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The nature of samsara
I recently attended a talk given by Tenzin Palmo who visited our country recently. As you are probably aware South Africa has a very high rate of violent crime. When question time came around, she was asked what solutions she thought there were for us in this area. She seemed aggrieved by the problem and said that she did not have an answer.
For those of us living a life of good fortune in our modern world and further, those who have the inclination and leisure to question the meaning of life. When one proceeds down this avenue you rapidly feel set apart from the herd and become frustrated by the selfishness and destruction in this world. Especially in light of the fact that we are in the process of destroying that upon which we rely so dearly for our very existence.
Buddhism and other religions will have that we have been placed in a predicament where we are in a place of testing, a proving ground where the challenge appears to be one of figuring out what it is all about, with the successful contestants moving on the next level, others may have to go back to the start or even be sent back to the previous grade or even punished.
When we talk in terms of samsara and in the Buddhist view where one may have moved from a lower realm into this one, and that many people display the behaviour of an animal that is not used to being here. Is it perhaps incorrect to believe that the human race can live in peace on this planet, when one considers that this contradicts the purpose of samsara as a proving ground?
Perhaps we can only hold out a helping hand to those who are suffering greater than we (from lower or higher realms), and stumble forward. The Bodisattva ideal.
It would seem that samsara is set to persist by its very nature.
For those of us living a life of good fortune in our modern world and further, those who have the inclination and leisure to question the meaning of life. When one proceeds down this avenue you rapidly feel set apart from the herd and become frustrated by the selfishness and destruction in this world. Especially in light of the fact that we are in the process of destroying that upon which we rely so dearly for our very existence.
Buddhism and other religions will have that we have been placed in a predicament where we are in a place of testing, a proving ground where the challenge appears to be one of figuring out what it is all about, with the successful contestants moving on the next level, others may have to go back to the start or even be sent back to the previous grade or even punished.
When we talk in terms of samsara and in the Buddhist view where one may have moved from a lower realm into this one, and that many people display the behaviour of an animal that is not used to being here. Is it perhaps incorrect to believe that the human race can live in peace on this planet, when one considers that this contradicts the purpose of samsara as a proving ground?
Perhaps we can only hold out a helping hand to those who are suffering greater than we (from lower or higher realms), and stumble forward. The Bodisattva ideal.
It would seem that samsara is set to persist by its very nature.
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