How does the analogy of the broken pot explain the nature of death and existence?

In Chapter 37, the analogy of the broken pot serves to illustrate that death is a destruction of form, not of existence itself. The text explains that when a pot is broken with a stone, only its form is destroyed. The underlying "pot-existence" is not lost; it continues to exist within the broken pieces. This is used to make a larger philosophical point: the dissolution of an effect is eternally established in its underlying existence. Applying this to a person, the text concludes that the passing of someone's body, which is an effect, "does not end in nothingness." It is merely a change in form, while the essential existence, like the essence of the clay in the pot shards, remains.