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Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth
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Samsara is a 2001 independent Indian / Italian / French / German film which tells the story of a Buddhist monk 's quest to find Enlightenment . The film stars Shawn Ku as the monk Tashi, and Christy Chung as Pema. It was directed by Pan Nalin and written ...
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n. (Hinduism and Buddhism) the endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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"endless cycle of death and rebirth, transmigration of souls," 1886, from Sanskrit samsara "a wandering through," from sam- , prefix denoting completeness (from the root of same ), + sr- "to run, glide," from PIE root *ser- (2) "to flow" (see serum ).
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n. (context philosophy religion English) In Hinduism, Buddhism, and some other eastern religions, the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth endured by human beings and all other mortal beings, and from which release is obtained by achieving the highest ...
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In a flutelike voice, he sang of the sacred writings, or Vedas, composed well before the first millennium bc, and of the catalogue of magical yajnas, sacrificial formulas, mantras, and rituals that the Vedic religion embodied, and of the many schools, sects, and religions that had developed through the centuries: Sankhya, Yoga, Vedanta, Vaishnavas, Shaivas, Shak-tas, all of which were preached and practised under the separate canopies of Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which in turn took their impetus from the original Vedic, changing and refining the basic precepts into a multiplicity of separate doctrines : Karma, avatar, samsara, dharma, trimurti, bhakti, maya.
The early yogic schools had taken the Gnostic or purely Ascending solution: the dissolution of all Form in pure unmanifest Emptiness or absorption, the extinction of samsara in nirvana.
Nirvana and samsara are one and the same, though seen from different viewpoints.
Such banal activity ignores Truth and buries oneself and others deeper into samsara and its hells.
Each of the assembled sages gives his or her definition of Nonduality: it is the not-twoness of nirvana and samsara, it is the not-twoness of enlightenment and passions, it is the not-twoness of the many and the one, and so forth.
The close-up landscapes of China and Japan are so many illustrations of the theme that Samsara and Nirvana are one, that the Absolute is manifest in every appearance.
His ignorance they set about to rectify, teaching him as they would a child about samsara and its cycles of birth, death, and rebirth, and about the Great Mandala, the Wheel of Time.
On the other side was samsara, the cycles of birth, death, and rebirth he willed to enter again and again.
These emotions afflict all who are still traveling samsara, the cycles of birth, death and rebirth.
The closeup landscapes of China and Japan are so many illustrations of the theme that samsara and nirvana are one, that the Absolute is manifest in every appearance.
Buddhist, he can live in a transfigured world where nirvana and samsara, the eternal and the temporal, are one.
Nirvana identified with samsara, the manifestation in time and flesh and feeling of the Buddha Nature.
The phenomenal world and all existence, samsara and nirvana, All has one foundation, but there are two paths and two results -- Displays of both ignorance and K.
Spontaneously arising, a vast immanent expanse, beyond expression, Where neither samsara nor nirvana exist.
In a flutelike voice, he sang of the sacred writings, or Vedas, composed well before the first millennium bc, and of the catalogue of magical yajnas, sacrificial formulas, mantras, and rituals that the Vedic religion embodied, and of the many schools, sects, and religions that had developed through the centuries: Sankhya, Yoga, Vedanta, Vaishnavas, Shaivas, Shak-tas, all of which were preached and practised under the separate canopies of Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, which in turn took their impetus from the original Vedic, changing and refining the basic precepts into a multiplicity of separate doctrines : Karma, avatar, samsara, dharma, trimurti, bhakti, maya.