Gabriel
Just wanted to state that when i say ours or i its for convenience. Also im answering your questions in reguards to Dhamma language
Where did my love of red cars come from? Why do I really enjoy life? Do you think the tendencies of beings are purely a function of the experience which happens from conception to this moment?
I used red cars and life enjoyment just as a way of showing how experience can vary, its not to say that you do like red cars and i hate life
The tendencies of beings come from different factors, such as kamma and level of wisdom, which will effect how they react to certain situations or experiences
What about experience is experienced by aggregates? In what way do the aggregates experience?
In what way do the aggregates experience? Perception percieves, consciousness cognizes and so is aware, feeling feels, as buddha said, when there is painful feeling, its just painful feeling
How are you defining "self
Self is an error, an illusion, in reality there is no such thing as I or mine and so no craig. Self comes to be through craving and clinging "This is mine" so through clinging there has been birth of self and self grasping in a moment. This is why there is birth and death constantly and not when refering to the end of the body
If there is an experience of perception which is totally unique to the aggregates which result in my loving red cars
"You" dont love red cars, the ignorant craving has lead to a birth of "I" or "me" who loves red cars through craving/clinging to the pleasure that red cars bring to the senses because of ignorance
So I hear you saying that at different times different conditions act on "us". Well I may begin to dislike red cars but there will still be residual influence from craving red cars which will effect the experience of red cars. There appears this succession of apparent events none of which are completely without influence.
The "us" bit was for convention. To dislike red cars is still craving and your right there is succession of events, this is conditionality
How is coming forth different from ending?
What is it that birth comes forth to and death is the end of?
If they are interconnected as you say, at what point do they connect?
If there is a point at which death becomes birth is there a transition from death to birth or does death instantaneously become birth
Coming forth is different from ending because it is the birth of something new, ending is the expiring
Birth is the begining of whatever you like, you can say a new perception has been "born" or "I" have been born etc so birth is the coming forth of any new feeling, perception, idea etc which
can in turn be a bases for something else, death can refer to the end of that which is generated
They are connected or i should say, related via there dependencies, death depends on birth for exsistence, birth depends on death because without death there can be no birth, also but they arent the cause of each other directly, i.e. birth doesnt cause one to die, its just a condition for it so when there is birth, there will be death because of that condition that has been set forward. When something is born it must die, when it has died, if conditionality continues there will be a birth of something new. There cant be birth if there is no death and there cant be death if there is no birth
Death does not
become birth, its just that death allows for something new to rise if conditionlity continues, if there was no death there could be no more birth of "I" or "me" so there would be a permanent sense of self. This is illogical since all things that are conditioned are impermanent and subject to rise and fall.
If death didnt lead to birth then there would have been nibbana years ago
How many years ago? How are you defining nibbana here?
Nibbana is the end of all I-making and so the end of sense of self. If after the first time my sense of self or view of "I" died and that was the end of conditionality then there would be no more I-making and so it would be nibbana, the first time in this exisistence when my sense of self died for the first time was obviously as a child or younger. However because of dependent origination which is occuring in moments the death of "I" is not the end, since dependent origination has not been stopped a sense of self or "I" will be born again, therefore there can be birth after a death