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Cyclic Existence / Circle of Samsara

• Understand the nature of existence in samsara. Then we will want to take refuge. Practice will become more effective.
• Wish to end the cycle of suffering, not just suffering.
• Nature of samsara is suffering. It is not happiness and suffering.
• Liberate the mind from cyclic existence. This means liberate the mind from attachment and aversion.
• Brith, old age, sickness, death, separation from loved ones. Over and over again. The is the nature of beings in cyclic existence.
• Rebirth is without choice.
• We circle because of self-grasping.
• Develop awareness of what samsara is. How else can determination to be free arise?
• There is no destination in samsara where there is happiness.
• Reincarnation means mind takes another body. It is not something exotic.
• Upper realms are not free. We have to accumulate virtue.
• Understand what makes this a cycle.
• After we have died we are forced to take another rebirth. We don’t just vanish. This is why we need to accumulate positive actions and stay away from negative actions.
• Cyclic existence is not just 100 or 1000 times. It is endless. Unless you put a stop.
• Renounce the god realms as well. They are impermanent.
• Bodhisattva aspiration is to free all beings from cyclic existence.
• Birth and death is cyclic – this is the ultimate problem. Use dharma to solve this.
• Samsara has cyclic nature. Suffering repeats. Happiness is impermanent.
• Take responsibility to release sentient beings from cyclic existence, engage them into path. Have of a sense of desperation, due to their suffering.
• Birth and death does not mark the boundary of our existence.
• To notice you are wandering in cyclic existence is a realization.
• You have responsibility to bring sentient beings out of samsara.
• There are others in cyclic existence.
• Refuge cannot be found in cyclic existence.
• When we die, our mind merges with emptiness. But due to attachment, we come back to cyclic existence, again and again.
• We are in the prison of cyclic existence.
• Understand the nature of cyclic existence. Happiness will change into suffering.
• Gods of sun and moon will be reborn in dark places.
• Develop tiredness of samsaric existence.
• We are in bodhisattva school. Samsara is bodhisattva playground.
• Don’t be indifferent to beings – keep sharply in mind the reality of sentient existence.
• Nature of samsara is not different between god realms and hell realms.
• These sentient beings – our own mothers in previous lives. Each creature has been our parent.
• This wheel keeps on turning.
• Why are we in cyclic existence? Because we grasp.
• Even gods have to leave their body and transmigrate.
• There is no place we have not been born many, many times.
• What binds us is grasping.
• Today we are human. Tomorrow we may be an animal.
• We will change many bodies.
• Benefit others in a profound way - out of cyclic existence.
• Dharma is not for problems of this life.
• These beings have been kind.
• How long has samsara been going on? Since beginningless time.
• Our rebirth depends on karma, not wishes or choice.
• Samsara is a synonym for belief in ‘self’.
• We are a wandering mindstream. We have been born and died countless times.
• The continuity of our mind is beginningless.
• We wander from womb to womb. This is how we came to be associated with our present mother.
• Realize no matter where we are born, there will be suffering.
• Treat all sentient beings as children and consider yourself parent.
• Sentient beings have no power. Pull them out.
• How to break the cycle? Act with wisdom.