If there isn't continuation of our karmic record (cause & effect)in future lives then this would have to be a grave injustice as there would be no accountability. We have law, rules, regulations, punishments everywhere throughout life in this world why should we be absconded in future lives. I find that the correlation between the 3 realms, 5 components & the 9 consciousness's serves as a good description of how this occurs. (4) Volition is the will that acts on the conception and motivates action. 8. Alaya- consciousness : Alaya is a Sanskrit word, which means 'store house'. Whatever we do with our body, mouth and body and thought through the above seven consciousness is referred to as "karma' and they all are stored in the Alaya-consciousness. When one dies, the consciousness, from the first to the seventh, will cease to function, but not the eighth consciousness. It will still function in the three existences of past, present and future. It is the consciousness, which continues to exist, retaining all karma. The common mortals may not believe in the existence of the eighth consciousness. It exists below the seventh consciousness. All good and bad are engraved in the eight consciousness. The effect will be manifested in the future existence. Nichiren Daishinin explains it in the Gosho "Letter from Sado" : "Both the crow's blackness and the heron's whiteness are actually the deep stains of their past karma." Our present life is the result of our eighth consciousness. The consciousness resides deep in the depth of our life called Amala-consciousness.
three realms of existence ［三世間］ ( san-seken): The realm of the five components, the realm of living beings, and the realm of the environment. This concept originally appeared in The Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom, and T’ien-t’ai (538–597) adopted it as a component of his doctrine of three thousand realms in a single moment of life. The concept of three realms of existence views life from three different standpoints and explains the existence of individual lives in the real world. The five components, a living being as their temporary combination, and that being’s environment all manifest the same one of the Ten Worlds at any given point in time."
He may have some useful information that are partial truths but has gone off on his own tangent away from Nichiren and the patriarchs of his lineage as many do!
If there isn't continuation of our karmic record (cause & effect)in future lives then this would have to be a grave injustice as there would be no accountability. We have law, rules, regulations, punishments everywhere throughout life in this world why should we be absconded in future lives. I find that the correlation between the 3 realms, 5 components & the 9 consciousness's serves as a good description of how this occurs.
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8. Alaya- consciousness : Alaya is a Sanskrit word, which means 'store house'. Whatever we do with our body, mouth and body and thought through the above seven consciousness is referred to as "karma' and they all are stored in the Alaya-consciousness.
When one dies, the consciousness, from the first to the seventh, will cease to function, but not the eighth consciousness. It will still function in the three existences of past, present and future. It is the consciousness, which continues to exist, retaining all karma. The common mortals may not believe in the existence of the eighth consciousness. It exists below the seventh consciousness. All good and bad are engraved in the eight consciousness. The effect will be manifested in the future existence.
Nichiren Daishinin explains it in the Gosho "Letter from Sado" :
"Both the crow's blackness and the heron's whiteness are actually the deep stains of their past karma."
Our present life is the result of our eighth consciousness.
The consciousness resides deep in the depth of our life called Amala-consciousness.
three realms of existence ［三世間］ ( san-seken): The realm of the five components, the realm of living beings, and the realm of the environment. This concept originally appeared in The Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom, and T’ien-t’ai (538–597) adopted it as a component of his doctrine of three thousand realms in a single moment of life. The concept of three realms of existence views life from three different standpoints and explains the existence of individual lives in the real world. The five components, a living being as their temporary combination, and that being’s environment all manifest the same one of the Ten Worlds at any given point in time."
@around 8mins...Where do we go after we die is nowhere he says but what does Nichiren say about previous and future lifetimes:
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He may have some useful information that are partial truths but has gone off on his own tangent away from Nichiren and the patriarchs of his lineage as many do!