Sounds positively like the Garden of Eden - what a weird metaphor for a Buddhist... If someone "falls from enlightenment" as you so dramatically put it Vaj, it wasn't a complete integration, just a taste. Rather than getting hung up on the fall, get your ass in gear and do it. End of story. :-)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > > On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:24 PM, yifuxero wrote: > > > Dennis Waite interview, Nonduality Magazine: > > > > "It is impossible to know whether or not another person is Enlightened. The > > best that we can do to assess this is to compare what the person says with > > what has been said in the scriptures (or perhaps, for most of us, with how > > the scriptures have been interpreted by those whom we believe to have been > > Enlightened). But this has to be tempered with the fact that it is possible > > for people to learn pat answers without really understanding them". > > > The easiest thing to know is not if another has attained enlightenment, but > if they have fallen from enlightenment. >
