1. Rebirth after death depends on karma. What karma does it base
on for deciding which realm the dead will rebirth into? Is that
karma created while living on earth or karma created after they
die?
Here is a short
extract on the subject of kamma.
// Sutta AN 6.63 states:-
[5] "'Kamma should be known. The cause by which
kamma comes into play should be known. The diversity in kamma
should be known. The result of kamma should be known. The cessation
of kamma should be known. The path of practice for the cessation of
kamma should be known.' Thus it has been said. In reference to what
was it said?
"Intention, I tell you, is kamma. Intending, one
does kamma by way of body, speech, &
intellect.
"And what
is the cause by which kamma comes into play? Contact is the cause
by which kamma comes into play.
"And what
is the diversity in kamma? There is kamma to be experienced in
hell, kamma to be experienced in the realm of common animals, kamma
to be experienced in the realm of the hungry shades, kamma to be
experienced in the human world, kamma to be experienced in the
world of the devas. This is called the diversity in
kamma.
"And what
is the result of kamma? The result of kamma is of three sorts, I
tell you: that which arises right here & now, that which arises
later [in this lifetime], and that which arises following that.
This is called the result of kamma.
"And what
is the cessation of kamma? From the cessation of contact is the
cessation of kamma; and just this noble eightfold path — right
view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood,
right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration — is the path
of practice leading to the cessation of
kamma.
"Now when
a disciple of the noble ones discerns kamma in this way, the cause
by which kamma comes into play in this way, the diversity of kamma
in this way, the result of kamma in this way, the cessation of
kamma in this way, & the path of practice leading to the
cessation of kamma in this way, then he discerns this penetrative
holy life as the cessation of kamma. //
Kamma is not actually the
deed, good or bad. It is the mental state that arises in the mind
of a person who does the good or bad, or wholesome or unwholesome
deed. This potential mental state is stored as ‘seeds’ (Mahayana
interpretation) and eventually gave rise to results that are good
or bad or painful when the right conditions are
present.
2. Is the dead allowed freedom to disturb the living to create
their bad karma? If answer is yes, is there any limit or to what
extent is the dead allow the freedom to do so?
I think
this question is more appropriate to those who are believers of
Chinese Folks Religion than to Buddhism.
3. Can the dead decide which realm he wants to rebirth
into and works towards that?
In theory one
can decide which realm you want to be reborn into when you are
alive, but certainly not when you are already dead, otherwise the
Law of Kamma would be obsolete.
4. Is there such a thing as the dead are allowed to refuse to
rebirth into that particular realm when they are suppose to ?
If you go by
the Law of Kamma, don’t believe the decease would have any choose
or freewill to do so.
5. is there such a thing as the dead not ready to accept going
to pureland when amitofo arrives to receive him?
If one is a
practitioner of the Pureland school, that would be the very
objective of one’s destination after dead. Why would one refuse
acceptance anyway?
6. Is there other pureland other than the Amituofo Pure
Land?
Yes
