Sunday, August 16, 2009

Ajahn Candasiri  b. 1947 Edinburgh Scotland 

senior nun in Thai Forest Tradition ordained in 1979 

reads Padhana Sutta: The Striving


these suttas are over 2,000 yrs old. 

"Mara" as mentioned here is the personification 

of the various mental formations that can haunt a meditator 

drawing him or her away from the attempt to strengthen the mind 

& purify the heart


[translated here a little differently by Thanissaro Bhikkhu]

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