Friends:
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 & feelings, 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. Nibbāna 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 Mahāthera.
http://www.pariyatti.com/book_404201.html
Samsara is an endless Time-Ocean of
Suffering!
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