Joseph Maynor

My point of view is the totality of points of view.

He was so unique.

Come back to the Forum. Where have you been? I miss your perspective. This is a good little writing on Enlightenment.

Only for people who assume Personal Development is synonymous with Enlightenment. Those people are the worst haha! Just kidding.

Be an explorer.

To the Guru every perspective is a teacher.

I hope Leo is doing well.

Sure. People who act like Gurus but who depend on you staying lower consciousness than them so they can retain their Egoic power over the group. Think of a cult leader. These people don’t really want you to grow to their Growth Level because it’s a threat to their advantage over you. A true Guru wants you to reach whatever Growth Level you decide to evolve into, even if it’s higher than theirs. The anti-guru wants you to grow — but only so much as you don’t upset their system. The anti-guru is all about themselves — the true Guru is about the entire Network of perspectives.

This was a great video when it came out for me. I was so happy on 12/4/16! At that time I was nowhere near where I am now on the Path. But it was a distinct stepping-stone for me around this time period. I think Leo’s shift precipitated a shift in me. Of course he’s way ahead of me at this juncture, so the shift was more analogical on my end — but it was a true growth point.

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Haha. Egoless got wise!

Nah. He’s gonna take it to the next level. Y’all need to make sure you grow yourselves too so you keep up. Leo loves this stuff, I can tell. I personally enjoy his newer videos.

I agree. The tongue can’t taste itself. I can’t take credit for this, I think it comes from Mooji. However — can the tongue BE itself? That’s what’s interesting! From the tongue’s perspective — what’s the difference between tasting and BE-ing? Or you can even get fancier — what’s the difference between the tongue’s tasting, BE-ing, and its becomming?

This resonates with me.

Correct. Rest as Awareness is a metaphor. It’s a pointer. It’s the best pointer we have. Adya is spot on.

This is my favorite video on Enlightenment:

Dude, you got smart! Seriously.

I agree with you 100%.

I agree with that. My point is that form is just window-dressing in this work. Can you rest as Awareness? Whether you think in terms of form will not help you there! I can rest as Awareness all the time! In a sense, I’m always meditating. So, form is irrelevant to me. Form is a distraction frankly. There is no mechanical way to Enlightenment. Enlightenment is simply BE-ing reality.

I meditate lying in bed. 30 mins each morning of do nothing meditation. It’s not about all the formal BS.

Reality hides in plain sight. The more conceptual you are, the more you have to deprogram from conceptual-truth to find it — and then ultimately be it. There’s a personal transformation that accompanies this. It’s like looking all over for a pair of glasses that have been placed backwards on your head. Reality hides in plain sight. It’s tricky. Using psychedelics especially LSD helped me see the obvious, as I’m a pretty conceptual person too. Sometimes you’re so smart, your brain leaks out of your head — and this definitely applies to Enlightenment! Leo’s gonna conduct his experiment and tell us his results. I get it. Go for it! Explore! That’s what I’m all about. I say go for it Leo! — full tilt! See what happens. Until you do it, it’s just speculation. After you do it, you’ll know something. And that will be a notch in your belt — an item to be placed in your shore of reference. Science is all about exploration and seeing and testing stuff for yourself. Science doesn’t just sit back and rely on complascent and lazy speculation — Science actually goes out here and sees for itself! I love that approach and attitude to everything, including Enlightenment. Be an explorer! Then come back and give us a report on your findings. How could that be a bad thing? Think about it. It’s a great thing.

Correct. Reality is right here right now.

Nice insight! Everybody has to find their own way to peace though. All you know is you don’t yet have it. And you’re gonna chase until you find it. When you do find it, you’ll stop chasing. Sometimes you have to explore a path just to see it doesn’t work the way you thought. That leads to growth too. Enlightenment is not linear and each person is gonna need to burn through a different path to obtain it.

Nice insight! I was thinking Leo should take 60 days without making any videos. You need solo time to grow without the tugs of obligation. Growth requires lots of relaxed solo time.

Good question. Your questions have been good lately. I can tell you’re doing the work more and growing. The only limit to thought is what you accept. The only dogmas are what you cling to. Explore whatever you want to. Build up your own shore of reference. Privilege your own intuition over what is said by others. People feel safe by clinging to ideology. It makes them feel like they can move past an issue. But is that really true? Can clinging to some theory of non-duality be what Enlightenment is all about? That would be a very sad Enlightenment indeed. Enlightenment is much more expansive than that. Enlightenment is not an ideology, and it’s a trap to turn it into one. All ideologies can do is point to Enlightenment — but none can ever catch it. Enlightenment is a personal transformation. It’s a way to untangle ideas from reality and see the map as being distinct form the territory. It’s getting acquainted with reality minus thoughts about reality. We have so many thoughts about reality that we lose sight of what pre-conceptual reality actually is. We’re so concerned with thoughts about reality — that we take them to be reality! You can get to the point where you see and feel this distinction so clearly that you lose fear of thoughts. People who fear thoughts are still insecure about making the map and territory distinction. When you can BE pre-conceptual reality — you no longer fear thoughts. Thoughts become quite fascinating cultural constructs actually. I like thoughts! I just don’t mistake the thought stories to be reality. Thoughts are human technology. Reality is not human technology. Human technology exists within reality. We’re never gonna be able to encapsulate reality existentially using thoughts. That’s the map versus territory idea deeply grokked — not just intellectually but existentially. LSD is great help with teaching this. But you don’t need psychedelics to grok this. Psychedelics just give you another perspective to draw on that might help you do so. You can actually see this if you do “Do Nothing Meditation.”