Selected Lectures on the Sūtra of the Collection of the Father and Son (Pitāputrasamāgamanasūtra)

Original text:佛言大王。如是如是。愚痴异生。寡闻无智。于可意触。而生爱乐。心生染着。造如是业。身业三种。语业四种。意业三种。造作彼业。刹那迁谢。是业灭已。不依东方。南西北方。四维上下。中间而住。至命终时。见先所作。心想中现。如彼睡觉。忆梦中事。最后识灭。自业现前。

Explanation: The Buddha said: Great King, it is indeed so. Foolish ordinary beings (pṛthagjana), of little learning and lacking wisdom, give rise to love and delight toward agreeable contact, their minds become defiled and attached, and they create such karma—three kinds of bodily karma, four kinds of verbal karma, and three kinds of mental karma. Having created these karmic actions, the karmic formations pass away and dissolve moment by moment. After these karmic formations cease, they do not abide in the east, south, west, or north, the four intermediate directions, above, below, or the middle. But at the time of death, one sees the deeds one previously performed appearing within one's mind, just like a person waking from sleep who recalls the events of a dream. When the last consciousnesses cease, one's own karma manifests before one.

Foolishness is ignorance (avidyā)—not understanding anything: not understanding what the five aggregates (pañcaskandha) are, not understanding that the five aggregates are illusory, not understanding that all dharmas are unreal, not understanding that this false self is an assemblage, not understanding how to break through it, not understanding how to escape the cycle of the six realms of rebirth, not understanding how to attain the bodhisattva's fruits, not understanding how to realize one's original face, the self-natured pure mind, and even not understanding how to become a Buddha—understanding none of it at all. This is called foolishness and ignorance.

For a living being currently alive, when this span of life ends, in the next period of time, in another place, it will be born again into the realm that corresponds to its habitual tendencies and karmic force. When the time, place, and physical body all change, this is called "different" (anya). After sentient beings die, usually the body, time, identity, location, and the space in which they live all change. Hungry ghosts have the space of hungry ghosts, asuras have the space of asuras, hell-beings have the space of hells, and devas have the space of devas; animals are together with humans, also on the surface of this earth, but their living environment is still different. When the living environment changes, when one switches to a different life form and is transformed into another kind of living being, this is called being an ordinary being (pṛthagjana, "differently-born one").