february8

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 is belongs

to the self also. The body comes from

someone else, but as soon as the

consciousness enters, it’s that new

person’s body, embryo, foetus, or

whatever you want to call it, even

through prior to that it wasn’t. So, the

physical constituents of the embryo

come from two different people,

but as soon as the consciousness

enters the mixed cell, that cell now

belongs to the consciousness.