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Old 04-16-2011, 05:55 PM   #1
Gooracouppy

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Default Samsara/cyclic existence
Hi everyone
Can someone help me understand a bit more about cyclic existence in a basic way please?
This is how I am understanding the thoughts/facts around cyclic existence... Ok so we are reborn (preferably with a human rebirth) and in this 'form' we suffer from the moment we are born.....and I get that part but what confuses me is...
from what I hear in some teachings etc is that we want to escape cyclic existence...... so at first I assumed "ok so maybe from now until i die I need to strive to NOT be reborn"... but where do i go that is going to benefit others if the dharma is about freeing all sentient beings from suffering? and how come we have great Lamas still on this earth if we should be striving to escape cyclic existence? so is cyclic existence about being reborn with a good human rebirth and not suffering? if so, then how can you not suffer when there are so many people suffering? Isn't it better to come back to suffering but help people?
So in a nutshell.... does someone have to die and not exist again to be free of cyclic existence?
Sorry if this is a bit scattered/confusing but its how I am seeing it...and being confused by it
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