i like the traditional Buddhist simile of the flame.
as one torch dies down, another is lit from the fire of the old.
the new torch is obviously not the same as the old torch.
the fire passes from one to the other;
the new flame not the same as the old;
but the old giving birth to the new.
and this process happening every instant,
not just at the point of death.
so dying & being reborn as a different entity,
every infinitesimal moment of time.
as for the different realms of existence -
while i have no idea if this has any basis in reality,
or is just a wishful construct of my own mind -
i imagine them as different dimensions.
like the world of a fish under water,
or of a microbe in a bloodstream,
or, for that matter, the existence of a right-wing fascist,
is so different from our own; and yet the same.
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