By "evidence" I meant textual evidence from the Pali Canon supporting or contradicting the OP's proposal that "rebirth can't possibly involve future lives."
For example, from the Jhana Sutta:
"Again, there is the case where an individual... enters the second jhana... the third jhana... the fourth jhana... He regards whatever phenomena there that are connected with form, feeling, perception, fabrications, & consciousness, as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a disintegration, an emptiness, not-self. At the break-up of the body, after death, he reappears in conjunction with the devas of the Pure Abodes. This rebirth is not in common with run-of-the-mill people."
The expression, "at the break-up of the body, after death" is used in several suttas and is far from ambiguous.
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This Can Only Reaffirm That Re Birth Is A Moment To Moment Event & Nothing To Do With Future Lives.
Started by rockyysdt, 2012-02-04 18:54
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