Greetings Tilt
So I [the Buddha], monks being liable to birth because of self, having known the perils in what is liable to birth, seeking freedom from birth, the uttermost security from the bonds -- nibbana -- won freedom from birth [ajata], the uttermost security from the bonds -- nibbana...."
Liable to birth because of self, as in when there is self there is oppurtunity for more ignorance to lead on to more birth of "I am" and more dukkha etc
The Buddha understood how he was liable to birth (of another "I am") because of self since a sense of "self" is based on that which ages and dies (through ignorance) and so that "I" will age and die which leads onto dukkha and ignorance which will lead to another "I am" due to clinging and so, because of Anicca, another death of "I am" and so more dukkha and more ignorance which will lead on again to clinging and another sense of "I am" which will "die" and so lead onto dukkha and more ignorance and so on if wisdom is not there, but with wisdom one sees the escape of this pointless merry go around
(which includes the merry go around of speculative views that come from "I am" such as rebirth, no rebirth, will i be, wont i be, annihilationism, eternalism, atheism, nihilism, theism, monotheism, polytheism, and some weird exsistence and non exsistence as well of all the other views of "am i now, was i then, will i be there, who am i, where do i come from etc)
What is the perils in what is liable to birth? When there is birth of "I am" there is clinging to that which is marked by Anicca, when there is change in that which is clung to there will be dukkha
"Then the group of five monks, being thus exhorted, this instructed by me [the Buddha], being liable to birth because of self, having known the perils in what is liable to birth, seeking freedom from birth, the uttermost security from the bonds -- nibbana [nirvana] -- won freedom from birth [ajata], the uttermost security from the bonds -- nibbana...." Majjhima Nikaya I 167 and 173.
Once again if you take birth as meaning rebirth then you make it out that the Buddha had a speculative view, his own teachings were ending all dukkha here and now, which includes putting an end to all speculative views about past and future (which rebirth view is)
The Buddha and his wisdom are beyond all speculative views as he has understood the khandas fully and so doesnt cling to them as self
"A 'position,' Vaccha, is something that a Tathagata has done away with. What a Tathagata sees is this: 'Such is form, such its origin, such its disappearance; such is feeling, such its origin, such its disappearance; such is perception... such are mental fabrications... such is consciousness, such its origin, such its disappearance.' Because of this, I say, a Tathagata — with the ending, fading out, cessation, renunciation, & relinquishment of all construings, all excogitations, all I-making & mine-making & obsession with conceit — is, through lack of clinging/sustenance, released."
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"Then the group of five monks, being thus exhorted, this instructed by me [the Buddha], being liable to birth because of self, having known the perils in what is liable to birth, seeking freedom from birth, the uttermost security from the bonds -- nibbana [nirvana] -- won freedom from birth [ajata], the uttermost security from the bonds -- nibbana...." Majjhima Nikaya I 167 and 173.
Only if you put rebirth in
1st Noble Truth
This is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering;
in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
The last bit is important for understanding, it states that all that was mentioned before can be summed up in brief via "aggregates being subject to clinging". So therefor when there is clinging to the aggregates there is birth, as in birth of "I am" not physical birth of khandas which are Void of a self
(btw there is clinging to the aggregates all the time rising and falling throughout life so jati here means birth of "I am" not physical birth since this, as we know, only happens once in life)
As I said because of clinging to khandas there is "I am". When there is "I am" there is identiciation with the Khandas, when there is identification there is ageing, sickness and death (and also the whole not wanting to get sick, grief, anger etc that go hand in hand with that)
So even the first noble truth doesnt include rebirth specualtive view
Metta