---We've gone over this before, dead horse. All depends on how you defdefine "Enlightenment".
In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mar 20, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Marek Reavis wrote: > > > Here's a couple of my pennies on the above subject (and thanks to > > everyone who has weighed in on it). As many others have pointed out > > before, "Realization" implies that whatever It Is, It *already* Is > > and at some point It recognizes That. > > > There's also a pervasive sense, on recognition of the nondual, that > it was always this way. > > And of course, if it has a beginning in time, it is not nondual. ;-) > > The Buddha's first words after nirvana: 'we're all already enlightened.' >