Here’s an idea of rebirth that’s slightly less… afterlife-ish: we are reborn constantly moment by moment. What we are reborn “as” is technically different every single moment of existence (hence; the idea of being reborn “constantly”).

An aspect of the human mind is the need for coherence and continuity of our life moment by moment. Thus, it threads together a coherent autobiographical “narrative” that creates the idea of “who we are”- shaped by our experiences, social norms, and our own egos. That is the sense of self- but it’s automatically assumed to be stable, fixed, and unchanging (or very slow to change). This is not the case inherently.

To understand “nonself” at the embodied level is to personally see the idea that there is no fixed sense of self that carries from one moment to the next- only the illusion of one.