What does the phrase mean?
Spinning the wheel is an eastern philosophical idea. The essence of it is also captured by the phrase: "Going fast nowhere".
What is the meaning of this? It is simply this that the world around us is cyclical in nature, whilst life is a continuous struggle. While the struggle seems to be towards an eventual aim it is all an illusion.
People believe that their struggle is towards an end, to achieve something lasting. However nothing could be lasting in nature, where the same struggle has been repeated ad infinitum by myraid beings in the past and will be so in the future.
The idea brings home this fact that the furious effort being made by living beings are leading to no eventual triumph. Their struggles just spin the wheels of nature.
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