Understanding Boonya and Mara with J. Dhyaan Master : หน้า 21/164

Metings with J. Dhyaan Master This is a store can satisfy every desire of god or man; No matter what they aspire to have: All that is got by boon’s grace. Beauty of looks, beauty of voice, beauty of figure, beauty of form, And lordliness and retinue: All that is got by boon’s grace, A local kingship, empire, too, bliss of Wheel-turning Monarchy, And godly rule in paradise: All that is got by boon’s grace. And every human excellence, any delight in a godly world, Even extinction’s excellence: All that is got by boon’s grace. A man has excellence in friends; devoting reason right, he wins True knowledge and deliverance: All that is got by boon’s grace. Discriminations, liberations, perfection of disciples, too, And both kinds of enlightenment: All that is got by boon’s grace. So great are the rewards it gives, simply, this boon’s excellence: For that the steadfast and the wise commend a store of boon made. “Boonya” he begins, “is all about when you do good, you feel good. You also feel the effect of a long chain reaction. This helps to purify your own mind. Again, it is pure energy.” (I have in my notes from this meeting that say boonya is pure, uncontaminated, unpolluted, spotless energy that we put out there in the universe when we do something good. I like that.) “And what about this thing that people call ‘Mara’?” I ask. I want to talk about the definition I have written. I say, “Is it something to do with a collectively created construct of kilesa?” I like that alliteration but this definition is, obviously, way too easy. He smiles. “It’s like this.” Up goes his arm and he adjusts his robes. “There are five types of Mara. In general, Mara, itself, destroys goodness by cutting goodness off … not like scissors, but it blocks us from doing anything good. Mara is called the Temper or the Destroyer, and what it destroys is goodness. That, of course, is the broad definition. But, as I said, there are really five types. The first type of Mara is called kilesa, just as we talked about last time. That is the garbage that destroys our mind. As soon as it starts, we become greedy, or angry, or covetous, or jealous. This happens because we focus on material things that are in the external world. We walk down the street and look into a store window, and WHAM, we want that thing that we see. Or we hear something negative about ourselves, and very quickly judge or become angry with the person who said it. But we did not even stop to ask if what we heard was true. It happens on a very subtle level within us. So this type of Mara is all about cleaning our mind, and making ourselves more aware of how Mara can take us outside of ourselves to only see things externally or materially.