Ep. 130 – Essential Buddhism Part 5: The Truth of Suffering
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
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Samsara Existence - It's All Empty
It's said that once one has taken rebirth in a lower plane of existence, how extraordinarily difficult it is to again have the opportunity of a human rebirth. We are all trailing an infinite amount of past karma, both wholesome and unwholesome. And as long as we don't understand the law, the Dharma, the way things are working, we are subject at any time to the coming to fruition of that whole vast accumulation of past activities. A lot of suffering in samsara. It's a very heavy place when it is not understood,. When we are subject mechanically to the whirlwind aspect.
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