Samsara
samsara - the meaning associated with this is the cycle of life i.e birth, death and rebirth. I feel and I could be absolutely wrong here; It is conjecture on my part. It should have ment something else. if you look up the root words "Sam" and "Sara" and look at those meanings it would mean "completely" or "constant" "to move" or "to flow". Constant Flow. Reminds me of the Dao. Could the conceptual meaning be wrong ? Which raises an uncomfortable possibility. What if samsara isn’t primarily about multiple lives? What if it’s about this one? A thought arises. An emotion follows. A story forms. An identity crystallises. Then it fades. And something else takes its place. Over and over. Every day. You wake up with a version of yourself. By lunchtime, it has shifted. By evening, something else is in charge. The confident self gives way to the tired one. The hopeful one collapses into doubt. The observer becomes the participant. T...