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| Nov 16, 2018 at 2:36 | comment | added | user13375 | Catch yourself believing that rebirth after death utterly does not exist while rebirth from moment to moment in this life does exist in some more substantial way... disbelief in the former is just reinforcing belief in the latter aka atman. Hope all this raving helps somebody... off to be reborn again in this very life :) | |
| Nov 16, 2018 at 2:33 | comment | added | user13375 | I hold that rebirth after break up of the body and rebirth from moment to moment exist in the exact same manner and to the exact same extent: both are unreal and illusion-like. Why? Because all things are unreal and illusion-like. Nothing exists substantially. All things are illusion-like. | |
| Nov 16, 2018 at 2:30 | comment | added | user13375 | Why do some insist that the Buddha never taught or acknowledged rebirth after break up of the body, but insist that Buddha was always talking about or acknowledging (re)birth as happening in this very life from moment to moment with arising of self-view? Does the former utterly not exist while the latter actually does exist in some more substantial way than the former? If the latter exists in some more substantial way than the former then what goes from moment to moment in this very life if not atman? And if atman can go from moment to moment in this very life, then why not after death? | |
| Nov 16, 2018 at 2:02 | comment | added | user13375 | What is reborn from moment to moment in this very life? Is it real and substantial? If not, then is rebirth in this very life from moment the same or different from rebirth at the break up of the body? Why do some insist vehemenently that the latter does not exist at all, but have no passion at all for refuting that rebirth in this very life exists? Why is one utterly non-existent (rebirth after death) while the other is not utterly non-existent? I proffer that it is because those persons think that atman is real and exists in this very life and then utterly ends at death. | |
| Nov 15, 2018 at 10:34 | comment | added | ChrisW♦ | There's an apparently-opposite view to that, i.e. that "the atman cannot be reborn because there is no atman". | |
| Nov 15, 2018 at 0:10 | history | answered | user13375 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |