The problem of action at a temporal distance

Exactly. Not this or that. How words are put together doesn’t always correlate with their meaning(s) is different contexts.

The teachings on ending rebirth and re-existence appear everywhere in the Nikāyas, both explicitly and implicitly. So the rendering of “no further or state of existence” appears quite compatible with this and with the buddha’s teachings in general, is all I’m saying here.

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