As I understand it, the difference in rebirth lays in the absence of a soul for a person. If there was a soul, we would be that soul, my body would just be a vessel for my soul ... but if I can say MY soul, then what am I? My answer is ... Nothing, we are nothing, or everithing ... in the sense of all the parts that conform me, that is: mind, senses, sensations, conciousness, and form (or body), that is the 5 aggregates, or the five parts that conform a persons self. But, when one of them is missing, the concept of persons disolves, leaving a nothing, that's why when someone's form aggregate (body) gets missing (dies) the person stop being that person.
What's left then? Karma, our actions, and the results of them, Karma can not be escaped, so as long as you produce Karma (by selfishly acting thinking at least a bit about you ... wich is mostly always) that Karma needs a result, so, if you "die" while still having unresolved Karma, you get born again (only Buddhas don't produce Karma, so they receive the results of any unresolved Karma during their last life, so when they die they don't get reborn again ... Nirvana!!! Yey!!!)
So, you are the result of your Karma, how you treated or thought about your body, results in your current body, how you cared for or used your mind, results in what you consider your current mind.
The analogy that works for me the best is the passing of a candle's flame. You ingnite a flame of a candle with another candle's flame, then the first one gets extinguished and the second one keeps burning. Is not the same flame, yet, is the product of the first one, making it kind of the first one, only in another place, but still is different because of it's context, the colour of the new candle, it's height, it's material.
So it's still you ... only is not you ... is you.
Hope it helps ... hope I wrote it right.
NaMasTe
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From the heart sutra:
Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha.
(Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an awakening, all-hail!)
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La llama de la segunda es otra que la llama de la primera. Pero en la llama segunda, algo de la primera permanece. Y si hubo una llama previa a la que hemos llamado primera, también estaría presente, de algún modo en la segunda. ¿Qué hay en la llama vital de cada uno de nosotros(as) que podamos identificar con la PRIMERA (Primigenia) de todas las llamas?
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