[Buddha-l] rebirth

[Mike Austin]

In message <1138404889.5619.41.camel at localhost.localdomain>, Richard P. 
Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> writes

>The Indian Buddhist Kamalasila makes a similar point. When one goes to
>prison, one is reborn in hell. When one has greed for what is
>unavailable, one is a ghost. When one acts without regard for others,
>one is ipso facto entering rebirth as an animal. When one finally gets
>everything one wants and then worries about it being stolen (or taxed
>away by Democrats) or worries about dying before one has enough time to
>enjoy all one's toys, then one has temporarily entered the deva realm.

I have not read Kamalashila. Is he saying that these mental states, with 
human form, are all that constitute hell, preta and animal realms? These 
may well be 'hellish', but that makes no statement on the existence of a 
physical rebirth that could accompany such a mental state.

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin