Joseph Maynor

It’s funny that there’s a taboo in this work against saying you’ve awakened. Nobody gets to admit that! Ever! Who made this rule? Why is it enforced all the time? Do I get to choose for myself? Let’s not deny the obvious. There are differences is awareness amongst people. That is very obvious. You do have people that are more awake than others.

It doesn’t change your work, but it would change how people would resonate with you as consumers of your work. That’s the key. They would be turned-off by you.

It just makes the author smell like poo. It makes it hard to relate to him. It’s like listening to an artist’s music after finding out something unsavory about them. It’s gonna change how you resonate with the work. It’s hard to treat someone well when you feel like they are a bad person — even their writing, and even if it’s good stuff! You’ll have a resistance there. I agree with Leo that increased awareness can dissolve this block, but for many people it will be there.

Ask yourself this question: What can I do to get excited about doing this activity? Brainstorm some answers.

I appreciate your willingness to do real work here. That takes guts. Good for you. If you don’t label the problem you can’t deal with it effectively. You’re on your way. Keep awareness on this issue and you will start to see improvements on it over time. Be a bit patient too. It takes a few months to start to see the fruits of your awareness.

@Lorcan There is so much wisdom in Leo’s videos it’s insane. I’ve studied all of them. The problem is that nobody wants to watch all the videos and take notes on all of them. People want to be spoon-fed without doing hard work in personal development. They expect this work to be easy and hand-holding. No other subject is treated like this. Only special people are gonna work really hard at this stuff — and naturally those people will be rewarded.

It’s just two perspectives. They don’t have to be reconciled. It’s like 2 views of the same thing. There doesn’t have to be just one right way to think about something. I know this sounds flippant from the Rationalist Paradigm point of view. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Being is awareness. Awareness is being.

Yep, when you’re awake Enlightenment is a no-brainer. It’s just awareness combined with experience.

There’s something to be said for getting away from culture and media. I like what asceticism does in moderation. People take it too far though, like everything else that gets reduced to meanings. The Mind loves to cling to meanings. The problem is — all meanings are false!

Congrats. I love that you're excited about your work. I'm excited to be doing life purpose work finally. There's only kind of dive, and that's a deep-dive.

I'm an army of one baby! Let's dust this one off:

You have to both listen to the Mind and not listen to the Mind. Watch:

Do a website block on every website you have a problem with. Also turn the screen color to Greyscale. I did all this to my phone.

Passion fuels success. The stuff about Life Purpose in this video is great:

It can use useful as a preliminary to Meditation. But it's not Meditation. Meditation is more conscious than daydreaming. Although, there are a lot of daydreams that I'm sure fall into the realm of Meditation, but they're not all strictly Meditation. Meditation is more intentional, more disciplined than daydreaming. Although, let's not downgrade daydreaming either. Daydreaming is awesome -- I did it a lot in my Teens and 20's. You wanna nurture that part of yourself that is authentic, that is coming up with original and authentic ideas, visualizations, and plans. That part of you was there since you were a kid. You wanna find that again. There's an intuition there that you can tap into. Intuition is important in personal development. Video to Watch:

@Hero in progress Great idea. What is truth? Does truth apply to meanings or thoughts? If so, what justifies that application? Culture is the only way we get ideas. What is Truth? Let's contemplate that. Is it meaning, thought, language? What are meanings, thought, and language though?

This is so true. Enlightenment included. You gotta live it. You gotta wanna become a master of it.

You might look into doing some Life Purpose work.

Great illustration of how to overcome the False-choice Trap. Instead of either-or, do both.

Are you passionate about improving your life and future? What kind of vision do you have for your future? Vision is what fuels passion.

You gotta be aware everytime the pattern emerges not just once. It doesn’t dissolve after one noticing.

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 tongues) 7. Education (Exploring world ideas and history leading to reliable knowledge and wisdom) 8. Cultivation of the Authentic-Self (Maslow's Pyramid, Life Purpose, 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)

This video is right up your alley: