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**yharmon6614** · 10-10-2011, 01:44 PM

Agreed.

In fact, stuka him/herself put it rather nicely elsewhere:

"Samsara" according to the Buddha is not "cyclic existences". That is the pre-Buddha meaning of the term. His own use of the word, in relation to his own liberative teachings, denoted habitual patterns of distorted thinking and the cycles of misery that such distorted thinking causes. Basically, the Buddha's good ol' wheel ain't nothing but highly sophisticated "psychology". The pre-Buddha wheel, on the other hand, is the institutionalized and extremely speculative cosmology of pan-Indian civilization.

10-10-2011, 01:44 PM	#20
yharmon6614 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 387 Senior Member	Agreed. In fact, stuka him/herself put it rather nicely elsewhere: "Samsara" according to the Buddha is not "cyclic existences". That is the pre-Buddha meaning of the term. His own use of the word, in relation to his own liberative teachings, denoted habitual patterns of distorted thinking and the cycles of misery that such distorted thinking causes. Basically, the Buddha's good ol' wheel ain't nothing but highly sophisticated "psychology". The pre-Buddha wheel, on the other hand, is the institutionalized and extremely speculative cosmology of pan-Indian civilization.
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