PadmaVonSamba wrote: ↑Mon Sep 27, 2021 11:20 amI think the point is, there’s not some kind of unbroken entity that moves from one moment to the next, or one lifetime to the next.Padmist wrote: ↑Mon Sep 27, 2021 9:47 am Malcolm: Nothings transfers from this life to the next, but aggregates are serially connected.
Malcolm: No entity passes from this life to the next, but the aggregates of the life are serially connected to the aggregates of the next, so there is a continuum.
Malcolm: Nothing transfers from this life to the next. Not even traces, karma or anything else.
Besides, aggregates, what can we say continues then? Mindstream? Consciousness?
That karma doesn't continue or traces is new to me. I must have misunderstood what Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche said in his book "Karma" that karmic traces or properties get transferred to the next life.
What can I read that would bring clarity / purity of understanding on this topic?
But rather, what happens here and now triggers the arising of what will happen there and then.
It becomes the cause of something specific to occur later.
How is it that some Buddhists think that the reborn person would know some details of his or her past?