❝ During conception, even the physical substance on which the self is conventionally based - the egg and sperm - belongs to someone else, the parents; still you can say that it belongs to the self also. The body comes from someone else, but as son as the consciousness enters, it’s that new person’s body, embryo, fetus, or whatever you want to call it, even thought prior to that it wasn’t. So the physical constituents of the embryo come from two people; but as soon as the consciousness enters the mixed cell, the cell now belongs to the consciousness. ❞
- Dalai Lama’s “The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom”
- Dalai Lama’s “The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom”
