Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 05/04/2019
Māra smashes boulders in an attempt to scare the Buddha.At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain. Now at that time the Buddha was meditating in the open during the dark of night, while a gentle rain drizzled down. Then Māra the Wicked, wanting to make the Buddha feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, approached him, and crushed some large boulders close by him. Then the Buddha, knowing that this was Māra the Wicked, addressed him in verse: “Even if you shake this entire Vulture’s Peak, the rightly released, the awakened, are unshaken.
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