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It is important to define what death is. When we are unsure of that, we will also be unsure about reincarnation. In the West, death is when the heart stops beating, but according to Buddhism it comes later than that. Death happens when the mind disconnects from the nonfunctioning body and enters the intermediate state, the bardo.
If we didn’t have a mind that was distinct from the body, that would be the end of us, but the mind is not the body. If the mind were to stop with the physical body, like a flame being extinguished when the candle is spent, there would be no argument, but it is not like that. The mind is nonmaterial energy whereas the body is matter, and although the mind connects with a body for a certain period of time, when we die, when the physical body ceases to function, the mind continues and takes another body. This is what is called reincarnation.
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