When does the consciousness enter into the womb ?
Anytime ? Right after one's death ? Right after 49 days ?
When the 5 senses has developed ?
Within 49 days after one's death.
very hard to say
According to Yogacara teaching ,some ghost spirit can still be reborn..it all depends on their karmic energy
Originally posted by bohiruci:very hard to say
According to Yogacara teaching ,some ghost spirit can still be reborn..it all depends on their karmic energy
Yes but very hard, will take a longer time. But by dedicating merits to them we can cause them to reborn faster.
Originally posted by Isis:When does the consciousness enter into the womb ?
Anytime ? Right after one's death ? Right after 49 days ?
When the 5 senses has developed ?
if refering to consciousness, afaik, it's during conception.
"All the living beings are originally pure. But, the arising of a single false thought out of delusion in the past leads to the creation of activities. Because of activities, there create karmic forces, and hence leads to the arising of consciousness to enter the womb. The consciousness that enters the womb will lead to the formation of a foetus presently. When there is a foetus, it is then complete with the six roots such as eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind."
The Dharani Sutra of the Buddha on LongevityThe Extinction of Offences And the Protection of Young Children
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~alankhoo/Longevity.htm
In addition, this Sutra is perhaps the first to introduce the statement, repeated in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, that during conception the transmigrating consciousness, driven by an intense "oedipal" desire, will enter the womb and become male if it is attracted to its future mother and repulsed by its father, or female if attracted to its future father and repulsed by its mother. These intense, disruptive emotions of desire and hatred--which lie at the very heart of the ongoing cycle of rebirth--propel the consciousness into its new existence.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/dead/sutras.html
Usually, when beings are reborn into human realm, the consciousness will first cling to a body and then enter the womb. Of course with the present technology it is not able to detect the conception of consciousness in the womb. What we can see is only the gradual process of growing. The conception of consciousness is caused by greed and attachment and these are very hard to get rid of. It needs the natural transformation of the mind. Therefore, we visualize our mind and dissolves into "HIRI", which will transform the bodies of sentient beings into the bodies of Chenrezig.
http://www.dhagpo-kagyu.org/anglais/science-esprit/fondements/general/attitude2.htm
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