Reborn

"He who is reborn, Nagasena, is he the same person or another?"

"Neither the same nor another."

"Giver me an illustration."

"In the case of a pot of milk that turns first to curds, then to butter, then to ghee; it would not be right to say that the ghee, butter, and curds were the same as the milk but they come from that so neither would be right to say that they are something else."

---The Milinda Panha; The Debate of King Milinda---