Our consciousness is abiding at the moment as if we are living in a rented house. Soon we will have to leave this house to go to another house—we will get kicked out and the house will change. At the moment we have this shape, we are called a human being, and our consciousness abides in this body, or form. Then, after some time, the continuity of this consciousness migrates to another body, according to how we have lived our life every day, and according to those actions of body, speech and mind, done with good or bad motivation.
Sometimes there is a physical body and at other times there is no physical body. Sometimes there is only consciousness or the other aggregates, and no physical body. There are five aggregates, so even if there is no physical body, there are the other aggregates. However, there is always the continuity of consciousness, the labeled base and the aggregates.
This present life's continuity of consciousness continued from our past life. Just as the continuity of today's consciousness continued from yesterday, like that the continuity of consciousness has no beginning. As the labeled base, the continuity of consciousness has no beginning, so the "I" or the self, which is labeled on that continuity of consciousness also has no beginning. As it has no beginning, the continuity of consciousness also has no end.
Our consciousness is abiding at the moment as if we are living in a rented house. Soon we will have to leave this house to go to another house—we will get kicked out and the house will change. At the moment we have this shape, we are called a human being, and our consciousness abides in this body, or form. Then, after some time, the continuity of this consciousness migrates to another body, according to how we have lived our life every day, and according to those actions of body, speech and mind, done with good or bad motivation.
Sometimes there is a physical body and at other times there is no physical body. Sometimes there is only consciousness or the other aggregates, and no physical body. There are five aggregates, so even if there is no physical body, there are the other aggregates. However, there is always the continuity of consciousness, the labeled base and the aggregates.
This present life's continuity of consciousness continued from our past life. Just as the continuity of today's consciousness continued from yesterday, like that the continuity of consciousness has no beginning. As the labeled base, the continuity of consciousness has no beginning, so the "I" or the self, which is labeled on that continuity of consciousness also has no beginning. As it has no beginning, the continuity of consciousness also has no end.
