Connected Discourses 4.15

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1. Linked Discourses 4.15
2. 2. Rule
3. A Mental Snare
4. So I have heard.
5. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.
6. Then Māra the Wicked went up to the Buddha and addressed him in verse:
7. “There’s a mental snare
8. wandering in midair.
9. I’ll bind you with it—
10. you won’t escape me, ascetic!”
11. “Sights, sounds, tastes, smells,
12. and touches so delightful:
13. desire for these is gone from me.
14. You’re beaten, terminator!”
15. Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The Buddha knows me! The Holy One knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there.