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please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. In one description of the Buddha's Enlightenment, he's sitting under the Bodhi tree in Bodegaya, India.

And it said that when he sat down,

he sat with the resolve that he was not going to get up from his seat until he had achieved full realization.

Imagine coming into the hall with that resolution.

Some indication of the solution.

Some indication of the strength of his mind and I guess his good karma,

fortunately that very evening.

So as you know the legend has it or the reality of it as he sat under the tree and

the night progressed,

it said that different forms of Mara,

and Mara is the embodiment of illusion or delusion

or ignorance.

The different forms of Mara appeared in his mind.

During the course of the night there were terrifying visions of violence and

and there were very seductive visions

of heavenly and celestial pleasures.

And then in particular description, there's one line which for me captures the essence or characterizes the whole path of practices, a beautiful description of the

Bodif's mind in this situation.

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