Joseph Maynor

Where you want to get to is where you are systematically detaching from all your attachments. Don’t suppress your thoughts, that is no good. That is the Ego trying to control. Acknowledge reality fully, and then move your awareness away (if you so desire). But don’t suppress or repress anything. I know in your newest video Leo you talk about suppressing thoughts — that’s a trap. Allow the thoughts to be there, just don’t identify with them. That’s the proper way to handle thoughts. When you use the Ego, you reinforce the Ego. When you allow the Ego but don’t attach to it, that’s when it releases. Some work that really helped me was finding my top 3 Ego attachments. Once you find your attachments, you can work on detaching from them. Re-cap: Don’t suppress thoughts. Let them flow by, just don’t identify with them. If you must, move your awareness away from them once you’ve acknowledged them, but never suppress them. That just feeds the Ego, which creates more thoughts. You want to let reality do it’s thing fully, just don’t identify with it. Cultivate an absolute lack of resistance to what arises. Watch — and do the exercises in the video. This is practical work everyone needs to do.

There are no levels of consciousness.

Strong desire to know conceptually for whatever reason. We all have this too. But many of us see the trap in it as well. Don’t identify with thoughts and beliefs as facts, that’s the error. It’s clinging to conceptual knowing that is the source of this kind of trap. Now, his motive and reasons for wanting to take this approach is unclear to me.

Specifically, enumerating Metaphysical truths/speculations in Enlightenment work. Video on point to watch:

Leo's new video brought me back. Outrageous. How the hell could I sleep with that video. Impossible. Ok, I'm going back on my sabbatical now. See ya.

Ok. If that makes you feel significant, go for that.

Maybe both of us or neither of us are right. That's always a possibility with beliefs too, is it not? Paradoxically it is true that Enlightenment has levels and also has no levels. And that paradox can be detached from as well. Dis-identify with thoughts, the voice, and emotions.

What was he taking? Am I missing the obvious? This is like one of those news stories missing the key piece of information. Until we know those details, we are just spinning our wheels folks. Yeah, I need more information to comment on Leo's video one way or another.

One of the most uncertain things to do is judge a person's motive. I don't think Leo would be wasting his time lying intentionally to us or himself. If that's what's happening, I'm sure he would have better things to do with his time. So, the motive issue seems to me kind of dirty pool. You don't know. If you don't have something nice to say about someone -- make sure to say it very well haha. Just kidding.

There are no stages of Enlightenment. Truth has no stages.

I've been practicing this technique and I've had a lot of success with it. I like how you start with a tension in the body and then release that rather than looking at the mind to solve everything. This kind of technique keeps us from getting too top heavy in this work. Very good technique.

All watching this can do for you is goose you to step up your own work on the path. Nobody can do your pushups for you.

Keep walking the path Leo. We're gonna be walking the path until we die. Paradoxically Enlightenment must be both sought and not sought. Thinking you've found the destination is just as bad as seeking. Both of those "views" miss reality by miles. And it is reality that we're interested in, not concepts of reality. Being the explorer just is doing this work. Push on friend. I'll do the same as well. There is much more to do and much more to experience. We're only just getting started -- just scratching the surface of this work. // My synopsis of Enlightenment Enlightenment -- Be an explorer in the fullest sense of the word. This is what we are here to do. This is a life where you are supposed to be expanding. Do not waste your potential, do not waste this life. Discover your authentic-self fully through a life-long, multi-faceted process of reality exploring reality fully. The practical result of Enlightenment is liberation from all culture. PILLARS OF ENLIGHTENMENT (REALITY EXPLORING REALITY FULLY): 1. Daily Meditation Habit (Microscope on the Mind) 2. Non-Dual Theory (Scaffolding to orient the Mind to favor awareness over the Ego) 3. Psychedelics (Exploring inner-being) 4. Self-Inquiry (Realizing no-Self fully) 5. External World-Inquiry (Realizing no-World fully) 6. Cosmopolitanism/ World Travel (Exploring outer-being, world cultures through travel, learning other languages) 7. Education (Exploring world ideas, culture, and history leading to reliable knowledge and wisdom) 8. Cultivation of the Authentic-Self (Maslow's Pyramid, Life Purpose (including Career), Self-Actualization, Self-Transcendence) 9. Spirituality (Reconnecting to being the Watcher and purifying away illusions) 10. Cultivation of the Body (Nurture and fortify the Body, it's your constant companion) 11. Exploration of Art (Exploring non-linguistic ideas and patterns of ideas, exploring linguistic arts like poetry and fiction) 12. Life Practice (Perfecting your strengths in a way that makes you feel good/proud, eradicating weaknesses if authentically desired) 13. Being Good (Being a source of love and inspiration to others rather than not doing this, assisting others) 14. Authentic Relationships (Where you realize and perfect the idea that we are all One)

Thanks. All my hard work on the path is paying off.

The question is what are your top 10 high-consciousness values. And you do have them subconsciously — you’re just probably not consciously aware of them yet. Leo’s Life Purpose Course can help you figure that out.

Enlightenment is both easy and complex at the same time. It’s easy in the sense that once you know what you’re looking for and why, you just become the keen Watcher in the present moment. It’s hard in the sense that you don’t get to that place overnight and you have to learn about a lot of Egoic traps — not only from a theoretical perspective, but also by becoming mindful of how those play out in your own life. It’s not that Enlightened people have no Ego — it’s just that they understand it so well and notice it so well in their own lives that they can frequently detach from it. But that takes a long time of theory and observation to master! But the idea of becoming the Watcher is very simple, right? It’s just mindfulness of reality in the present moment. You’re not gonna be the keen Watcher at first, you’ll be the baby Watcher. This explains why the paradox that one must both seek and not seek Enlightenment is true. And it also explains why meditation and mindfulness are so important in this work. But you also need to accumulate YOUR OWN knowledge about how the Ego works that you’re building up your whole life-long. That knowledge and mindfulness synergize and have a nice baby which then causes the industrious person who walks this path more and more Enlightenment over time. That’s a description of how Enlightenment works from a big-picture, humanist standpoint.

Sounds a little oddly stated to my ears. A little too contrived.

Any second-hand belief is not it. It’s a starting point though. It’s a step on the path. But there are 100 more steps.

Oh yeah, dreams can be a window into the subconscious mind. I’ve learned a lot about my fears and limiting beliefs by seeing patterns in my dreams basically recur over and over again.

Enlightenment theory is discovery of the authentic-self. Life Purpose theory is construction of ideal career.

Self help theory is pragmatic strategies to improve your life.

Very wise words indeed. Video on point:

I like this paradox -- one must both seek and not seek Enlightenment. Video I like: And this one: And this one:

Paradoxically you are constantly changing and also always staying the same.