---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote:
Judy and Ann, ok, let me try this and tell me if my logic is off and if so,
where it is off:
Robin said he was enlightened.
Robin also said that enlightenment is a delusion.
Therefore Robin was saying that he was actually deluded rather than enlightened.
No, he is saying that the state of enlightenment is the state of delusion.
I also want to add that I recognize that I'm triggered by all this. I mean, why
should Robin get to be special by being enlightened? And then be even more
special by getting rid of his enlightenment?! How special does one person have
to be?!
I am not sure where you are getting the impression that he himself or anyone
else thinks Robin is special because he became deluded/enlightened. I certainly
don't. I feel badly for him because he has suffered through so much of it.
Whether that suffering was self imposed or not I can not judge. But he
apparently felt it imperative to liberate himself from under the
delusion/enlightenment he was under so that is his prerogative and his
business. I neither applaud or condemn him. And like I have said many times
already I don't believe in a "state" of enlightenment so the whole point is
rather moot for me.
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 10:52 AM, "awoelflebater@..."
<awoelflebater@...> wrote:
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <authfriend@...> wrote:
You misunderstood him, Share (even as many times as he explained it). He
called enlightenment per se a delusion--his, Maharishi's, anybody's. He did not
say he was deluded to believe he was enlightened.
OK, just read this now after posting my own description for Share. You managed
to state it far more simply and elegantly than I did. I probably just made it
sound confusing...
<< Judy, Robin himself called his alleged enlightenment a delusion. So I think
it's inaccurate to use the phrase "enlightened days." >>
On Friday, February 7, 2014 8:04 PM, "authfriend@..." <authfriend@...> wrote:
Oh, and of course you were never around Robin during his enlightened days
anyway.
<< What's "NPS," and how were you in a position to think Robin had it,
whatever it is?
<< As for Robin, yes I found him extraordinary in many ways. Whether he had
classic NPS, I couldn't say, but it sure seemed that way to me much of the
time. But then again, it doesn't register with me much if a person is said to
be enlightened or not. >> >>
