The Enlightened Lifestyle framework explores rebirth by meeting the Buddha where he historically stands—acknowledging that early texts affirm literal rebirth—while applying twenty-first-century critical inquiry. Grounded in methodological naturalism, this approach reframes postmortem continuation as empirically undetermined rather than dogmatically declared. By setting aside a literal transmigrating soul, it extends dependent origination into intergenerational causal continuity. Rebirth is understood naturalistically: our choices, habits, cultural patterns, and ecological impacts ripple forward to condition future lives. This reframing shifts the core ethical question from "What happens to me after death?" to "What causal world am I actively generating?"
