The problem of action at a temporal distance

[Jayarava]

@josephzizys

the buddha rejected the idea that “they are either reborn or not reborn” applies to an enlightened person.

And yet there are dozens of stories of arahants exclaiming things like: “Knowledge and vision arose in me: ‘My freedom is unshakable; this is my last rebirth; now there are no more future lives.” (‘akuppā me vimutti, ayamantimā jāti, natthi dāni punabbhavo’ti. MN 26)