A. The core of Buddhist teaching is non-duality, that is, everything is one. Buddha and Mara are not separate but one. Whether someone or something is the Buddha or Mara depends on how you behold it.
Seeing what you see as real is being deluded by Mara and seeing it as empty is seeing the Buddha because Emptiness is another name of the Buddha. This is why the historical Buddha said in the Diamond Sutra, “If you see everything not as real but as empty, you can see the true-Self.”
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