Dear Robertk

> According to Theravada, cittas arise and pass away. They do not move
> around or fly from city to city or planet to planet. When a being
> dies the last cittas is cuti-citta. This citta does not pass on to
> the next life, but it is one of the conditions for a different
> citta to arise, somewhere.

Then how does your position account for this:

"But what one has done by body,
or by speech or mind:
This is what is truly one's own,
This one takes when one goes:
This is what follows one along
Like a shadow that never departs.
Therefore one should do what is good
As a collection for the future life.
Merits are the support for living beings
in the other world." [SN I 93 (Bhikkhu Bodhi p184-5)]

> One could be a human in Australia now and
> a split second later be reborn as an infernal being in a world far,
> far from this earth.

And if pigs had wings they might fly :) This is merely an assertion with no
probative value.

> Where did you find that the minimal duration of a citta
> is .003seconds?

The precise figure is not important for my argument but 1/75th (.003) sec is
mentioned in various modern sources -- got mine in this instance from a
book in Japanese on Buddhist cosmology.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge