Samsara is the wheel of resistance which leads to stress, dissatisfaction, illusions, and suffering. Resisting what is generally leads to staying on the wheel until the lesson of enlightenment is learned. Enlightenment can be interpreted as accepting what is, surrendering to a higher power like the Force, and finding happiness in all things. Happiness is an eternal state of being when it is found within verses created by external "stuff".
Samara is ignorance of who we really are: Divine beings.
Nirvana
Nirvana is a state that is neither being nor non-being. It is the result of enlightenment. When we cease to create samsara through resistance, nirvana appears. Nirvana is the juxtaposed state of being. There is suffering and there is acceptance.
The message is simple: if we can create suffering, then we can create happiness.
Creating Ourselves
You have a choice to make - to live in a world of illusion: Samsara or a world of acceptance: Nirvana. In each moment to moment, we are inventing our reality: Mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, through conceptualizations, ideas, beliefs, and consciousness. This is a constant state of rebirth. In Buddhism, rebirth or reincarnation is not the transmigration of an individual soul to a newly born body (as is believed in Hinduism), but more like the karmic conditions and effects of a life moving forward into new lives. With this kind of understanding, we can interpret this model to mean that we are "reborn" psychologically many times through our eternal existence within the Force.
The Six Realms can be perceived as various places that we regenerate into based on our consciousness. In the course of a day, we might pass through all of them. In this more modern sense, the six realms can be considered psychological states versus the consistent state of life.
Living samsara is a process--it is something we're all doing now, not just something we'll do at the beginning of a future life. At any moment, we can achieve nirvana.
How do we stop?
Liberation
Liberation is achieved through acceptance of what is:
1: Accept that we create our own resistance, lies and resistance.
2: How and why do we create samsara.
- Acknowledge we can stop create samsara.
4: Discipline and meditation are the cure
We can think of this cycle-chain as something that happens at the beginning of each new life. But by a more modern psychological reading, it is also something we're doing all the time. Becoming mindful of this is the first step to liberation.
