Thursday, 26 April 2018

What the Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula








It is a series that continues unbroken, but changes every moment.  The series is, really speaking, nothing but movement.  It is like a flame that burns through the night; it is not the same flame nor is it another.  A child grows up to be a man of sixty.  Certainly the man of sixty is not the same as the child of sixty years ago, nor is he another person.  Similarly, a person who dies here and is reborn elsewhere is neither the same person, nor another.  It is the continuity of the same series.