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Insight (Samsara (The Wheel of Life) (Paticcasamuppada (The 12…

- - - - The realm of happy gods where everything is beautiful
      - The beings who live there have great wealth and power
      - Privileges blind them to the suffering of people less fortunate than themselves
      - They have neither compassion or wisdom
    - - The realm of the angry titans
      - People fight to get what they want
      - Titans are strong and powerful beings marked by envy of the Devas
      - Karma of hate and jealousy cause rebirth here
    - - The realm of the hungry ghosts
      - Never satisfied
      - The ghosts are depicted as having long thin necks with bloated stomachs, sometimes with holes in them to show the futility of their greed
      - Associated with addiction, compulsion and obsession
    - - The hell realm
      - Realm of suffering and despair, caused by hatred
      - Viewed as the most terrible of the 6 realms
      - Beings who live here are characterised as angry and aggressive
      - Some are hot, some cold, but all express human suffering
    - - The realm of animals
      - Beings only have concern for food, comfort and shelter
      - Animals are marked by stupidity and ignorance
      - The beings here are prejudiced and complacent
      - Beings are happy so long as their needs are met
    - - The only realm where escape from samsara is possible
      - Rebirth into this realm is conditioned by passion, doubt and desire
  - - - Final ring of the Wheel of Life
    - - A blind old woman.
        Avidya is the lack of wisdom (vidya) - it is not just that people haven't learned some fact that they need to know, but rather rather that their habitual ways of perceiving the world are fundamentally mistaken, and thus they are "blinded" (by greed, desire, lust, etc.).
- - - - Dukkha-Dukkha
        
        Ordinary suffering, e.g. painful experiences, distress, ageing, illness etc.
      - Viparinama-Dukkha
        
        Suffering because of the changing nature of things, i.e. not getting what you want
      - Sankara-Dukkha
        
        Basic unsatisfactoriness pervading all of existence, things never meet our expectations
    - - refers to a badly fitting chariot which will make your life uncomfortable