Joseph Maynor

You're enlightened when you realize (1) you're not in control over reality, and (2) you realize all your job is is to be that which never changes.

I want you folks to discuss truth and your story about it here. Ok, so we have reality — which is the present moment, and we call that truth. Now, we also have conceptual truth. This would be like — Reality is uniform in some sense. The story of reality has a structure to it. That’s a belief about reality, not reality per se. And you can determine that empirically through meditation and/or mindfulness. So, how do we treat conceptual truth in a way where we don’t lose sight of reality? That seems to be our biggest issue? That’s where we are still all screwed up it seems.

What was removed from you is the idea that you're in control of reality. It makes me feel great that other people than me get to experience what no self feels like. But when you live with no self, you gotta accept all of reality. The Ego has long claws and a hard time with that one, so just be warned. Ego will still be a part of your experience. Just consider all of it a dream, like Leo's video talks about.

Dude. All you gotta do is let go. Just let go. Reality is doing what is was doing. Your beliefs about reality do not affect reality. Stop trying to control, know, or do. Watch reality continue on unperturbed. Just rest as awareness. Watch reality and be reality. There is no controlling agent. That's a belief taken to be true. Just realize you are all of it and that you are not changing. What is changing is Maya. Can you see it? Not believe it, but be it?

It's just a story. Stories are for ignoramuses.

http://www.dailybuddhism.com/archives/670

If you meet the Buddha, kill him.

Everybody is already Enlightened, so no. False modesty is Ego.

What is this you that is choosing to be the Ego? Is that real or a belief?

All your neuroses will drop with Enlightenment.

There's no control. Control, doing, and knowing are beliefs about reality, not reality as it is.

How about this one: 'Guru' is a word and/or vocalization. What do you make of this? Am I wrong?

No. That’s all clinging to beliefs about reality.

Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.

The idea that you are influencing the dream is Ego

There is no you controlling the Mind. There’s no you, there’s no controlling, and there is no mind.

Hey folks. I’ve been puzzled by one belief that keeps gnawing at me. That’s kinda how I work, issues get stuck in my craw until they dissolve or get resolved in some way. One of our biggest beliefs is that our words or vocalizations match up to reality in some way. Now, here me out. This is the basis of all theory, is it not? It’s the basis for all conceptual-truth. But what is this theoretical truth really? Isn’t it just words and vocalizations? Doesn’t this seem like when you were a baby you started seeking names for everything in reality? Don’t beliefs and theories seem like an extended version of that process? And then we have the custom of inheriting ideas. The veneration of past ideas. This is a huge mistake, no? We see this happening in our history of ideas. There is obviously a utility to gathering thought-stories, words and vocalizations, and we do seem to make practical use of it. But can reality be known through linguistic means? Is our belief that a set of words and vocalizations link up with a similarly ordered reality a good one? That’s a metaphor, is it not? Aren’t we taking a metaphor to be true here?

That’s what I think we get at when we say we feel like a child again.

The Ego is nothing other than beliefs taken too seriously. Watch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hbj4nLOPN8o

I am at peace with life. I’m just sitting down to do my morning 30 minutes of do nothing meditation. Maybe I’ll do a little bit of mindfulness of the breath on the nostrils. Notice the breath and the heart and all the little bursts of energy in the body.

You must have some shit in the subconscious that you still need to clean out. You should be as peaceful and tranquil as a Japanese pond most of the time, just resting as awareness.

The only way you can become enlightened is through the door of illusion. Everybody must enter through that door. But at some point you gotta kick off the training wheels. And that will have no impact on reality. You never had any impact on reality. Reality is happening for you regardless of your beliefs about a false sense of knowing, doing, or controlling.

Live your whole life that way.

There is no you reasoning anything out. That is just part of the movie. The Mind is spinning a tale about reality. Fitting in the missing image where all there is is dots. That’s how storytelling works. That’s what the Ego does. Clinging to thoughts does not do anything! Reality is not controllable by the Ego’s clinging to various beliefs, including that it can know, do, and control. Those are just beliefs.

Total acceptance of not doing, and not knowing, not grasping to control. All of those are Egoic illusions. They are laid up on top of reality as if they make a difference to reality. They don’t.