.

      Death

      has 1,000 parts of you.

      Only one part

      is your life.

      Live, good sir!

      Life is better.

      Alive,

      you can do

      acts of merit.

      Your living the holy life,

      performing the fire sacrifice,

      will heap up much merit.

      What use is exertion to you?

      Hard to follow

      – the path of exertion –

      hard to do, hard

      to sustain.”

      Saying these verses,

      Mara stood in the Awakened One’s presence.

      And to that Mara, speaking thus,

      the Blessed One said this:

      “Kinsman of the heedless,

      Evil One,

      come here for whatever purpose:

      I haven’t, for merit,

      even the least bit of need.

      Those who have need of merit:

      those are the ones

      Mara’s fit to address.

      In me are conviction,

      austerity,

      persistence,

      discernment.

      Why, when I’m so resolute

      do you petition me

      to live?

      This wind could burn up

      even river currents.

      Why, when I’m resolute

      shouldn’t my blood dry away?

      As my blood dries up

      gall and phlegm dry up.

      As muscles waste away,

      the mind grows clearer;

      mindfulness, discernment,

      concentration stand

      more firm.

      Staying in this way,

      attaining the ultimate feeling,

      the mind has no interest

      in sensual passions.

      See:

      a being’s

      purity!

      Sensual passions are your first army.

      Your second is called Discontent.

      Your third is Hunger and Thirst.

      Your fourth is called Craving.

      Fifth is Sloth and Torpor.

      Sixth is called Terror.

      Your seventh is Uncertainty.

      Hypocrisy and Stubbornness, your eighth.

      Gains, Offerings, Fame, and Status

      wrongly gained,

      and whoever would praise self

      and disparage others.

      That, Namuci, is your army,

      the Dark One’s commando force.

      A coward can’t defeat it,

      but one having defeated it

      gains bliss.

      Do I carry munja grass?

      I spit on my life.

      Death in battle would be better for me

      than that I, defeated,

      survive.

      Sinking here, they don’t appear,

      some priests and contemplatives.

      They don’t know the path

      by which those with good practises

      go.

      Seeing the bannered force

      on all sides –

      the troops, Mara

      along with his mount –

      I go into battle.

      May they not budge me

      from

      my spot.

      That army of yours,

      that the world with its devas

      can’t overcome,

      I will smash with discernment –

      as an unfired pot with a stone.

      Making my resolve mastered,

      mindfulness well-established,

      I will go about, from kingdom to kingdom,

      training many disciples.

      They – heedful, resolute

      doing my bidding –

      despite your wishes, will go

      where, having gone,

      there’s no grief.”

      … As [Mara] was overcome with sorrow,

      his lute СКАЧАТЬ