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> Saṃsāra (संसार) is a Sanskrit/Pali word that means "world" I am not a Buddhist, but is "the world" something to be "escaped"? I can't find a matching definit

> Saṃsāra (संसार) is a Sanskrit/Pali word that means "world" I am not a Buddhist, but is "the world" something to be "escaped"? I can't find a matching definition for it to imply escape.

ottomanbob 5y ago
In buddhism, "the world" is material, personal, and full of suffering. It is something to let go.
- ethbr0 5y ago
  Doesn't this accurately describe IoT implementations? You're looking at transcending the physical, while simultaneously being trapped by and having to deal with its messy realities. Seems a pretty apt metaphor.
stewbrew 5y ago
Maybe, some people prefer nirvana.
- denton-scratch 5y ago
  "Nirvana" means extinction - the same word is used to refer to snuffing out a candle. I learned the fourth Noble Truth as "Nirvana is bliss"; but I never figured out how to unpack that.
cko 5y ago
> 153. Through many a birth in samsara have I wandered in vain, seeking the builder of this house (of life). Repeated birth is indeed suffering! https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.11.budd.html https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.11.budd.... I happen to have this as a tattoo actually. A relic from my Buddhist days.
danvayn 5y ago
The physical world, yeah. The specific aim or mission depends on the school, but the focus in Buddhism is always on escaping duhka ('modern/societal ills') in an attempt to break or transcend the cycle.
crdrost 5y ago
Samsara is not just “world”... The etymology is Sam/Sara, “through/motion” and the idea is that it refers to an endless going-through-the-motions, an endless cycle of dying, and re-dying, and being reborn as a slug and suffering as slugs do, and re-dying, and being reborn as a human and suffering as humans do, and re-dying, and being reborn as a god and suffering as gods do,and re-dying. You've “been there done that” for anything that you now think is some great aspiration for this life. A proper translation of “Samsara, Inc.” might be “Weariness, Inc.” or “Ennui, Inc.” ... It's not just the world, but the world with specific reference to this way that everyone is just going through the motions.

> Saṃsāra (संसार) is a Sanskrit/Pali word that means "world" I am not a Buddhist, but is "the world" something to be "escaped"? I can't find a matching definition for it to imply escape.

ottomanbob 5y ago

In buddhism, "the world" is material, personal, and full of suffering. It is something to let go.

ethbr0 5y ago
Doesn't this accurately describe IoT implementations? You're looking at transcending the physical, while simultaneously being trapped by and having to deal with its messy realities. Seems a pretty apt metaphor.

stewbrew 5y ago

Maybe, some people prefer nirvana.

denton-scratch 5y ago
"Nirvana" means extinction - the same word is used to refer to snuffing out a candle. I learned the fourth Noble Truth as "Nirvana is bliss"; but I never figured out how to unpack that.

cko 5y ago

> 153. Through many a birth in samsara have I wandered in vain, seeking the builder of this house (of life). Repeated birth is indeed suffering! https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.11.budd.html https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.11.budd.... I happen to have this as a tattoo actually. A relic from my Buddhist days.

danvayn 5y ago

The physical world, yeah. The specific aim or mission depends on the school, but the focus in Buddhism is always on escaping duhka ('modern/societal ills') in an attempt to break or transcend the cycle.

crdrost 5y ago

Samsara is not just “world”... The etymology is Sam/Sara, “through/motion” and the idea is that it refers to an endless going-through-the-motions, an endless cycle of dying, and re-dying, and being reborn as a slug and suffering as slugs do, and re-dying, and being reborn as a human and suffering as humans do, and re-dying, and being reborn as a god and suffering as gods do,and re-dying. You've “been there done that” for anything that you now think is some great aspiration for this life. A proper translation of “Samsara, Inc.” might be “Weariness, Inc.” or “Ennui, Inc.” ... It's not just the world, but the world with specific reference to this way that everyone is just going through the motions.