We pretty much always need an outside force to get us to stop.

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    Buddhists call this samsara or samskara. Our habits (whether good or bad) are the most difficult thing to break and breaking these cycles is also the most important skill to acquire

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        The terms are used almost interchangeably in Hindi. And used to describe something similar in Buddhism. I wonder why there’s so much overlap

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          @Darcranium do you know Hindi ?? The fact that you say that the terms are used interchangeably exposes the level of your knowledge of the language. The two words comes from Sanskrit. And even though my mother tongue is not hindi, l’ve used these two words very commonly since my childhood. Samsara in my language means family, but the word originally means the world, which is actually a family like system. Samskara means culture. It could also mean your individual habits and traits.

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            Saṃsāra is a Sanskrit word that means “wandering” as well as “world,” wherein the term connotes “cyclic change” or, less formally, “running around in circles.” In the context of Indian religions and philosophies, saṃsāra is the concept of all beings experiencing an ongoing cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

            In Hindu Philosophy and some Indian religions, samskaras or sanskaras are mental impressions, recollections, or psychological imprints that colour one’s thoughts and actions, and form the basis for the development of karma theory. In Buddhism, the Sanskrit term saṃskāra is used to describe “mental formations,”