Staring at the beach in Brazil: Mara's lust

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Are lust and loving-kindness emotions?

(Doug's Dharma) What did the Buddha teach about emotions?

Mara's at the beach, not on the battlefield

Christian holds sign at beach (Keith McManus)

Christians may imagine their Devil at war, killing, harming, maiming, and sending humans to the hells. But it isn't that way in Buddhism. Mara (the Destroyer) is sexy, a gentleman (shapeshifter), Mara Devaputra, more of a deluded Lucifer figure, imagining himself the Ruler of the Sensual Sphere.

In Buddhist cosmology, the universe is divided into three spheres or lokas (worlds), sections of the 31 Planes of Existence. The highest is the Immaterial Sphere (arupa loka), all mind, no form. The middle is the Fine Material Sphere (rupa loka). And the lowest is the Sensual Sphere (kama loka). Where would you, dear reader, imagine the Human World (manussa loka) is located?

Mara at beach would look more like Amatue

We are, of course, smack dab in the middle of the lowest section, the Sensual Sphere, characterized by sense craving manifesting mostly as lust (accompanied by aversion/hate and rooted in delusion).

Mara is not interested in harming anyone. His goal is seduction and keeping everyone within his sphere, reborn in worlds below his plane at the top of the Sense Sphere heavens (superior physical worlds in space). It displeases him greatly if anyone escapes to be reborn in the superior heavens of the Fine Material Sphere.

Get the heck outta here, you wandering ascetic! - Behold, Mara, the Earth says I may stay.

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It is probably unimaginable to him that there are even worlds beyond that, more subtle and sublime than the highest and most rarefied of the Fine Material planes.

While most of depicted as a "demon" (chief of the yakkhas or ogres), Mara has three very alluring daughters, Craving, Ennui, and Lust (aka Tanha, Arati, and Raga).

Three daughters

The Buddha-to-be was not swayed by deceptive lures.

In some accounts of the wander ascetic Siddhartha's enlightenment, it is said that the "demon" Māra did not send his three daughters to tempt. Instead, they came willingly after Māra's setback in his endeavor to eliminate the Bodhisatta's quest for enlightenment and liberation [16].

Mara's three daughters are identified as Taṇhā ("Craving" or "Thirst"), Arati ("Discontentment," a kind of "Aversion"), and Rāga ("Attachment" or "Passion") [15, 17].

For example, in the Samyutta Nikaya's section on Mara (the Māra Saṃyutta), Mara's three daughters are undressing in front of the Bodhisatta, but they fail to entice him.

They had come to him glittering with beauty

– Taṇhā, Arati, and Rāga –

But the Teacher swept them away then and there

As the wind, a fallen cotton tuft [18].

The three daughters of Māra were inspired by Aratis ("Avarice"), a type of feminine goblin associated with sensual craving [19]. More

• Sunny Beaches, April 16, 2025; Mara image (jendhamuni.com); Dr. Doug Smith (Doug's Dharma, April 28, 2025); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Trump farts feces in pants, Supreme Court

Bald, pale Trump in PJs and diaper with attorney Chugs in court (artist's rendition/Family Guy)

I'm losing my low IQ brain due to Adderall abuse, lying, sexual depravity, and age (Huff Post)

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I can't wait to testify and have my say!

To clarify, Trump is not "farting" in court. He is defecating (making feces) in his pants and/or adult diaper, which he regularly wears according to Noel Casler, because he is a drug addict who for years snorted cocaine and now daily snorts Adderall. Stimulants have a laxative effect, so he is chronically incontinent (unable to hold his feces and flatulence). To fart and go in his adult diaper less, he has been ingesting less of his drug of choice to not have to go as often, which has had the embarrassing effect of making him terribly sleepy. He is an exhausted old man, who wears a girdle, also according to Casler, is losing his hair, suffers from skin problems, which he attempts to hide behind massive amounts of makeup, which make the ginger appear like a buffoon who's nearly human. The Supreme Court agrees to hear and rule on his immunity claims before throwing them out and having him become subject to arrest. What can those he installed on the court, like fellow unindicted rapist Justice Kavanaugh, do for him now? Delay a ruling until after the election?

Don "The Toot Fairy" Trump in court, men think he respects women, his VP candidate shoots her puppy and horses

I'm snorting less to sh*t less, so I'm sleepier.

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) April 29, 2024: Trump is reportedly miserable at his trial, he wishes his show-wife Melania happy birthday from outside his trial for cheating on her with a porn star prostitute, he was in Miami to meet with his favorite punching bag, groveling Gov. Ron DeSantis, Eric Trump made an appearance on Fox News to try and help his father out but did more to hurt him, Don the John posted about RFK Jr. five different times over the weekend, boxer Ryan Garcia got an invite to Mar-a-Lago, the NFL draft wrapped up, and there were some excellent interview moments, South Dakota Governor and current Trump VP candidate Kristi Noem admitted to murdering her dog gunshot along with several other farm animals, including three horses, a majority of men think that Trump respects women, and the monologue is interrupted by a woke young feminist man in the audience who also respects women deeply. #Kimmel

Trump livid about Trial, can’t stop farting or falling asleep in Court and makes insane second term proclamations

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Hear what Kaitlan Collins says prompted a round of laughter at Trump trial

Deep Meditation Experience

"This monk seems to be so happy and calm. I like that with Buddhists. They are always so relaxed and peaceful. I am just a Swedish teenager with hundreds of thoughts flying around in my head all the time. But I do know how to feel everything that ''can't be seen,'' which makes me very calm. The spiritual light or how to say, God's light, even if I don't believe in God" -- ErikBz.

"Sounds like a classic description of the arising and passing stage, or what Jack Kornfield calls pseudo-nirvana. I wonder if he knows that. It's a fairly common experience, and it is followed by the dukkha nanas (knowledge into suffering)" -- Vjhorn.