The activities of Wisdom and Demons. One could see this as Buddhist psychology.

All sentient beings are BUDDHAS but do not notice it.
1.Our essence is emptiness/pure/Dharmakaya.
2.Our nature is cognisance/consciousness/aware.
3.Our expression is compassionate energy.

These if gone unnoticed become:
1.Ignorance.
2.Desire/attraction/grasping.
3.Aversion/hatred.

(It is interesting that attraction, repulsion and inertia, are the three main components of every atom in this universe!)

These the three Buddha qualities, prism into five Buddha families, or five wisdoms.

This is a description of the four enlightened activities of Buddhas and bodhisattvas and how the dark forces (Maras-Demons) can pervert them within us.

The following may seem a little complex, it is meant for those who like the idea of being spiritual engineers. Mara are like and dislikes in the mind. When we like or dislike we fall prey to those emotion, which can attract additional negativity. It all depends on our own negativity, that is why I find understanding the emotions is the key to sanity.

THE FOUR ENLIGHTENED ACTIVITIES.

With the laws of attraction, you have to be aware that there is another side to this. Every action can be distorted by the ego! This is because our capacity is not strong enough yet.

I’ll try and keep this brief.

An enlightened person will manifest these activities when a particular situation arises.

These activities are PACIFYING, ENRICHING, MAGNETISING AND DESTROYING.
Pacifying connects to mirror-like wisdom.
Enriching connects to the wisdom of equality.
Magnetising connects to discriminating wisdom.
Destroying connects to all-accomplishing wisdom.
The fifth wisdom of space allows the other four to operate.
(Karma here means action)

The karma of pacifying accommodates everything. It reveals that there are no problems, and that aggression from the ego is unnecessary.

The karma of enriching brings to light the process of growth, and allows the process of knowledge.

The karma of magnetising bypasses the conventional reality. In conventional reality, we continually try to draw desired situations towards ourselves and fend off undesirable ones. A realised person simply remains as he or she is, without this ego intervention, attracting naturally.

The karma of destroying is connected to compassion, aimed at ego’s manipulations.

THE DISTORTIONS OF EGO = THE FOUR MARAS.

These four demonic activities are directed at building and fortifying our concept of ‘self.’

The mara of pacifying appears as devaputra mara.
It attempts to make peace by using pleasure and security, to eliminate what is unpleasant. It is an imitation of genuine pacifying, which is beyond any self-serving strategy ( … “there, there – it will be alright, trust me”).

The mara of enriching is skanda mara, the mara of accumulating.
Ego takes the natural growth and turns it into its own ground. It takes the richness, and turns it into my wealth (… “see how clever I am”).

The mara of magnetising is klesha mara.
One attempts to attract, to feed one’s ego with what is desirable, based on the possessive emotions ( … “I enjoy praying for others” ).

The mara of destroying is Yama mara.
Yama mara, instead of destroying what needs to be destroyed, obliterates everything. Trungpa Rinpoche wrote, “it begins to get inspired in the wrong way, and uproots the whole tree…And that is the karmic quality of destruction gone wild, unnecessarily” (… “you are talking total rubbish!”).

This reveals that reality is nothing other than wisdom. We need to look closely at the world we actually inhabit and to contemplate our most ordinary experiences. If we do so, if we let go of what we think and simply let the true being show itself, we will discover that it is nothing other than primordial immaculate wisdom.

Remember: the outer demons do not miss a trick! Any whiff of ego involvement and they will feed off it. And off we go round in circles, re-acting… “Feeding time!!”

Be aware that worldly demons use these very principles to twist our consciousness.

All the best,

Tony