[juyrett]

It is a difficult concept for anyone, Kaarine, me included. As far as I can tell, there is no 'one' who experiences rebirth, the continuation of being in a next life. If you read the Milinda Panha Sutta that I quoted above, you get the idea a little closer, I hope. In particular, the way that 'something' is continued when a teacher teaches a poem to a student and the student retains it. It's not reincarnation. No 'thing' like a soul or being passes on, but it's not nothing, either. It's just a series of causes and effects. Not a person. Just like the first flame doesn't itself continue into the second flame, but it's a necessary condition for the second flame. The chain of conditioned phenomena continues uninterrupted, but no 'thing' or being is being passed on. That's my best understanding at the moment, anyway.