Joseph Maynor

The Mind is never where you're gonna find Enlightenment.

One man's meat is another man's poison.

Make sure you are making the right decision for the rights reasons.

“Keep titles in the background, keep performance in the foreground. Don’t have people making their career trying to be a vice president, have them make their career trying to win every single competition. They’ll probably wind up being president or king or whatever they wanna be.” – Ross Perot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot

Here's a great paradox for you to consider: The paradox between Self-actualization and Enlightenment.

Thought is like trying to fit 3-dimensional phenomena into a 2-dimensional model.

Don't cling to this belief too tightly. Be gentle with beliefs. You're gonna set yourself 100 miles away from Enlightenment.

You still don't know what the dog is thinking or experiencing. What you know is what you are projecting that the dog is thinking. That's a big assumption.

It's interesting to me that we think we know what the dog is thinking.

The dog has a much more complex life than we imagine it has too. Think about how much we are projecting onto the dog. How does the dog project onto us? Our life is no different than the dog's life if you zoom out far enough.

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I would be skeptical of anyone who considers themselves to be an "enlightened yogi". That's a pretty strong identification. Better to think of yourself as a student than a master in this work.

How about this paradox -- The Now is both always changing and always staying the same? Watch this video:

How about this paradox -- you are both changing and staying the same. You could easily cling to the paradigm that the Now never changes and that all change is an illusion.

Our lives are similar to the dog's life.

Enlightenment is a pretty specific breaking away from belief as a source of truth, so unless he has done that, I would say no.

Being held back is spending a bunch of time swimming against the current trying to control reality -- instead of just accepting and loving reality.

In the sense of a person holding themselves back. What is going on here. Can you see under the hood of this problem? Video to watch if you're interested in Psychology:

My domain of mastery: Helping myself and others increase self-acceptance by optimizing use of the Mind. I've always struggled with self-acceptance issues. Feeling insecure, defensive, over-compensatory, nerdy, undesirable, neurotic, not attractive. Basically feeling not normal.

Your domain of mastery will be much more specific than that.

There's a certain education that one needs for Enlightenment.

This is good to read too: http://maryshutan.com/8-common-ego-traps/ http://maryshutan.com/8-common-ego-traps-part-two/

To me the relevant question is what thoughts and/or sensations is the word "God" being applied to.

You might be ready to watch this video.