Ep. 170 – Samsara

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness, Vipassana, Buddhism, Insightmeditation, Meditation, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein explores the nature of Samsara, or endless wandering, and the three interdependent cycles of defilements, actions, and results that keep the wheel of Samsara rolling.

“These three Kleshas in the mind – ignorance, craving, and grasping – they keep us moving around and around in this cycle of Samsara. There’s no balance in our lives, there’s no rest in our lives, as long as this cycle of Klesha is revolving.” – Joseph Goldstein

In this episode, Joseph explores:

The nature of Samsara and the profound questions it raises for us
The first interdependent cycle that keeps the wheel of Samsara rolling, the cycle of defilements, or Kleshas
The three root defilements that keep the cycle of defilements turning – ignorance, craving, and grasping
The second interdependent cycle, the cycle of actions and karma
The third interdependent cycle, the cycle of results
How mindfulness can help us escape the wheel of Samsara

This dharma talk from October 23, 1988, was originally published on Dharma Seed.

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0:30.7	Tonight I would like to speak about the the meaning of the word Samsara is perpetual is perpetual
0:37.0	the meaning of the word Samsara is perpetual wandering.
0:49.0	This refers to the cycle of endless change,
0:55.3	endless arising and passing away of phenomena.
1:02.0	The endless cycle of rebirth through all of the different rounds of existence. Endless Wandering.
1:19.2	The Buddha's understanding of the scope of this wandering is very, very large.
1:27.0	His understanding of the nature of the universe included the direct seeing of many planes of existence.
1:47.0	Mostly we're familiar with the animal realm and the human realm. Through the power of his mind he was able to see other kinds of planes of existence, lower realms and higher realms.
1:58.0	So all these world systems extending over eons, vast eons of time.
2:08.0	So it's a big picture.
2:28.0	And Samsara is the endless wandering, the endless process of change according to different conditions through all of these realms, through all of these worlds. And in this vastness, this vastness of somsar, there are three aspects which stand out in all of the different realms and all of the different
2:51.7	conditions of experience.
2:55.0	That is the fact of birth, the fact of decay, and the fact of death.
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