A short treatise explaining that the Buddha did not teach the doctrine of rebirth because he was blindly following the cultural norms of his time.
Instead, our resistance to this teaching is pointing to cultural biases of our own that impede progress on the Path.
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You yourselves must strive, the Buddhas only point the way
Buddha, Dhp 276
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