Monday, November 7, 2011

SAMSARA

One can Escape the Suffering of Samsara!



The Blessed Buddha once said:
Inconceivable is the beginning of this Samsara; not to be discovered is
any first beginning of beings, who, blinded by ignorance and ensnared
by craving, are hurrying and hastening through this round of rebirths...
Source: (edited excerpt) SN 3:35


Some Comments:
Samsara is the crushing wheel of existence, which literally is meaning
'perpetual
wandering': A sea of life & death ever restlessly heaving up
& down, the symbol of this never-ending process of ever again & again
being born, growing old, becoming weak & sick, suffering, and dying...
More precisely put: Samsara is the unbroken sequence of re-arisings of
combinations
of the momentary events of the 5-fold cluster of clinging,
which constantly changing from moment to moment, follow continually
one upon the other, through inconceivable periods of time. A single life
constitutes
only a tiny microscopic fraction of these trillions of eons...
In order to comprehend the 1st noble truth, one must therefore gaze
long
and contemplate upon this Samsara, upon this frightful sequence
of ever rebirth mostly in lower painful forms, and not merely upon one
single lifetime, which may sometimes not seem very painful until aged...
The term Suffering: Dukkha in the first noble truth therefore refers
not
only to painful bodily & mental feelings, caused now by displeasing
contacts & contacts, but it comprises in addition every thing creating
suffering or which is liable to produce it later... The truth of Suffering
teaches
that, owing to the universal law of impermanence, even high and
sublime states of happiness are subject to change and destruction, and
that all states of existence therefore ultimately are unsatisfactory...
Without exception they all carry in themselves the seeds of suffering!
'Du' means bad. 'Kha' means state. Dukkha thus means 'Bad State'...
Samsara is a Bad State of Suffering. Nibbâna is a Good State of Peace!



Video illustrating life among humans, in heaven and in hell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QDBHCxvX-Q


All in this World, whatsoever, is Suffering: This is the 1st Noble Truth:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4_Noble_Truths.htm



For details on this Round of Rebirths: Samsara = Time-ocean of Suffering:
Samsara, Samsara, Samsaric_Dread, Endless_is_Rebirth, Endless_Round

Source (edited excerpt):
The Word of the Buddha: Venerable Nyanatiloka Mahâthera.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book_404201.html

Have a nice & noble day!


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Samsara is an endless Time-Ocean of Suffering!

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