Bret W. Davis

“The Wheel of Life is painted on the outside walls of many Tibetan and Bhutanese monasteries in order to educate people in the basics of Buddhism. Yet it is not often found in Japan. In fact, Japanese Buddhists don't think or talk much at all about rebirth in the Six Realms. When they do talk about the afterlife, they tend to speak of becoming a Buddha, attaining Nirvana, or going to the Pure Land—expressions that they often use rather vaguely to mean roughly the same thing.”
― Bret W Davis, Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism

“For Buddhists, the rebirth that is thought to happen after death is not entirely unlike the constant rebirth we undergo during this life. This "moment-to-moment rebirth" is going on all the time. My personality is constantly developing along with my thoughts and emotions, just as the cells of my body are constantly dying off and being replaced—not to mention the smaller molecules that make up cells, and the even smaller processes of particle physics that make up molecules. On a larger scale, my childhood self had to disappear in order for my adult self to come into existence.”
― Bret W Davis, Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism