諸經要集 12.96

12.96

Sixteenth, regarding the path of continuation of the intermediate existence: if one is reborn from a higher heaven down into a lower heaven, seeing the various lotuses, parks, groves, and flowing ponds, they are all inferior. Having seen this, afflicted by hunger and thirst, with longing desire to attain them, one goes and is born there. Thus, though both are born in heaven, two kinds of intermediate existence have two kinds of signs of birth. This is called the path of continuation of the sixteenth intermediate existence.