Joseph Maynor

We are discussing impersonal things here. Nobody’s said anything personal. That’s YOUR projection, not anything to do with this discussion.

What is intuition?

The fact that it’s so old just tells me it is probably dogma. We don’t need any more dogma. If I want dogma I can read Philosophy. What we’re focused on is personal development I thought. Philosophy can be a distraction to personal development.

Saying reality is a dream is clinging to belief. No one is forcing you to make claims like that about reality. Why not just suspend such beliefs regarding reality.

Why not suspend belief. That’s an option too.

It came off as dogmatic to me. But a lot of people seemed to love it if you look at the Youtube comments. They think it’s brilliant.

Something was off about it in content and in tone for me. But that’s just me. That’s why I think it could be tongue in cheek. As in — here’s another story for you to use as a chew-toy while you continue to avoid the only truth there is — that which is contained in the present moment.

What is Science? Im not trying to be cute here. What is not Science?

I still can’t figure out his motive in that video. Something is missing. It’s like a contemporary art piece that leaves you walking away with something, but you’re not sure what.

What is it to know something?

Examine this question carefully: What does it mean for some thing to exist?

https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/great-minds-of-the-eastern-intellectual-tradition.html Very well done. Buy it on Audible with one of your credits, it's a lot cheaper that way.

Enlightenment is not something that happens quickly. There are no quick fixes in personal development. Changes happen slowly but steadily in this work. If you don’t take ignorance seriously, you will stall in this work. Moksha just is the removal of ignorant assumptions about reality. Nirvana is the cessation of clinging to impermanent things, such as pleasures and pains or thoughts. Moksha is not necessarily happiness or fulfillment, it’s peace. Moksha is complete cessation of attaching to Maya in the moment. That doesn’t mean you repress or suppress beliefs — you just don’t consider them very important! You don’t cling to them (beliefs) much. You are passionate about just resting as awareness, just Being what exists in the Now, the present moment. You are that which is non-changing, or the Soul, and this Soul is Reality. So, attaching to impermanent states is like a walker being distracted and mesmerized by every plant on the side of the road. We err in thinking that beliefs are SO important. They’re like fake currency really. They look valuable on the surface, but they lack true value. Reality doesn’t need anything. It already has what it needs. Your attempts to try and control reality are mistaken and only cause you suffering.

Intelligence can be a trap in this work — especially those who are addicted to conceptual knowledge and thinking. Those people often have no insight about the cause of their neurotic concept-weaving and how that detracts them from acceptance of reality as it is.

Enlightenment is your path then. All of your troubles result from clinging to beliefs about yourself, or your self-image. Once you can loosen belief in that self-image, that’s when problems like yours will begin to auto-correct for you. So, keep up the Enlightenment work to get the change you seek — which is peace from thoughts and emotions such as you describe.

This is kind of a platitude by now, but Enlightenment is directly proportional to how much you can detach from giving significance to belief-paradigms. When you are reality, there is no clinging needed. Why should reality need anything? Why assume that you must provide something that reality lacks — like more belief-paradigms? See the error in all of this searching? It’s illusory. Just surrender to resting as awareness in the moment. Reality will take care of itself for you. You are not in control.

That’s just your defense mechanism to accepting reality as it is. Enlightenment would probably bore you to tears. You use your humor like a drug in the same way that some of us use Philosophy. It’s a way for you to avoid the void. You need to accept that void — and reside in that void. That doesn’t mean you’ll lose your humor, you’ll just become less neurotic about it. It won’t serve as an Ego defense-mechanism for you anymore. Sound good?

Please https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh

Leo. // Listen to the below audiobook from 5'26'20' to 6'19'25' for one of the best things I've heard. Interesting Indian Thinker Adi Shankara teaching students https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara

Adi Shankara with students

I haven't decided if I resonate with Mooji yet. I kinda don't think so. I've watched a smattering of his videos, and something seems kinda off to me about him. No offense, I'm just keeping it real.

Thank you! You see the good side of what I'm trying to do on here.

I like the idea that it's tongue in cheek. Leo is basically showing us how absurd belief is by lampooning reasoning. That's how I read it. Pounds fist on table.

As you allege? Am I just supposed to take your word for it? That's a big claim. A belief to boot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor A lot of people don't even know what Ontology is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology

Adyashanti is my favorite of the gurus I have seen so far. He appears to be the real deal. And Eckhart Tolle too. Both are amazing.