Samsara (Buddhisme)
Dalam Buddhisme, samsara (KBBI; Pali: saṃsāra; Sanskerta: संसार) adalah siklus tanpa awal dari kelahiran berulang, keberadaan duniawi, dan kematian kembali. Samsara dianggap sebagai penderitaan (dukkha), dan secara umum tidak memuaskan dan menyakitkan,[1] dilanggengkan oleh nafsu kehausan (taṇhā) dan ketidaktahuan (avijjā), juga dengan karma dan pengindraan yang dihasilkannya.[2][3][4]
Berbeda dari keyakinan agama Hindu, konsep samsara dalam Buddhisme menyatakan bahwa, meskipun makhluk-makhluk hidup mengalami siklus kelahiran kembali yang tak berujung, tidak ada jiwa atau roh (atman) yang tidak berubah yang berpindah dari satu kehidupan ke kehidupan lainnya.[5][6] Ajaran tentang tanpa-atma (tanpa-diri atau tanpa-roh) ini disebut anatta (Pali) atau anātman (Sanskerta) dalam kitab-kitab Buddhis.[web 1][7]
Punarbawa atau kelahiran kembali terjadi di tiga puluh satu alam keberadaan, yaitu alam-alam surga (brahma dan dewa), alam manusia, dan alam-alam rendah (binatang, hantu kelaparan, jin, dan neraka).[note 1] Samsara berakhir jika seseorang mencapai Nirwana,[note 2] “padamnya” nafsu kehausan dan perolehan kebijaksanaan sejati atas ketidakkekalan (anicca) dan realitas tanpa-atma (anatta).[9][10][11]
Karakteristik
[sunting | sunting sumber]Dalam Buddhisme, saṃsāra adalah "siklus kehidupan, kematian, dan kelahiran kembali yang terus menerus dan sarat penderitaan, tanpa awal dan akhir".[1][12] Dalam KBBI VI, samsara didefinisikan sebagai "perputaran kehidupan sebelum tercapainya kesempurnaan."[web 2]
Dalam beberapa sutta, khususnya Saṁyutta Nikāya 15, disebutkan, "Dari suatu awal yang tidak dapat diketahui, muncullah kelahiran kembali. Titik awalnya tidak dapat diketahui, meskipun makhluk-makhluk yang terhalang oleh ketidaktahuan dan terbelenggu oleh nafsu kehausan terlahir kembali dan mengembara."[web 3] Samsara merujuk pada siklus kelahiran dan kematian yang tidak pernah berakhir, dalam enam jenis alam realitas (gati, domain keberadaan; juga dikenal dengan kategorisasi yang berbeda dalam aliran Theravāda),[note 1][13] mengembara dari satu kehidupan ke kehidupan lain tanpa arah atau tujuan tertentu.[14][15][note 3]
Samsara dicirikan oleh dukkha ("penderitaan, tidak memuaskan, menyakitkan") dan berhubungan dengan Empat Kebenaran Mulia karena dukkha adalah inti dari samsara.[17] Setiap kelahiran kembali bersifat sementara dan tidak kekal. Dalam setiap kelahiran kembali, suatu makhluk dilahirkan dan mati, kemudian, dilahirkan kembali di tempat lain sesuai dengan karmanya masing-masing.[18] Samsara dilanggengkan oleh avijjā ("ketidaktahuan") seseorang, khususnya tentang anicca ("ketidakkekalan") dan anatta ("tanpa-atma"),[19][20] dan oleh taṇhā ("nafsu kehausan").[note 4] Samsara terus berlanjut hingga tercapainya Nirwana melalui kebijaksanaan,[16][note 2] “padamnya” nafsu kehausan dan perolehan kebijaksanaan sejati atas ketidakkekalan (anicca) dan realitas tanpa-atma (anatta).[10]
Konsep terkait samsara dan gagasan tentang siklus keberadaan sudah ada sejak 800 SM.[25]
Catatan
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ a b Klasifikasi tiga puluh satu alam keberadaan dalam kelompok alam surga, alam manusia, dan alam rendah (juga alam nonmateri, alam materi, dan alam kesenangan indrawi) adalah interpretasi umum aliran Theravāda, sedangkan Buddhisme awal juga mengenalkan kategorisasi enam alam: tiga alam baik (surgawi, setengah-dewa, manusia) dan tiga alam buruk (binatang, hantu, neraka). Kitab-kitab Buddhis yang lebih awal juga mengenalkan kategorisasi lima alam, bukan enam alam; ketika digambarkan sebagai lima alam, alam dewa dan alam setengah dewa dianggap sebagai satu jenis alam.[8]
- ^ a b Mengakhiri samsara:
- Kevin Trainor: "Buddhist doctrine holds that until they realize nirvana, beings are bound to undergo rebirth and redeath due to their having acted out of ignorance and desire, thereby producing the seeds of karma".[23]
- Conze: "Nirvana is the raison d’être of Buddhism, and its ultimate justification."[24]
- ^ Samsara adalah siklus kelahiran kembali yang terus-menerus dan berulang dalam enam jenis alam kehidupan:
- Damien Keown: "Although Buddhist doctrine holds that neither the beginning of the process of cyclic rebirth nor its end can ever be known with certainty, it is clear that the number of times a person may be reborn is almost infinite. This process of repeated rebirth is known as saṃsāra or 'endless wandering', a term suggesting continuous movement like the flow of a river. All living creatures are part of this cyclic movement and will continue to be reborn until they attain nirvana."[16]
- Ajahn Sucitto: "This continued movement is [...] what is meant by samsāra, the wandering on. According to the Buddha, this process doesn't even stop with death—it's like the habit transfers almost genetically to a new consciousness and body."[15]
- ^ Ketidaktahuan dan nafsu keinginan:
- John Bowker: "In Buddhism, samsāra is the cycle of continuing appearances through the domains of existence (gati), but with no Self (anātman, [ātman means the enduring, immortal self]) being reborn: there is only the continuity of consequence, governed by karma."[web 4]
- Chogyam Trungpa menyatakan: "Cyclic existence [is] the continual repetitive cycle of birth, death, and bardo that arises from ordinary beings' grasping and fixating on a self and experiences. (...) Samsara arises out of ignorance and is characterized by suffering."[21] Penjelasan Chogyam Trungpa juga merujuk pada bardo, atau alam peralihan, yang ditekankan dalam aliran Buddhisme Tibet (keberadaan alam bardo umumnya tidak diterima oleh aliran Theravāda).
- Huston Smith dan Philip Novak menyatakan: "The Buddha taught that beings, confused as they are by ignorant desires and fears, are caught in a vicious cycle called samsara, freedom from which—nirvana—was the highest human end."[22]
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]Sitasi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ a b Wilson 2010.
- ^ Juergensmeyer & Roof 2011, hlm. 271-272.
- ^ McClelland 2010, hlm. 172, 240.
- ^ Williams, Tribe & Wynne 2012, hlm. 18–19, chapter 1.
- ^ Trainor 2004, hlm. 58: "Buddhism shares with Hinduism the doctrine of Samsara, whereby all beings pass through an unceasing cycle of birth, death and rebirth until they find a means of liberation from the cycle. However, Buddhism differs from Hinduism in rejecting the assertion that every human being possesses a changeless soul which constitutes his or her ultimate identity, and which transmigrates from one incarnation to the next.
- ^ Appleton 2014, hlm. 76–89.
- ^ [a] Humphreys 2012, hlm. 42-43
[b] Morris 2006, hlm. 51: "(...) anatta is the doctrine of non-self, and is an extreme empiricist doctrine that holds that the notion of an unchanging permanent self is a fiction and has no reality. According to Buddhist doctrine, the individual person consists of five skandhas or heaps - the body, feelings, perceptions, impulses and consciousness. The belief in a self or soul, over these five skandhas, is illusory and the cause of suffering."
[c] Gombrich 2006, hlm. 47: "(...) Buddha's teaching that beings have no soul, no abiding essence. This 'no-soul doctrine' (anatta-vada) he expounded in his second sermon." - ^ Buswell 2004, hlm. 711-712.
- ^ Buswell & Gimello 1992, hlm. 7–8, 83–84.
- ^ a b Choong 1999, hlm. 28–29: "Seeing (passati) the nature of things as impermanent leads to the removal of the view of self, and so to the realisation of nirvana."
- ^ Rahula 2014, hlm. 51-58.
- ^ Laumakis 2008, hlm. 97.
- ^ Bowker 1997.
- ^ Gethin 1998, hlm. 119.
- ^ a b Ajahn Sucitto 2010, hlm. 37-38.
- ^ a b Keown 2000, Kindle locations 702-706.
- ^ Keown 2003, hlm. 248: "Although not mentioned by name, samsara is the situation that is characterized as suffering (*duhkha) in the first of the *Four Noble Truths (aryasatya)."
- ^ Williams 2002, hlm. 74-75.
- ^ Keown 2004, hlm. 81, 281.
- ^ Fowler 1999, hlm. 39–42.
- ^ Chogyam Trungpa 2009, hlm. 137.
- ^ Smith & Novak 2009, Kindle Location 2574.
- ^ Trainor 2004, hlm. 62–63.
- ^ Conze 2013, hlm. 71.
- ^ Keown 2003, hlm. 248: "The word samsara does not appear in the *Vedas, but the notion of cyclic birth and death is an ancient one and dates to around 800 BCE."
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