In the Bāhiya Sutta, the Buddha appears to provide instructions on unmediated awareness. That which is seen (diṭṭha), heard (suta), sensed (muta), and cognized (viññāta) are simply seen, heard, sensed, and cognized. 1/
Likewise, rebirth is a construct that helps with conceptually organizing the impersonal processes of cause and effect (also constructs) across time (another construct). 4/
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As a construct, "rebirth" helps demarcate frameworks of shifting karmic momentum (yet another construct) but does not require personal continuity of an unchanging substance. 5/
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One can perhaps visualize this through either the Heraclitean notion "one never steps in the same river twice" or the first law of thermodynamics pertaining to the conservation of energy, which is constantly transforming. No self persists in either of these cases. 6/
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