I wouldn't characterize it as "fallen" - sounds too, too Christian.
Rather I would say that we all learn from our agonies and ecstasies prior to waking up. After that it is pretty much irrelevant as far as we are concerned. Not sure why you consistently look in the rear view mirror, and obsess over the map you have. The object is to get where we are going, not endlessly analyze how we might get there. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > > On Jan 26, 2011, at 10:30 PM, raviyogi2009 wrote: > > > "After all, we've all fallen at least once, no?" - not sure if you > > were referring to my behavior here on the list? > > Unless we're born as avatars, we're all born "fallen" and therefore > have some inkling of what that means. Spiritual practitioners, like > kids learning to ride bicycles, also learn to know what falling looks > like. >
