Painter🌱 simile

Likening consciousness to a sunbeam entering through a window and becoming established on a wall or on the ground, the Buddha reveals how a future renewed existence comes to be through lust, delight, and craving.

Cyclic existence is without a conceivable beginning. Like a dog tied to a post, the uninstructed person stays bound to the five aggregates. The mind is more diverse than any picture or than the animal realm; like a painter, one produces only the aggregates. Seeing them as they truly are, there is no more coming to any state of existence.