HVAD BETYDER SAMSARA

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SAMSARA
Sanskrit word meaning turning of the wheel or revolving. It refers to the transmigration in the Six Directions of Reincarnation, the realm of birth and death.

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SAMSARA
Samsara, in Buddhism, is the opposite of Nirvana. It is the world we live in now.
For Buddhists this is the world of illusion.
The next world is the real world.
My Samsara is a different world of illusion.
Buddhists believe that Samsara is the world of passion; attachment to people and things; multiplicity and differentiation. Their goal is to try in this world to approach the oneness, detachment, and peace that they believe will exist in the Nirvana that follows death.
My Samsara is also about passion, attachment to people and things, multiplicity and differentiation. Even if there is another life after this one, I'm in this one now, and will celebrate its contrasts:

Balance and Chaos
Peace and War
Love and Hate
Individualism and Tribalism
Sanity and Madness
Smiles and Tears
Writing and Pictures

As far as I know, nothing else exists but matter. And nothing matters but existence. The most positive comment I could make about 'God' is that he, she, or it is a work of human imagination, which seeks to somehow explain, comfort, frighten, or give meaning, just as art does. There are no spirits, no souls, no gods, and no magic, except for the magic of symbols. Everyone knows their power and believes their magic. They help us to understand and communicate our understanding of ourselves and the universe that surrounds us.Samsara is a collection of these symbols. The world of illusion.

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REBIRTH
In the process of becoming enlightened, the Buddha is said to have recognised all his previous lives. At the same time, he also said that nothing from one life goes on to the next. Quite a paradox really!
Buddhists understand life as samsara, meaning perpetual wandering, and describe the transition like a billiard ball hitting another billiard ball. While nothing physical transfers, the speed and direction of the second ball relate directly to the first. So the term most often used is rebirth, rather than reincarnation. Reincarnation implies the transfer of an essence, or a soul, while rebirth follows the law of causality, or dependant origination, where this arises because of circumstances which happened before.
A primary aim of Buddhism is to break free of the wheel of samsara, and to reach a new level called Nirvana.

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