Beings Roaming and Wandering on from this World to the Other World and from the Other World to this World

Monks, this Cycle of Rebirth is without discoverable beginning. A first point is not identifiable of beings roaming and wandering on, hindered by ignorance (unknowing of true reality) and fettered by craving.

Just as a stick thrown up into the air falls now on its bottom, now on its side, and now on its top, so too as beings roam and wander on, hindered by ignorance (unknowing of true reality) and fettered by craving, now they go from this world to the other world, now they come from the other world to this world.

For what reason?

Because, Monks, this Cycle of Rebirth is without discoverable beginning. A first point is not identifiable of beings roaming and wandering on, hindered by ignorance (unknowing of true reality) and fettered by craving. For such a long time, Monks, you have experienced discontentedness, misery, and disaster, and swelled the cemetery.

It is enough to experience fading away of strong feelings towards all conditions, enough to become free from strong feelings towards them, enough to be liberated from them.

(Reference: SN 15.9)

In this Teaching from Gotama Buddha, he shares how the beginning of The Cycle of Rebirth is not discoverable and that we have all been countless beings in the past.

He is explaining that beings “go from this world to the other world, now they come from the other world to this world”. In other words, he is explaining how beings move in and out of the human realm, moving from all the other realms in and out of the human realm.

The cause of all of this roaming and wandering throughout The Cycle of Rebirth is explained through The Words of The Buddha as: “beings roam and wander on hindered by ignorance and fettered by craving”.

It is through eliminating ignorance (unknowing of true reality) by acquiring wisdom in these Teachings that beings can eliminate discontentedness and the constant struggles of rebirth.