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Chapter 6

Vattasaṃsāra

‘Vattasaṃsāra,’ ‘saṃsāravatta,’ these words are very familiar but tend

to be misunderstood; vatta means cycle or circle; the saṃsāravatta,
then, is a cycling, or spinning around, sometimes it’s called, in the Pali
language, saṃsāravatta, sometimes vattasaṃsāra, but the meaning
is the same, it’s the cycling around of cyclical things.

Now the things that cycle are of three kinds: the desire to act is one,
this is called ‘kilesa,’ or defilement, then the actions in accord with
that desire are another, these are called ‘kamma,’ then there’s the

fruits, or results of actions, these are called ‘vipāka.’ Now, how do
they cycle around? Try to think this one out, then we’ll grasp it easily:
desire is the cause, there’s then action in accord with desire, followed
by the reception of the ‘fruit,’ or result, of action.

And it doesn’t stop there: there’ll be desire, and, if the result obtained
wasn’t pleasing, there’ll be desire to try the same thing again, while
if the result was pleasing there’ll be desire to do something else.

There’ll also be the desire to protect, to look after our gains, this must
happen. And there’ll be another result, in that we’ll find ourselves
cycling around under the power of these three.

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