Jan Willis on How Wisdom Frees Us from Samsara

Professor Jan Willis explains how by exploring the true nature of things, we can find peace in suffering and the cycle of samsara.

26 March 2025

In Buddhism, samsara is the ongoing cycle of life — birth and death and rebirth — that we go through with a sense of suffering and dissatisfaction due to ignorance. Buddhist practice is about undoing our ignorance and transcending our traditional relationship to samsara. Here, Jan Willis explains how wisdom frees us from this cycle.

This video is excerpted from “The Dalai Lama Global Vision Summit.