About Me
i was born, i am living, and one day i'll likely be reincarnated as a European sheep-herding dog...or maybe a world co-leader gently fighting for peace throughout the world and dor the happiness of all living beings.Delusions of grandeur is a frustrating mess!Nam-myoho-renge-kyoHope you dig the music:)Thanks!
Patrick x.Saṃs--ra, the Sanskrit and P--li term for "continuous movement" or "continuous flowing" refers in Buddhism to the concept of a cycle of birth (j--ti) and consequent decay and death (jar--maraṇa), in which all beings in the universe participate and which can only be escaped through enlightenment. Saṃs--ra is associated with suffering and is generally considered the antithesis of nirv--ṇa or nibb--na.:)At Savatthi. There the buddha said: "From an inconstruable (sic) beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating & wandering on. What do you think, monks: Which is greater, the tears you have shed while transmigrating & wandering this long, long time — crying & weeping from being joined with what is displeasing, being separated from what is pleasing — or the water in the four great oceans?""As we understand the Dhamma taught to us by the Blessed One, this is the greater: the tears we have shed while transmigrating & wandering this long, long time — crying & weeping from being joined with what is displeasing, being separated from what is pleasing — not the water in the four great oceans.""Excellent, monks. Excellent. It is excellent that you thus understand the Dhamma taught by me."This is the greater: the tears you have shed while transmigrating & wandering this long, long time — crying & weeping from being joined with what is displeasing, being separated from what is pleasing — not the water in the four great oceans."Long have you (repeatedly) experienced the death of a mother. The tears you have shed over the death of a mother while transmigrating & wandering this long, long time — crying & weeping from being joined with what is displeasing, being separated from what is pleasing — are greater than the water in the four great oceans."Long have you (repeatedly) experienced the death of a father... the death of a brother... the death of a sister... the death of a son... the death of a daughter... loss with regard to relatives... loss with regard to wealth... loss with regard to disease. The tears you have shed over loss with regard to disease while transmigrating & wandering this long, long time — crying & weeping from being joined with what is displeasing, being separated from what is pleasing — are greater than the water in the four great oceans. "Why is that? From an inconstruable beginning comes transmigration. A beginning point is not evident, though beings hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving are transmigrating & wandering on. Long have you thus experienced stress, experienced pain, experienced loss, swelling the cemeteries — enough to become disenchanted with all fabricated things, enough to become dispassionate, enough to be released."
