Our Path Or The Path?

Since humans inhabited the world, so did Mara.
Mara is Sanskrit for demonic mind,
and Mara likes world just the way it is, in chaos and confusion.

Thinking we can put the world right is part of Mara’s plan to keep us in conflict. What else is the ‘news’ about?

We learn nothing from history. The same things keep happening under different names, and each generation falls for the ‘new’. People cannot see they’ve been duplicated – the world is a constant duplication.

Actual change only occurs when an individual realises this subtle state of affairs. There is no great enlightenment ‘up there’, ‘over there’, in a cave on a mountain. Enlightenment is a matter of lightening our load of beliefs and assumptions, just dropping this illusory cycle of existence.

What do we do then?
The life we are in now is due to our previous actions and decisions; we just have to play it out, while not acquiring more of the same.

But what do we not want to hear?
The real meaning behind angels and demons.
Understanding this actually shows us our path, and not the path.

Our path is resolving personal problems and confusion about our reality, and bringing this to a conclusion. Realisation of the cause of our problems and confusion – a belief in an artificial self – dawns as wisdom.

The path is following others in covering up problems and confusion, while living in hope and fear in order to feel good = Mara activity.

Who are we trying to impress?
When we’re on someone else’s path, 
we feel that we are never good enough,
which traps us in mental poverty.
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