new interpretation of samsara and patisandhi from my experience.

I have two heartbreaking memories. The first, one day while I was a senior in high school and not at home, my mother died with cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 47. Later, I was told from my father she was dolefully calling my name until her death. The second, on early spring day of 11 years ago, my first daughter suddenly died of brain cancer at the age of 21. These sad stories are presented just for the opening of next cases that are hard for you to accept as true.

case 1. It was one of holiday when I and wife's cousin stayed at home with the 2 years old first daughter just started learning to speak while my wife went out for a couple of errands to do. At that time, I was sitting on the floor then my toddling baby came to me and said twice, oh my baby son! oh my baby son! with patting my head. I and wife's cousin astonished but can not understand the situation because I had no knowledge about samsara(round of rebirth) and patisandhi(rebirth). I only guessed that did my mother's ghost came temporarily? Since then, such things never again. Although she looks quite mature for her age through during the process of growing up.

case 2. There is a video on the internet that may be a more reliable evidence for the samsara and patisadhi.(American child in Louisiana)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54FluHgwFXc&feature=youtu.be

Among the three normal deaths in Abidhamma-sangaha or Visuddhimagga, in the case of the death with which the mental life span is still left but the physical life span is over, it will be born again in the same world and live only within the span of mental life that has not yet used in the previous life. In addition, according to these books, the last follow-up-process(javana) at the moment of death takes one of three things(the kamma, the representation of kamma, the representation of the place to be born ) as the object(ārammana), and the next life is determined by the object(ārammana).

I was told from my father my mother was dolefully calling my name until her death. So it is very likely that she was targeting me(soogar) as a "representation of kamma" at the time of her death. If all the contents mentioned above are summed up, it could be inferred that the dead mother has reborn as my daughter and died after living within the span of mental life that has not yet used in the previous life.

At first glance, this reasoning seems to be countering the theory of Theravada because there is 13 years gap between the mother's death and daughter's birth.(The next life begins immediately after death according to the theory of Theravada that does not allows intermediate-life.) However, the 13 years gap is actually not a gap in the view of kamma(thought-system) because the time begins to flow after receiving the body. Therefore, I can not say that my reasoning is definitely wrong.

As you can see from the two cases above, the memory of the past life no longer affects the current life after setting up the self-consciousness of 'I' at age around 3 which is distinct from the previous life. To be precise, the memories of past lives are still there, but the pointers needed to access them seem to be broken. The evidence for this is that the Buddha who has mastered the threefold-knowledge(te-vijja) said "I also remember the names, status, and appearance of my many previous lives." D17, A9:20, A3:15, D19, M83, A9:20.

On the basis of the contents above, I'm writing down several my opinions as a kind of conclusion about samsara(round of rebirth) and patisandhi(rebirth). (1) The subject of rebirth is kamma(thout-system) and no one knows the origination of the rebirth. (2) The mental life span is determined when the kamma(thought-system) becomes rebirth. (3) The recycled kamma(thought-system) undergoes numerous changes driven by paṭiccasamuppāda(nibbana‘s idiosyncrasy of building paccaya) through the life span. (4) Such changed kamma(thought-system) will be lead again to the next life until perfect vimutti(experiencing nibbana).

Finally, let's think about a following proposition together! 2600 years ago, at three different areas on earth, by three different saints, same thing was yelled like the roaring of a lion. "Know about yourself(Socrates)!" "Stay on yourself(Gottama)!" "Practice for yourself(Confucius)!" These three people replicated from the same kamma(thought-system) with in different bodies and places, didn't it? Without the replication of kamma(thought-system), there is no way to explain by Buddhism the 7 billion of present population on earth.(fin)

.(2016.11.06)

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