Re-birth is like having your own baby (child)

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I think re-birth is like having your own baby (child).
Your child is not you but not someone else.
The only difference is that re-birth occurs after your death.
You can't exist in two places the same time. Can we?
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Your child is someone else.
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you were different yesterday

you were someone else

many lifetimes have already passed :anjali:
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Your child is someone else.
I think this is Attaditthi.
I may be wrong though.
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SarathW wrote: Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:13 pm
Your child is someone else.
I think this is Attaditthi.
I may be wrong though.
I think that attaditthi is a belief or view. If upon reading "your child is someone else" the view of attaditthi arises then it has arisen. If upon reading "your child is someone else" some other view arises then some other view arises.

Attaditthi is a view which might arise upon reading something; it is not the thing which was read. Thinking that attaditthi is contained in a piece of text or that a piece of text IS attaditthi is another kind of self assumption I think.
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SarathW wrote: Wed Apr 18, 2018 9:13 pm
Your child is someone else.
I think this is Attaditthi.
I may be wrong though.
I think that there might be some confusion surrounding this because the text "your child is someone else" does not contain any context as to whether the discussion will be within the realm of right view with effluents or right view without effluents. Right view with effluents is a kind of view dealing with worldly matters like "there is mother and father"....so with respect to right view with effluents one would talk about different people being different people. Right view without effluents does not deal directly with these worldly presentations but rather deals with mental factors etc. dealing directly with liberation from worldly matters and it might respond to "your child is someone else" by reminding one of the not self doctrine.

While it is not impossible for there to be some crossover between these two kinds of views (and in fact I think that it is helpful to direct discernment towards that) it can also be confusing and lead to disagreement based on different people either approaching from rv/with effluents or rv/without effluents.

Further I think that for me that trying to rationalize the two kinds of right view with discussion does not lead to much and discussion for me is best kept to either one or the other while for me the crossover implications are best understood through direct experience.
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Born, become, arisen – made, prepared, short-lived
Bonded by decay and death – a nest for sickness, perishable
Produced by seeking nutriment – not fit to take delight in


Departure from this is peaceful – beyond reasoning and enduring
Unborn, unarisen – free from sorrow and stain
Ceasing of all factors of suffering – stilling of all preparations is bliss
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SarathW wrote: Wed Apr 18, 2018 10:38 am I think re-birth is like having your own baby (child).
Your child is not you but not someone else.
The only difference is that re-birth occurs after your death.
You can't exist in two places the same time. Can we?
In one case genes are transmitted, in the other kamma is transmitted?
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in the other kamma is transmitted?
The way I understand Kamma does not transmit.
Kamma has Vipaka.
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Hello:

I think that analogy its right in the sense that it was anatta perspective, you personally are not being reborn.
But on the other side, the same analogy feels like its taking away responsibility for your own actions, and the Buddha taught quite the opposite.

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the same analogy feels like its taking away responsibility for your own actions
In my opinion, you will become more responsible.
Will you do something bad today if you know someone else is going to suffer tomorrow because of your action?
Don't you have the love and ownership of your child?
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Interesting video.

“As the lamp consumes oil, the path realises Nibbana”
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