Something I've wondered.
How much continuity of identity, if any, do Boddhisattvas experience as between incarnations?
It's hard for me to imagine that almost all of the components of identity - memory, personality, cognition - arent devastated or obliterated by death, but then again, I'm not any kind of a yogi.
Do Boddhisatvas experience a continuity of identity?
Re: Do Boddhisatvas experience a continuity of identity?
M.G. wrote:Something I've wondered.
How much continuity of identity, if any, do Boddhisattvas experience as between incarnations?
It's hard for me to imagine that almost all of the components of identity - memory, personality, cognition - arent devastated or obliterated by death, but then again, I'm not any kind of a yogi.
Depends on how high. 8th stage on up, yes.
Re: Do Boddhisatvas experience a continuity of identity?
Source?Malcolm wrote:M.G. wrote:Something I've wondered.
How much continuity of identity, if any, do Boddhisattvas experience as between incarnations?
It's hard for me to imagine that almost all of the components of identity - memory, personality, cognition - arent devastated or obliterated by death, but then again, I'm not any kind of a yogi.
Depends on how high. 8th stage on up, yes.
"Deliberate upon that which does not deliberate."
-Yaoshan Weiyan (tr. chintokkong)
若覓真不動。動上有不動。
"Search for what it really is to be unmoving in what does not move amid movement."
-Huineng (tr. Mark Crosbie)
ཚེ་འདི་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ཆོས་པ་མིན། །
འཁོར་བ་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ངེས་འབྱུང་མིན། །
བདག་དོན་ལ་ཞེན་ན་བྱང་སེམས་མིན། །
འཛིན་པ་བྱུང་ན་ལྟ་བ་མིན། །
-Yaoshan Weiyan (tr. chintokkong)
若覓真不動。動上有不動。
"Search for what it really is to be unmoving in what does not move amid movement."
-Huineng (tr. Mark Crosbie)
ཚེ་འདི་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ཆོས་པ་མིན། །
འཁོར་བ་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ངེས་འབྱུང་མིན། །
བདག་དོན་ལ་ཞེན་ན་བྱང་སེམས་མིན། །
འཛིན་པ་བྱུང་ན་ལྟ་བ་མིན། །
Re: Do Boddhisatvas experience a continuity of identity?
This is the stage in which bodhisattvas attain power over birth. Source, Abhisamayalaṃkāra, etc.Temicco wrote:Source?Malcolm wrote:M.G. wrote:Something I've wondered.
How much continuity of identity, if any, do Boddhisattvas experience as between incarnations?
It's hard for me to imagine that almost all of the components of identity - memory, personality, cognition - arent devastated or obliterated by death, but then again, I'm not any kind of a yogi.
Depends on how high. 8th stage on up, yes.
Re: Do Boddhisatvas experience a continuity of identity?
Thanks.Malcolm wrote:This is the stage in which bodhisattvas attain power over birth. Source, Abhisamayalaṃkāra, etc.Temicco wrote:Source?Malcolm wrote:
Depends on how high. 8th stage on up, yes.
"Deliberate upon that which does not deliberate."
-Yaoshan Weiyan (tr. chintokkong)
若覓真不動。動上有不動。
"Search for what it really is to be unmoving in what does not move amid movement."
-Huineng (tr. Mark Crosbie)
ཚེ་འདི་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ཆོས་པ་མིན། །
འཁོར་བ་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ངེས་འབྱུང་མིན། །
བདག་དོན་ལ་ཞེན་ན་བྱང་སེམས་མིན། །
འཛིན་པ་བྱུང་ན་ལྟ་བ་མིན། །
-Yaoshan Weiyan (tr. chintokkong)
若覓真不動。動上有不動。
"Search for what it really is to be unmoving in what does not move amid movement."
-Huineng (tr. Mark Crosbie)
ཚེ་འདི་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ཆོས་པ་མིན། །
འཁོར་བ་ལ་ཞེན་ན་ངེས་འབྱུང་མིན། །
བདག་དོན་ལ་ཞེན་ན་བྱང་སེམས་མིན། །
འཛིན་པ་བྱུང་ན་ལྟ་བ་མིན། །
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Re: Do Boddhisatvas experience a continuity of identity?
Then what happens to Bodhisattvas on lower grounds? Say if someone attained kensho or a lower ground what happens to that attainment in the next life?Malcolm wrote:M.G. wrote:Something I've wondered.
How much continuity of identity, if any, do Boddhisattvas experience as between incarnations?
It's hard for me to imagine that almost all of the components of identity - memory, personality, cognition - arent devastated or obliterated by death, but then again, I'm not any kind of a yogi.
Depends on how high. 8th stage on up, yes.
Re: Do Boddhisatvas experience a continuity of identity?
Thank you Malcolm.Malcolm wrote:This is the stage in which bodhisattvas attain power over birth. Source, Abhisamayalaṃkāra, etc.Temicco wrote:Source?Malcolm wrote:
Depends on how high. 8th stage on up, yes.