046-Samsara - Buddhism in daily life

Samsara is a Sanskrit word that means "constant wandering". It points to the cycle of rebirths, to the perpetual succession of birth, old age, illness and death, the constant becoming and passing away, the cycle that first establishes suffering.

We suffer because we can't hold anything, because all clinging is useless, nothing belongs to us, we can't keep anything, because everything is transient.

We can get out of the eternal cycle (samsara) if we "let go", if we end the attachments, give up wanting and desiring, thus attaining knowledge, thus entering nirvana (the worldless world).

The eternal cycle of rebirths with birth and death; we are born, grow up, grow older, the body begins to wither, then death comes.

In Europe, culturally, the opinion has prevailed that it is then over, that we die, not reborn. This is different in Indian philosophies, such as Buddhism, Jainism and partly Hinduism. Here, death is not the end of everything, but after death the new life begins again, the "life after death". According to the Buddhist conception the "I" leaves the physical body when dying, takes all experiences, the personality with its tendencies, also the "self" with it.

Especially also the "KARMA" follows the "I" into an intermediate world (a plane close to the earth), the world of "emptiness" (astral world). But this world is not really empty, but it is completely different.

In this intermediate world everything consists of pure energy and is full of unbelievable power, cascades of forces find their illustration in loops and spirals, this intermediate world is full of colors, the energies of many different "I's" meet, create in consequence new life, they interact, they harmonize.

The cycle of life (Samsara) goes on, up and down, back and forth, the wheel keeps turning, today everything is "good", tomorrow everything is "bad", "beautiful" and "ugly" people and things accompany our path, but we Buddhists strive for "enlightenment", the highest realization, serenely "letting go" of everything to experience perfect bliss.

Where is your true center, where does your real personality sit? Who are you really?

You find your true Buddha-nature in your ego, not outside. But deep inside you know that death is followed by life again, so we don't have to be so afraid, we don't have to be so sad, because we "know" about the connection of things.

The sequence of the times is irrefutable, the universe expands, it will also contract again.

The way is the goal!

Oh, how we live so happily, without illness among sick people.

- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480 before the year zero

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