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    GOING AROUND IN SAMSARA

    Jan 19, 2021 4 minutes
    Inconceivable is any beginning of this samsara, the earliest point is not discerned of beings who, obstructed by spiritual ignorance and fettered by craving, run and wander on.
    —The Buddha, in the Samyutta Nikaya

    BUDDHISM teaches that we are stuck in an endless cycle or circling known as samsara. The underlying principle of this existence is that everything that arises does so in dependence upon something else. Nothing arises or exists independently.

    Samsara, in Buddhist cosmology, has no known beginning. To give a sense of Buddhism’s vast perspective here, the earliest time the Buddha refers to in his teachings is about ninety eons ago. An eon is a unit of time used to measure the arising and

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