Re: FW: previous or past lives?

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> ===========In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Norman Joseph Smith"
> <josmith.1@...> wrote>
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> > linging aggregates]".
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> > As well as that it is not surprising to me, thinking the
> > physiological interpretaion of the three insight knowledges
> > [tevijjaa] is a later teaching, that these ideas are usually

found

> > in Nikaayan texts that most scholars take as later texts, i.e.
> > Anguttara and Diigha as opposed to Majjhima and Samyutta.
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> Anyway I have copies of the Majjhima and Samyutta and will see if
> there are any references to past/future lives.
> RobertK

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Dear jou,
I had a look through the majjima and samyutta and found many
references to rebirth.
I trust these examples suffice:
Saccasamyutta (p1885 Bodhi)
"so too bhikkhus those beings are few who when they pass away as
human beings are reborn as human beings. but numerous are those who,
when they pass away are reborn in hell.."

Khandavagga (samyutta nikaya)p1026
here bhikkhus someone practises good conduct of body, speech and
mind....then with the break-up of the body he is reborn in the
company of devas who dwell in fragrant roots"
RobertK