Sangha night talk from Sanghagita "Encountering Mara - Enlightenment Under Attack!"

Описание: Have we got what it takes to wake up?

In Sanghagita's talk on Tuesday, we'll follow Siddhartha Gautama’s extraordinary quest to its turning point. In him we meet a seeker who turns down power, prestige and leadership, turning his back on the received wisdom of harsh asceticism, choosing instead something far more radical: to meditate alone in the comfortable shade of a beautiful tree.
Here he meets Māra: tempter, accuser, embodiment of fear, desire, and doubt unleashing everything he has to prevent Siddhartha’s awakening.
How does he respond to each attack?
Could we do as well?
Are we ready to take our seat as he did, on the diamond throne of The Eternal Buddhas?

What was The Buddha really like?

We are told that the Buddha broke through into a radically different state of being, transcending ordinary human consciousness. What might it have been like to encounter that?

There was something magnetic, awesome, mysterious, and powerful about The Buddha. Some people even ‘WOKE UP!’ just by being in his presence.

During this series we will go on a journey, where we will glimpse The Buddha by imagining our way into some of the brilliant stories handed down to us - stories of an Enlightened Being interacting with the people he met.

We’ll be asking ourselves, what we can learn about The Buddha from these stories…and we’ll attempt to bring some of those qualities into the situations and people that we encounter in our daily life.