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

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    23 hours ago

    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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        19 hours ago

        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.