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What is it?

Some Buddhist teachings talk about the mindstream that goes on from life to life.

What is that?

Is it a universal mindstream?

Or are there individual mindstreams?

If the latter, how does that work?

How does it mesh with the idea that nothing has inherent existence?

Are the mindstreams beyond cause and effect?

Or are the mindstreams like water streams and rivers?

Those can easily be seen to be mere effects of the causes provided by landscape and weather.

Are these mindstreams subject to this cause and effect?

Or is it better to forget about "life to life mindstreams" and just to work on what we experience now?