Rebirth
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The process of coming back into saṃsāra after death.
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A long and entertaining debate with a skeptic who went to extravagant lengths to prove that there is no such thing as an afterlife.
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You seek something that cannot be obtained. I am sure that you will die from sadness: it is impossible to get the sun and moon
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They must have done a good deed to be experienced as pleasant either previously or later, or else at the time of death they undertook Right View. And that’s why, when their body broke up, after death, they were reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.
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And why, bhikkhus, do you call it form? ‘It is deformed,’ bhikkhus, therefore it is called form.
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Ānanda asks the Buddha about the six classes of people described by Pūraṇa Kassapa. The Buddha rejects them and proposes an alternate scheme.
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The snake, the scorpion, the centipede, the mongoose, the cat, the mouse, and the owl, or any other animals that creep away when they see people. Thus a being is reborn from a being; one is reborn through one’s deeds.
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Mendicants, there are three failures.
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Different levels of generosity lead to different rebirths.
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One who betters their birth, one who equals their birth, and one who fails their birth.
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In which the Buddha reassures a devout follower that it’s their habits of mind, not the mind’s exact state at the moment of death, which will determine their rebirth.
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Householders, if wife and husband want to see each other in both this life and the next, they should be equals in faith, ethics, generosity, and wisdom.
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Mendicants, three kinds of people are bound for a place of loss, bound for hell…
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With craving his companion, a man
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Beings go to a bad bourn
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… if this person were to die at this time, as if carried there he would be placed in heaven.
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…when one dwells contemplating danger in things that can fetter, there is no descent of consciousness…
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Suppose a stick was tossed up in the air. Sometimes it’d fall on its bottom, sometimes the middle, and sometimes the end. It’s the same for sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving.
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How to be reborn as a Nāga.
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Readings (10)
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… while the Theravādins have preserved the clearest and best-understood early texts referring to the in-between state, their philosophical posture prevented them from investigating and describing this in any detail. For that we shall have to listen to the other schools, starting with the Puggalavādins and Sarvāstivādins, as passed down through the Chinese and Tibetan traditions.
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A casual series of six, monthly day-longs discussing the nuances of rebirth: its theory, history, complications, evidence, and implications.
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