Joseph Maynor

Great reading your posts, as usual.

Yeah, I just don’t like it. It really doesn’t resonate with me to direct any kind of judgment against the people who come to Personal Development looking for light — as flawed as they might be. There are better battles for us to fight in life — especially if you’re a Personal Development teacher! This ‘eating our young’ distraction is just dumb in my eyes — and hurtful to others too. Nobody likes to be called stupid or crazy. Imagine if your college teacher called you stupid or crazy! No good, right. Even if you are stupid or crazy — it’s still no good, see. Your job is to help those people, to have compassion directed toward those people, to see an earlier you in those people. There was a day, maybe years ago, when yes you Galyna asked a dumb and crazy question about Personal Development too, was there not? Can you put yourself in other people’s shoes? Don’t turn this into an ego battle or competition between me and Leo — all that does is show us your Ego. And I’ve criticized you on a similar kind of ground once before as I recall.

Leo’s a good guy. It’s just he and I have a little bit of a different Perspective on this narrow issue. And you definitely don’t wanna force yourself to be compassionate, that puts the cart before the horse — and will take you further downstream of Enlightenment. Compassion results from Enlightenment — and it's unforced. It’s not an ideological compassion. It’s a letting things BE kind of compassion. It’s an acceptance of the moment kind of compassion. It’s a BE-into the moment kind of compassion. You think your limited Perspective and experience on this matter allows for such a strong conclusion? How do you know that about the people who do Enlightenment Work?

I don’t like this need to demonize others. Really, that’s just the Self trying to elevate itself over other people. You tell me how you substantiate your ‘correlation’. And you’re always on the Forum yourself — so don’t you get captured in your own over-hasty conclusion too? I admit that I’m getting a little triggered by this because the awesome people on here are doing the right thing, and yet they get called crazy or redundant or what not. You wanna be more supportive as a personal development guide — and you’re a good guide too. You wanna be happy about and supportive of the people who come on here. These are the fabulous few who dare to work on themselves, just like you and me many years ago. And some of these people on here have been doing this longer than we have.

You’re thinking of people as a monolith. What you fail to see is that each of those people are individuals walking their own unique personal development path. That’s like walking into a college math class and complaining that people are discussing the same ole shit year after year. Of course they are! But see, it’s different people going though the same process to learn year after year. Same goes for Personal Development.

If you think 98% of forum posts are nonsense, you're in the wrong business Leo. I think that's ass-backwards. It makes me question your judgment. From my perspective and experience, 98% of the Forum posts are legit and 2% are pointless. You're still way too judgmental Leo. You're not accepting yet. You still wanna define yourself as above things too much. That's the Self looking to cling to significance. You shouldn't have that if you're as Enlightened as you should be by this point.

Give your definition of a mental case. Then we can have a discussion. Otherwise, this is just a distraction. You're distracted. It's your problem, and you're projecting it externally.

AN INSIGHT I HAD ABOUT STAGE ORANGE If you get married and have kids, your Life Purpose is pretty much stuck in your marriage and family. And I think a lot of people find a home in that Marriage & Family Framework -- and they have a huge need for money too, right. So, that's the kind of person who can really flower-out in Stage Orange. They kinda have their own little system that they're feeding, and what they need most is lots of money. Their happiness comes from their family, not from their work. Their work is what they need to do to make as much money as possible for their family. That's the kind of person that's tee'd up to flourish in Stage Orange. And I totally get it, there's nothing wrong with that. If you know you have this amazing system of your Marriage & Family that's depending on you to bring home lots of money, you're gonna be less picky and whiny about what you do for a living. Maybe you'll be a salesman or something, right. If you knew you were doing that to feed this amazing system you had at home, maybe you would be so strong that you would relish that sacrifice, actually. You'd be valuing making lots of money much more so than many other people would. The value of a job for Stage Orange is how much money you can make, and that's not unreasonable for these people, considering their circumstances. So, we gotta make careful we're not looking at everything from our own Perspective and putting our own Perspective on a pedestal. There are many different roads one can take in life. Stage Orange is not in any way less of a valid path in life than Stage Turquoise is.

You gotta find your Life Purpose. Do Leo’s Life Purpose Course, it’s a good one. And even after you find your Life Purpose, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. You’re gonna spend the rest of your life implementing your Life Purpose.

Don’t make the mistake of clinging to relativity as a true paradigm. Yellow might think of relativity as a useful framework, but not as a true paradigm. It’s Green that thinks of relativity as a true paradigm, not Yellow. You gotta be careful with trying to replace one paradigm with another. Yellow is not doing that.

Very nice. Here’s the best attitude I’ve found in dealing with personal development teachers — take what’s useful to you, leave what’s not. I think of Jordan Peterson the same way. Take what’s useful to me, leave what’s not.

These debates of I'm smarter than you are na na' na na' na! Such a distraction from one's actual problem situations in life. What does comparison with another person have to do with sustainably solving your own problem situations in life? I'm Turquoise! Great, go handle your own life and then come and tell me how Turquoise you are. Turquoise is not wasting time measuring their shaft and trying to compare it to others. None of that is relevant -- it's all a distraction.

That's a great question for contemplation!

I call B.S. on this. That's easy to say. Prove it.

ON ‘NOT CARING’: IT'S NOT A DOING, A CLINGING, OR A KNOWING -- IT'S A SURRENDERING TO BE-ING IN THE MOMENT WITHOUT PRE-JUDGMENTS OR PRE-EXPECTATIONS Just BE and accept the moment, whatever it is. You don't wanna ideologically not care, that's a trap. In other words, don’t try to not care. And also don’t try to not not care, that’s also a trap. In other words, don’t be ideologically non-ideological either.

I do, I'll check it out. I have picky taste though.

THE ROLE AND FUNCTION OF NON-DUALITY IN ENLIGHTENMENT THEORY Non-duality is a pointer to Enlightenment, not a set of beliefs or a paradigm to be clung to. What Non-duality is trying to do is get you to transcend the 'Paradigm of Need to Know BE-ing Or Not Need to Know BE-ing'. Enlightenment is surrendering to BE-ing in the moment without pre-judgments or pre-expectations; and it's also a transcendence of all paradigms, including but not limited to the 'Paradigm of Self Or No Self'.

ARE BABIES ENLIGHTENED? Maybe! But they lose it as soon as they start clinging to the Paradigm of Self. Enlightenment is surrendering to BE-ing in the moment without pre-judgments or pre-expectations; and it's also a transcendence of all paradigms, including but not limited to the 'Paradigm of Self Or No Self'. Babies haven't even been programmed with paradigms, so they've transcended all paradigms because they haven't learned them yet. At a certain point though, the babies will start clinging to the Paradigm of Self and start getting triggered by things in their experience that are not aligned with what their wants. That's definitely game over for Enlightenment. The Paradigm of Self, which creates a Self, causes the baby to identify with the Ego in their experience, and they start to take things personally and get offended by certain things in experience, etc.

Personal Development Independence Contribution Peace of Mind Knowledge Self-Expression Kindness Equality Health Travel Health has been moving up for me since I did Leo's Life Purpose Course though. I may need to do another Values Assessment to move Health up much higher on my list.

Are we the junkies? Maybe the junkie is the person making a 4 hour YouTube video. Eh? Projection is a b*tch. Hehe I watched the first 30 minutes of the video last night. It seems to be a good video. I'll have to watch it in chunks. Good job Leo. A little long for one sitting though. I think 2 hours is max for one sitting for me.

The point of life is to be a conduit for the Ego of the Universe -- to let the Universe act and speak through you.

We're distracted as sh*t -- like 80-90% distracted from addressing our genuine concerns in life. I've recently become keenly aware of this and now I can't unsee it.

Only do that if that's your authentic Life Calling. You're not gonna run away from responsibilities. There's no primrose path in life.

Nothing's free.

WORLD-CLASS ARTISTRY IN YOUR CHOSEN ARTISTIC MEDIUM IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS HAVING GREAT CONTENT Don't take this personally, use it to better your craft. Every writer has to tighten their product. I know my earlier writing was wordy as sh*t, especially my writing from like 2 years ago. When I go back and read that it's like Oy! -- see. You gotta always be looking for ways to become a better writer even if you're doing videos. Think of your video as a transcript. Imagine reading a wordy transcript! That will put you in the right frame of mind to improve your videos. Nobody is doing the best they can do right now. Every artist is growing, improving, developing, and creating their artform over time. There are little details in my writing now that would've never emerged as issues for me two years ago. Issues like comma placement in certain contexts. And I've found that to become a better writer I gotta go back and study English Grammar, which I'm doing. This is because to become a master at applying Punctuation Theory you gotta understand English Grammar at a deeper level than most people realize. Hone that craft! You're an artist, you gotta embrace developing. And the better artist you become the better product results. And killer product is key for Life Purpose. Didn't Leo call this Purple Cows? You want each and every writing or video you put out to be a Purple Cow. Now, you're gonna have to work up to that, but that's a good mindset to think about it. Always be asking yourself from an artist's standpoint, how can I improve this? I'm still unhappy with my writing because I've read so much great writing in my life -- I realize that my writing is still very amateurish in light of that standard. I think Leo also said you don't wanna be an amateur you wanna be World-Class in life. Well, if you wanna be World-Class in life, you gotta be making the best videos that anyone is making -- or at least striving to do that. So, don't just focus on great content -- focus also on the artistry of making videos, writing essays, etc. There's a deep artistry that you wanna be cultivating and mastering with your work. Great content is needed and is extremely important, but that don't do squat for your artistry as a video maker or essay writer or what have you. Spend just as much time investing on becoming a better video-making craftsman or craftswoman as you do finding great content to discuss in the videos. Great content alone does not make for a great video. Great content alone does not make for great writing. I would experiment with changing up everything with your videos or writing or what have you. Blow it all up and let the pieces come back together again. Lose all your cliches that you're clinging to with the videos and create replacement ones. That means the background, the intro music, the clothes, the appearance, the speaking style, the mannerisms, you name it. It's nice to have a style, but you want your style to evolve too. Don't be the guy or gal blowing a few notes on the trumpet in the park thinking he or she's a jazz musician. That dude or dudette would learn his or her limitations really fast if they were to show up to a real jazz jam session. They would get humbled fast. A jazz musician spends four hours a day practicing, and he or she has a system for practicing that they had to develop themselves. Are you working 4 hours per day perfecting your artistry as a video maker or writer? If you wanna be the best, you gotta actually be the best. And there's a lot of people working hard out there -- they're gonna outwork you and leave you in the dust. And I walk my talk -- I try to write for at least 4 to 5 hours per day, and my artistry as a writer has improved immensely as a result. What you work on is what you improve. I learned a lot about artistry from learning how to play jazz and what goes into actually being able to play jazz well. Only the fabulous few make it. Even dedication alone is not enough in itself to become a jazz musician. It's working on the right things with your time -- you can spend 10 hours per day working on something and still suck if you're not working in a smart way. Intuition will only take you so far too. You need structure to come out of you that swirls around and encapsulates the intuition. That's what artistry is. Embrace the artistry of making videos or whatever your artistic medium is. Content is great, but you gotta really love your medium to be great at in that medium. I love writing; I love the way it looks, I love the way it feels to write, and I love the final product. I love everything about writing, and I wanna make it as good as it can get it -- for me, not for anybody else. Your videos, writing, or whatever your artistic medium is, should be the same for you. Or you're potentially in the wrong artistic medium, and you might wanna look at that. You're never gonna become World-Class at something that you're half-hearted about. Everybody else in your medium who's whole-hearted about it -- they're eventually gonna run-circles around you.