SAMSARA WHEEL OF LIFE FULL
SAMSARA WHEEL OF LIFE FREE

a blind man symbolising ignorance, the lack of awareness of the nature of reality 2. The Buddha appears in all the realmsĪround the edge of the Wheel, starting at the top left and proceeding clockwise, are the Twelve Causal Links: 1. bottom centre, realm of hell creatures 5. top right, realm of anti-gods or titans 3. Going outwards, there are six sections between the spokes of the Wheel: these represent the Six Realms in which beings can be born: 1. These three emotional defilements bind people to the Wheel In the centre are the Three Poisons: a cock symbolising greed a snake symbolising hatred and a pig symbolising delusion.

Having no knowledge of what we should accept and reject, we will certainly go upon a mistaken path wandering in samsara, without beginning or end.The Bhavacakra or wheel of life symbolises the recurring cycle of lives from ignorance to death and from death to ignorance. Cycling again and again on the wheel of samsara for a long time we will have to stay in the lower realms.

'If we accomplish no benefit within this life, we may not hear later even the words 'the higher realms'. All is Samsara, the turning Wheel of Existence.' -Buddha, the Gospel

SAMSARA WHEEL OF LIFE FULL

The world is Vanity Fair, full of changes and transformations. There is a panic flight from pain and death, and hot are the flames of burning desires. 'Wherever you look, there is a rushing and a struggling, and an eager pursuit of pleasure.

SAMSARA WHEEL OF LIFE FREE

And thus have you long time undergone suffering, undergone torment, undergone misfortune, and filled the graveyards full verily, long enough to be dissatisfied with all the forms of existence, long enough to turn away, and free yourselves from them all.' -Buddha But how is this possible? Inconceivable is the beginning of this Samsara not to be discovered is any first beginning of beings, who, obstructed by ignorance, and ensnared by craving, are hurrying and hastening through this round of rebirths. Which do you think is the more: the streams of blood that, through your being beheaded, have flowed upon this long way, or the waters in the four oceans? Long time have you been caught as dacoits, or highwaymen, or adulterers and, through your being beheaded, verily, more blood has flowed upon this long way than there is water in the four oceans. And whilst you were thus suffering, you have, verily, shed more tears upon this long way than there is water in the four oceans. Which do you think is the more: the flood of tears, which weeping and wailing you have shed upon this long way-hurrying and hastening through this round of rebirths, united with the undesired, separated from the desired this, or the waters of the four oceans? Long time have you suffered the death of father and mother, of sons, daughters, brothers, and sisters. 'Inconceivable is the beginning of this Samsara not to be discovered is any first beginning of beings, who, obstructed by ignorance, and ensnared by craving, are hurrying and hastening through this round of rebirths. The wheel illustrates the cyclical nature of karmic conditioning within which all deluded beings are migrating. In Buddhism, the Wheel of Life is depicted as a great cycle held in the claws of Yama, the lord of death. (Sans'krit, bhavachakra Tibetan, srid pa'i 'khor lo / Shri Pa'i Korlho) The world of illusion the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

Samsara wheel of life