sn4.17:2.1 Then Māra thought,
sn4.17:2.2 “This ascetic Gotama is educating, encouraging, firing up, and inspiring the mendicants with a Dhamma talk on the topic of the six fields of contact.
sn4.17:2.3 And those mendicants are paying attention, applying the mind, concentrating wholeheartedly, and actively listening.
sn4.17:2.4 Why don’t I go and pull the wool over their eyes?”
sn4.17:2.5 Then Māra the Wicked went up to the Buddha and made a terrifyingly loud noise close by him. It seemed as if the earth were shattering, so that one of the mendicants said to another,
sn4.17:2.6 “Mendicant, mendicant, it seems like the earth is shattering!”
sn4.17:2.7 When this was said, the Buddha said to that mendicant,
sn4.17:2.8 “Mendicant, that’s not the earth shattering.
sn4.17:2.9 That’s Māra the Wicked come to pull the wool over your eyes!”
sn4.17:2.10 Then the Buddha, knowing that this was Māra the Wicked, addressed him in verse: