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Humans are different in many ways such as their physical conditions, personality, and intellectual abilities. What makes these diversities exist? In Buddhism, especially vijnapti-matrata, an answer to this subject comes from Bija(seed) theory. A seed is the one into which mental and physical behaviors are planted in Alayavijnana with the from of habituated memory. All of present experiences are, without exception, learned and habituated, resulting in seed. Then, the seed makes effects on one's future thoughts and behaviors in direct or indirect ways; with its functioning as a potential power which determines what one will be like in the future, ones's all thoughts and behaviors, under the impact of previously accumulated experiences, remains in the limit of learning and habit of the past.
Therefore, a seed is a trace of the past experiences as well as a power to make results in the future. It connects the past, present, and future, relating the karmic power of the past to the future.