[Bobobsdo]

If someone lives with awareness and mindfulness in the here and now, with a peaceful, quiet mind, without any speculation about past or future, and they die letting go of any clinging to this present life, or desire for the future, who or what is reborn?



"The desire for rebirth at the time of death is a desire to be reborn again in the human form. We can only know this through watching how our mind works. If you were dying and you didn't want to die what would be the most likely thing to arise in your mind ? It would be a desire to cling to some form of life.

Some passion of your life would arise in your dying moment and that desire would be for some form of materialisation. The momentum of your habits are always materialising in forms, arent they? You're always seeking what you desire, either a sense desire, or an intellectual desire, or a desire to repress something you dont like.

But if you are mindful when you die, if there's no longing to have another rebirth or to take some action, what is there to be reborn again ?"

(Ajahn Sumdho - The Mind and the Way)