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Qualities of Samsara Notes - (5608)

Introduction

This post presents in note form, points to do with working to understand the Wheel of Samsara, and how we can work to liberate ourselves from it.

I  must say that this post was inspired from a study of the lecture presented by Glorian which can be found here. 

It is a really excellent presentation that you too, I am sure will gain a lot of insight from it.

I believe this is a very powerful teaching, as all human beings can relate to it.

There are actually two wheels of Samsara, the great external one and the miniature internal one, which is really psychological - a psychological wheel of Samsara.

Notes

Definitions

For a good understanding of this topic we need to know at least the definitions of Samsara and Nirvana.

Both Samsara and Nirvana are states of consciousness and we can find these two states in us right here and now. They are both really something psychological,

Samsara

Samsara means the continuation of a cycle. Samsara is really a state of consciousness that perpetuates the repetition of cycles.

Nirvana

Nirvana means cessation or to cut. Nirvana then is the ability or rather the state of consciosuness that cuts through the state of consciousness that constantly repeats the same. It is a state that can stop the repetition and bring us liberation from the many cycles.


Motivations

It is better to be free or freer of Samsara then be happy in Samsara.

In order to be free from something we need to comprehend it deeply. To be free is not enough to rebel or protest against something. 

We must understand deeply how something works and how we function in relation to it. When it comes to the wheel of Samsara we must know what makes us suffer and what keeps us suffering.

To liberate ourselves, we need lots of energy and clear knowledge and understanding. 

The better we know Samsara the easier it will be for us to free ourselves from it. Knowing the qualities of life on the wheel of Samsara is needed for this.


Qualities

Impermanence

Nothing in the physical remains. All that is physical passes away. This not only applies to physical life and objects but to events, situations. 

Constant Uncertainty

One thing that is certain is that there will always be uncertainity. We live in uncertainty and we try without stopping to mitigate this ever present uncertainity. 

Our job here is to accept that everything is uncertain. When we do that we stop being disappointed when things change.  

Unceasing Dissatisfaction

In samsara we are never satisified. We desire something and get it, then we become disatisified and this cycle continually repeats without end. We always want more even when we have much more than we can manage. Satisfaction is ever elusive and fleeting while disatisfaction is ever present.

Years to Build, Seconds to Destroy

This is always the way in Samsara, we can take years to build our reputation and in seconds with one dubious decision ruin what took us years to build. Spiritually speaking we can spend a lifetime working in the initiatic path and with one action, taking a minute or less, fall and lose all that we spent a lifetime working for.

High to Low and Low to High

Nothing stays constant. At one point we are up and later we are the bottom. Our popularity reaches a maximum and then wanes and we slide to the bottom.  

Suffering

We suffer becasue of duality and relativity in Samsara. we suffer in many ways. We suffer physically due to Karma created by our sleeping consciousness. However, all of our suffering begins psychologically due to our sleeping consciousness. Our sleeping and conditioned consciousness threw us into Samasara to pay our debts and to reawaken our consciosuness that has been conditioned.

Relativity

Everything in Samsara is relative. There are many refernce points and everything is perceived and decied upon relative tot he many reference points. In Samsara an absolute sense of bad does not exist, what exists is a relative snese of good. This is what rules, we all do what is good reltive to the reference point we take up. This reference point can change as is charateristic in Samsara.

Constant Rebirth

In Samsara we return and return to eliminate the "I's'" that we have created. That is the secret why we keep returning to take up a new body. When we eliminate the conditoning that bottles parts of our essence we learn the lessons to not make the same mistakes that keeps us stuck in the cycles of Samsara. 

Constant Death

If we are born we must die. Having the essence fragmented, with each fragment being fragmented due to its conditioning we must come to life to take up the opportunity to dissolve it. As eveything that has a begining has an end, the physical body must also die. To be born and die while being asleep is painful.

Loneliness

We enter and leave this life alone. Becasue the consciousness is also asleep we feel far from our Inner Being and all its parts. Each human being is really a universe and no universe is solitary there are many many inhabitants. Because the consciousness is alseep we do not perceive this.

Remedies

The remedy is to awaken. That is to awaken our consciousness.

To take refuge in our consciousness, to dissolve loneliness, to end disatisfaction and to cut through the many stagneat cycles. 

An excellent place to start is to awaken to the qualities of life on the Wheel of Samsara.

By being aware of and awake to the different qualities of Samsara we help ourselves to acquire the awakening needed ot begin to liberate ourselves from Samsara.

End (5608).

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