Core tenet of The Compost Rite
The body is borrowed matter.
Nothing you are made of was made for you, and none of it stops when you do.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The Compost Rite arrived at this from ecology rather than from any older tradition, and its members are frequently told that they have reinvented something. They agree readily — the line's own material notes that return-to-earth burial predates every named religion on this tree, and that arriving somewhere by a different road does not make you the first one there.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
Nothing you are made of was made for you.
The Compost Rite, opening line of the tending manual
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Time is a wheel, and this is the worst quarter of it.
Hinduism
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Existence as ordinarily lived is marked by dukkha.
Buddhism
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Life is everywhere, and it is graded.
Jainism
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The jinn.
Islam · figure
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Zhuangzi dreams the butterfly.
Taoism · story
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Kami inhabit all things.
Shinto
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