[NEWyear]

But do you really have a choice ?

Of course!

You might want to know that the Buddha soundly refuted determinism.

Whichever I adopt is a matter of pure faith (I leave out “evidence” for and against other alternatives here).

What Nyanamoli fails to grasp is that the Buddha took a fourth choice of acknowledging that speculative views about death are irrelevant to that problem of suffering. This choice is based in discernment, rather than the blind faith Nyanamoli advocates.

Nyanamoli discards the use of evidence, and in doing so he discards the Buddha's own liberative teachings, which are based entirely in discernment and examination of evidence.