法苑珠林 69.30

69.30

Regarding the sixteenth intermediate existence's path of succession: If one dies in a higher heaven and is reborn in a lower heaven, seeing its lotus flowers, gardens, and flowing ponds, they are all inferior. Having seen these forms, suffering from hunger and thirst arises; thirsting and yearning to obtain them, one goes there and is reborn. Thus, although both are rebirths in heaven, there are two kinds of intermediate existence and two kinds of signs of birth. This is called the sixteenth intermediate existence's path of succession.