Saámsara or Sangsara (Sanskrit) (in Tibetan called 'khor ba, meaning "continuous flow"), is the repeating cycle of birth, life and death (reincarnation) within Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Taoism. In Sikhism this concept is slightly different and looks at one's actions in the present and consequences in the present.
According to the view of these Asian religions a person's current life is only one of many - stretching back before birth into past existences and reaching forward beyond death into future incarnations. During the course of each life the quality of the actions (karma) performed determine the future destiny of each person. The Buddha taught that there is no beginning or end to this cycle. The goal of these Asian religions is to realize this truth, the achievement of which (like ripening of a fruit) is moksha. In popular use, Samsara [a westernized spelling] may refer to the world (in the sense of the various worldly activities which occupy ordinary human beings), the various sufferings thereof; or the unsettled and agitated mind through which reality is perceived. Wikipedia, Samsara
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