Dear
I just wanted to remind you of the 20th type of rebirth linking. THis occurs but without any rebirth linking consciousness. I am sure you know about this very well.

May All Beings Be Well and Happy
Bhante

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Nina van Gorkom <vangorko@...> wrote:
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> Dear friends,
>
> Rebirth in different planes of existence. (part 1)
>
> Akusala kamma and kusala kamma of different beings can produce
> nineteen different types of rebirth-consciousness, pa.tisandhi-citta,
> in all, arising in different planes of existence. The
> pa.tisandhicitta is vipaakacitta, the result of kamma. One
> pa.tisandhi-citta is akusala vipaaka and eighteen types are kusala
> vipaaka. There are many degrees of each of these nineteen types of
> pa.tisandhi-citta because the kamma that produces them can be of many
> degrees.
> Birth in a woeful plane is the result of a bad deed and birth in a
> happy plane is the result of a good deed. Since the deeds of beings
> are of many different degrees of kusala and akusala, the results are
> of many different degrees as well. The pa.tisandhi-citta that is
> akusala vipaakacitta arises in an unhappy plane of existence and the
> pa.tisandhi-citta that is kusala vipaakacitta arises in a happy plane
> of existence. A plane of existence is the place where one is born.
> There are different woeful planes and different happy planes of
> existence.
> Only one type of pa.tisandhi-citta is akusala vipaaka, but it is of
> many degrees. There are many varieties of akusala kamma and thus
> there must be many varieties of an unhappy rebirth. The unhappy
> rebirth we can see in this world is birth as an animal. Apart from
> the animal world there are three more classes of woeful planes, which
> we cannot see; they are the world of petas (ghosts), the world of
> asuras (demons), and the hell planes. There are different kinds of
> hell planes because there are many degrees of akusala kamma which
> produce different kinds of unhappy rebirth.
> The akusala vipåka in hell is more intense than the sufferings which
> can be experienced in the human plane. The descriptions of hells in
> the Buddhist teachings are not merely allegories; the experience of
> unpleasant things through eyes, ears, nose, tongue and bodysense is
> akusala vipaaka and akusala vipaaka is reality. Life in a hell plane
> is not permanent; when one's lifespan in a hell plane is over there
> can be rebirth in another plane.
> Birth as a human being is a happy rebirth. In the human plane there
> is opportunity for the development of kusala. One can study Dhamma
> and learn to develop the way leading to the end of defilements, to
> the end of birth and death. Birth in the human plane is kusala
> vipaaka, but during one's lifespan in this plane there are both
> kusala vipaaka and akusala vipaaka. Each person experiences different
> results in life: there are gain and loss, honour and dishonour,
> praise and blame, happiness and misery. It is due to kamma whether
> someone is born into pleasant or unpleasant surroundings, whether he
> belongs to a family which is well-to-do or which is poor. The
> experience of pleasant and unpleasant things through eyes, ears,
> nose, tongue and bodysense are the results of kamma.
> Other happy planes, apart from the human plane, are the heavenly
> planes. In the heavenly planes there is more kusala vipåka than in
> the human plane and less akusala vipåka. There are several heavenly
> planes and although life in a heavenly plane lasts a very long time,
> it is not permanent. The woeful planes, the human plane and the six
> heavenly planes which are deva planes, are sensuous planes of
> existence. Sensuous planes of existence are planes where there is
> seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, the experience of tangible object
> through the bodysense and other kaamaavacara cittas (cittas which are
> of the sensuous plane of consciousness). There are eleven classes of
> sensuous planes of existence in all.
> In the "Discourse on the Lesser Analysis of Deeds" (Middle Length
> Sayings III, number 135) we read that Subha asks the Buddha what the
> cause is of the different results human beings experience from the
> time of their birth:
>
> "Now, good Gotama, what is the cause, what is the reason that lowness
> and excellence are to be seen among human beings while they are in
> human form? For, good Gotama, human beings of short lifespan are to
> be seen and those of long lifespan; those of many and those of few
> illnesses; those who are ugly, those who are beautiful; those who are
> of little account, those of great account; those who are poor, those
> who are wealthy; those who are of lowly families, those of high
> families; those who are weak in wisdom, those who are full of wisdom."
>
> The Buddha answered Subha:
> "Deeds are one's own, brahman youth, beings are heirs to deeds, deeds
> are matrix, deeds are kin, deeds are arbiters. Deed divides beings,
> that is to say by lowness and excellence."
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> Nina.
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