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And in the end, my question still remains. The Buddha *does* say (once) that views that include karma and rebirth are "Right View with Taints", and he followed that with an exposition on what the right view without taints is. It's not something he says again, and again, and again, as he does with so many things, but at least we have him saying it once.

But I have seen nothing in the suttas that is as clear as the above, on the subject of all the talk about samsara and cyclic existence as being in one life. It's a good theory, but what evidence is there for it in the suttas themselves? And if there is no evidence for it in the suttas themselves, then is there at least a good theory out there about why he would not explicitly state it even once, if that's what the Buddha was actually saying?