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09/08/2017 - What Turns the Wheel of Life (Francesca Fremantle)

9/8/2017

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BY FRANCESCA FREMANTLE| AUGUST 8, 2017

Francesca Fremantle on the wheel of life and how the Buddha deconstructed it.

The Buddha described all worldly phenomena as having three characteristics: impermanence, suffering and nonself. We suffer because we imagine what is not self to be self, what is impermanent to be permanent, and what, from an ultimate viewpoint, is pain to be pleasure. Existence with these three characteristics is called samsara, which means we are continually flowing, moving on, from one moment to the next moment, and from one life to the next life. Samsara is not the actual external world or life itself, but the way we interpret them. more...
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