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The good ajahn was just saying that a belief in literal rebirth is not necessary for the practice but that insight may come naturally.

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If we stop looking upon our sensory experience as being so solid and absolute, we see that there are just these perceptions, and the knowing - the sense of awareness and being. This is the way that the mind is liberated, the way beyond birth and death. There was a woman staying here in January who had terminal cancer, she came to die here as a nun. This was during a monastic retreat period so we had a lot of opportunity to contemplate the dying process. One afternoon, as I was doing some walking meditation, it struck me very clearly that when you look upon your life as a succession of images that the mind is aware of, then why should that be broken by the moment of death? The body is something that is perceived in the mind so, at the moment of death, if there has been awareness of the body alive, then surely there will just be awareness of the body dead. The body dies -- just another perception in the mind. What that mind is attached to, where it goes, who it belongs to -- are all the north, south, east and west of the matter. They are questions which do not really apply.

Ajahn Amaro

http://www.abuddhistlibrary.com/Budd...y/no-empty.htm