All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.
The spirit seeks the spirit just as matter seeks matter.
Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.
At the end of this lifetime, you will leave this world. Your awareness field will stay together in a certain sense and then it will seek to return to things that are familiar. You will reincarnate.
You will be reborn. You will come from the inner to the outer again. This process goes on indefinitely.
At the moment of birth you are the product of everything that has occurred in every lifetime you’ve had.
The essence of your being reincarnates.
The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.
Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.
If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.
When you die in this life, you might be experiencing pain, but the structure of your perceptual field will determine your next lifetime. That structure has been determined by the way you have led this life.
At the time of death, whatever you have focused on the most will determine your next life.
What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.
The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.
The disembodied being stays in the same state of mind that it was in when it was embodied, unless it does something to change that while it is out of the body.
There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.
To be afraid of our next life because we don’t feel we’ve done a good job with this life is not wise. It creates unhappiness now.
If you’d like to have a better incarnation, then have one now. If that’s your attitude, just let go and meditate and try to be as wise and compassionate, as understanding as you can.
No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don’t become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.
Our knowledge, experience, and wisdom can assist us in gaining more from this life, which will correctly set up our next life.