Joseph Maynor

Hey friends. I've been thinking about this lately. Recently I've had some breakthroughs in consciousness, and I realize that I had dipped back into the Ego for a while after being high-consciousness before. I want to find a way to sustainably maintain high-consciousness once its high to avoid the yo-yo effect. This question is also something you should review -- it's on point too:

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Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to just leave it all behind and become a Sadhu or something. Watch this wonderful documentary:

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This is right up my alley. Thanks!

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This is a pretty obnoxious thing to say. Are you including yourself in this pretentious statement?

Leave everything as it is but get rid of the up-votes. If you need to look at an up-vote to know whether a post is good -- you need to put your thinking-cap on better. ON THE OTHER HAND -- it does let you find out what other people like about your posts. You find out who digs your posts. That's useful information. I've learned which people are like-minded to me. On second thought -- just leave everything as it is Leo. Maybe do a post on the etiquette of the up vote and how it should be used. Sometimes I use it inappropriately myself.

In order for you to be and feel right, someone else needs to be wrong. And feeling wrong is intolerable to you. It's the worst feeling. It makes you feel small, stupid, ugly, insecure, weak, inferior, like a pathetic loser.

Sounds great.

Here's the problem. Can you tolerate feeling wrong or like you don't know? Are you really gonna be able to accept that? Because otherwise you'll just always assume you are right, and you'll continue to use your rules to rationalize this.

Thank you for this Dodo. Recognizing the plethora of perspectives is a key thing to keep us humble and focused on being the Watcher instead of trying to make our limited perspective the litmus-test of reality. There is no right perspective. A perspective is a story. Reality just is. Furthermore, a perspective is highly influenced by culture, whereas reality is not. Reality is a-cultural.

I realize now that I got caught up in this. This is why one should be meditating every day. I had gotten away from that. Meditation keeps you centered on just being aware. It is only through awareness that you can get real work done. All this thinking really just has us chasing a hit of feeling like we know. But that never lasts.

Chasing is neurotic. This is why a meditation practice is advised. People need to become more accepting of reality instead of neurotically always trying to move towards something. Just accept what is. This is easy to say and hard to do. The Mind is always neurotically trying to "understand" things. Being doesn't need to be understood, it just needs to be experienced.

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I gotta call you on your baloney! I'd do you a disservice otherwise.

I used to have a policy against apologizing because I rationalized that what I did was what I though was right to do in the moment, so apologizing was a silly thing. Oh how wrong I was! Most of us should be apologizing constantly. It's that lack of humbleness that is so indicative of the Ego. Put yourself in other people’s shoes to actually have compassion for those people.

When I was at UCLA studying philosophy, I remember a professor telling us an anecdote about David Hume. And it's a good anecdote whether it's true or not. David Hume was one of the Empiricists, who were very scientifically-minded and observationally-minded philosophers. I want you all to learn about David Hume at some point. But he was nearing his death, and someone asked him what he was working on at this time -- and he said that he was looking forward to observing himself dying. This is such a scientific attitude you gotta love it! The explorer to the very end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume

That is a belief too. The idea that you have no choice is a belief. What are you? What is an idea? What is the idea that you have no choice? What is a belief? I want you to give me answers to all these questions in your own words. Don't worry about what you think you're supposed to say or what others will think about it. Just record the answers that come out of you effortlessly and naturally. Then we'll see what we have.

I've noticed that with my writing sometimes I write a lot and sometimes I don't write much at all. I go through weird, unpredictable phases with writing. And I don't really like to fuck with that. Thank God I do this stuff as a hobby because I can see that if I had to force myself to write when I wasn't feeling it, that would cause me a lot of resistance and suffering. This is an issue for career, because you gotta goose your muse sometimes when it is not authentic to do so in order to produce on demand or pursuant to some kind of schedule. I wanna keep my muse authentic and pure. Right now I'm not doing a lot of essay writing because I'm not feeling it. I'm noting topics that I want to write about, but I do not feel like writing right now. I would hate to have to force that muse when I am not ready yet. At some point the muse will hit me and I'll do a bunch of writing. I like to wait for that to happen naturally. That's called following your authentic-self. Trying to control that with the Mind is what causes a lot of suffering and limiting-beliefs to form.

I feel the same way. I apologize for my unaware behaviors of the past. The Ego is a sneaky bastard. I thought this was egoless apologizing haha. That would never happen.

Are you in an increase, decrease, or are you holding steady? I'm having the keen-insight that awareness is like a continuous function in mathematics. It goes up and down, and this is often not something you are fully aware of. But when the Mind gives way to stratospheric awareness, you will appreciate that ascent and notice it. Those parts of the curve are awesome. I feel myself ascending with a fast rate of change right now. We'll see where that goes. But now I can see that I was on a plateau for a long time. About 2-3 months. Enlightenment is about transcending not repressing the Ego. That's the path! Yo! But check this out. I've been more aware than I am right now in the past. That makes me humble because I now realize we go through these kind of fade-in/ fade-out shifts with awareness that we are often unconscious of. Yet the Mind makes us believe that we are always growing in a linear manner. I hope you see the point I am trying to make here. What is your actual chart of awareness? This might shock the shit out of you to realize that this kind of thing is happening and you are not in control over it. THING FOR ME TO TEACH – We need a strategy to maintain high-awareness at all times. This would have to be something in writing that would ring the right bells for reminder. Video on point to watch: And this one: And finally this one: