The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 229 of 254
Where reincarnation gets slippery
This is where I think the doctrine of reincarnation gets slippery. On the one hand, for it to make any sense, it clearly can’t involve the straightforward transference of one life to another body. You have a set of memories, plans, projects, friends and family. All of these things do not continue in whatever the next life is. So there is something which is obliterated at death and does not continue, something which seems to be very important to who we are. People like Akong seem to accept this, which is why they talk about spaces and buildings. Yet it is not difficult to elicit certain trains of thought – such as the karmic consequences on future incarnations of our present actions – which seem to make these spaces much more building-like after all.