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Kaarine, dear, might you re-phrase your question, as I am not sure I quite understand what it is you are asking. It seems to me you might have mentioned that you are a native German-speaker, and if I might be able to get it if you say it in German, too.



I scanned over Bodhi's essay a bit more, and found him going on about the "re-birth" of the "stream of consciousness", as if he had never laid eyes on the Buddha's humiliation of Bhikkhu Sati in the Maha Tanhasankhaya Sutta MN 38 (Sati also had claimed that the Buddha taught that consciousness transmigrated from one life to another) at all. Perhaps he had one of his students do the editing of Nanamoli's translation of this sutta in his place....?:


But even death, the Buddha teaches, does not bring us to the end of dukkha, for the life process does not stop with death. When life ends in one place, with one body, the "mental continuum," the individual stream of consciousness, springs up again elsewhere with a new body as its physical support. Thus the cycle goes on over and over — birth, aging, and death — driven by the thirst for more existence.


The Buddha taught none of the above. Curious, how quickly Bodhi apparently forgets his own assessment, just two paragraphs earlier, of the Buddha's dismissal of the concerns of "right view that is defiled", the speculative theological and metaphysical worldviews that preceded Him:



This fact of dukkha, the Buddha says, is the only real spiritual problem. The other problems — the theological and metaphysical questions that have taunted religious thinkers through the centuries — he gently waves aside as "matters not tending to liberation." What he teaches, he says, is just suffering and the ending of suffering, dukkha and its cessation.


It is rather illuminating to look at Bodhi's criticism of Nanavira's exposition of paticcasamuppada, in light of Mettiko Bhiokkhu's analysis of the two. Bodhi concerns himself primarily with "right view with asavas" and sees it as the highest thing": he sees "dukkha" as equating "round of reincarnations/re-births", and sees the ultimate goal of the Buddha's teachings as being annihilation, as "hopping off that round", while the Buddha clearly deleneates what "duhhka" is (not getting what one wants, getting what one doesn't want, etc), and declares, as Bodhi even admits above, that "What he teaches, he says, is just suffering and the ending of suffering, dukkha and its cessation." This, the Buddha's concern with dukkha and its extinguishment, is the concern of "Noble Right View".