Leaving aside that, to Buddhism, there is no ego whatsoever and to
speak of 'ego' is therefore 'untrue to what is' - :
"The only real continuity is a causal connection, a kind of
impersonal heredity. The flame that, in a given being, is the life of
that being, assumes in the course of that life a certain quality, a
certain habitus that will last and manifest itself in successive
combustions. (...) however, we must not again presume the continuity
of an individual substratum, of an "I"; we should bear in mind,
rather, the idea of a flame that moves from one branch (...) to
another, and we should take into special account only the particular
quality assumed by the fire in the one combustion that transfers
itself to the next. This is why there is no answer in the texts to
the question: Is it the same individual who feels the effect of a
preceding existence or is it another individual?" ('The Doctrine of
Awakening').
--- In
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Aikyo" <masamoto@...> wrote:
>
> Considering attentively the traditional doctrine
of the
> transmigration, doctrine more Hindu than Buddhist, we have to admit
that it
> is just a theory of which there is no possible demonstration, and
he who
> accepts it, do it by faith, even if it's a matter, so to say, of a
rational
> faith. For that reason Evola, in his books, talks of pre-existence,
of an
> impersonal heritage, but refrains prudently from supporting the
idea of a
> continuity of the conscious principle from a life to another. Here
he is in
> accordance with the Milindapanha and with the texts in Pâli
language, this
> is the most ancient Buddhist text. He does not exclude that the
continuity
> of the consciousness could be the very state of being of the archaic
> mankind, but asserting that already since the epoch of the
historical
> Buddha, this conscious, perennial principle, crossing like a silk
threat,
> the innumerable pearls symbolising the various existences, like in
the Vedic
> expression, does not correspond any longer to the reality, to the
real
> constitution of the human being, that, already during the sleep,
falls into
> states of reduced consciousness. Obviously he considers the
possibility of
> exceptions, like in the case of the Tibetan 'Tulkus' or of people
capable,
> by means of asceticism, to take possession again of the conscious
> transpersonal principle and to free them from the ego-awareness,
which is
> what passes away together with the physical body eventually.
>
> (transl. by Vandermok)
>