Have an order , someone put VENumbers First Middle Last Name . How do I handle this ? What does it mean ? <| sep |> Even if reincarnation is true , why should I careDo , don ' t . the wheel doesn ' t really care . why should it affect my life in any wayWell , your life is a continuum given your premise , I ' m not asserting my own belief or not , here . The fact that it is a continuum obviously affects it . that person that I reincarnate into , isn ' t meThat ' s true in fact , it ' s a tautology given one definition of me that is , the cumulative sense of self that develops from birth in a single physical entity . There ' s a wide variety of notions of rebirth and reincarnation . If you are speaking of the more Western notion of reincarnation wherein the soul is more or less the superego , but can reattach itself to another physical body upon death , then I won ' t be addressing that , here . I don ' t have much to say about that kind of reincarnation , as I think it ' s rather naive . On the other hand , the more Eastern notion of a rebirth where the abstraction of the self gives rise to many incarnations makes much more sense to me . The classic notion of Buddhist rebirth is that eddies in a river are not entirely standalone entities . The interplay of forces within the river give rise to them , and while the fading of one eddy and the rise of another are not the same they are related in a way that has some persistent state . So , that eddy a future self is not the first your current self , you are correct . There is no 11 mapping between them , yet the metaself which in Eastern terms is the Atman , has the same relationship to both . You are the star that gave rise to the elements which make up your body , to put it in crudely physical terms . For buddhist about acheiving non self or something , where I already achieved that goal from dying . I may be misreading your sentence , here it was hard to parse but I think you are stating one of the foundational ideas of Buddhism , here . You could argue that the mountain is perfectly enlightened . It has no sense of ephemeral self to get in the way of emptiness . But there is a quality of introspection which , when applied to emptiness , is more than the sum of its parts . This is the Buddha nature . I ' m not a Buddhist , but I can respect the notion , here . It should be noted , however , that this assertion does not depend on an understanding of rebirth .