Joseph Maynor

@Wyatt Technically no. Awareness cannot be conceptualized. We can dance around awareness with concepts and describe it metaphorically, but you cannot capture reality (aka awareness) with concepts. Anything said cannot be it. Reality transcends conceptual description. Many people seem to miss this point and fall into the trap of thinking reality or awareness can be conceptualized — but it never can and it never will.

I will buy your book. You deserve to get paid for your work. You provided value to the world; thus, the world should provide value to you in return. That’s how true business should work. Congrats on the publishing! I look forward to reading this book carefully. This inspires me to step-up my own writing too. I need to get off my ass and work on my own writing much more than I currently am.

@UDT Life Purpose = Authentic Career Creation. I didn’t get this for a long time either. Most of us need to work to earn our livings. Life Purpose is a pragmatic strategy for earning money. If we didn’t have to work to earn money, we could all live in a cave and collect welfare, but 99.99% of us can’t do that. If you are forced to earn money — why not do that as authentically as you can? I don’t wanna work to earn money either, but I choose to — because I wanna be happy and not hurting in this illusion. I wanna work doing something that fits me rather than me trying to fit into someone else’s agenda. So, Life Purpose is not a necessity, it’s a pragmatic strategy. You can choose to earn money in a less authentic way too, you’ll just suffer a lot more for it. Life Purpose makes lemonade out of a batch of lemons. You’re taking a shitty fact — needing to pay for your living — and segwaying that into maximizing good and minimizing bad. Sure, you could live like a bum on the street too, although that’s not a wise strategy for the obvious reasons.

Enlightenment is the murder of the Ego by the Mind caused by increased awareness over time.

@spicy_pickles Yes, you can get past these issues. Make a project out of doing enlightenment work. Start with a daily meditation habit.

@Lauritz The idea that conceptual knowledge is mere entertainment is a false and limiting-belief. Conceptual knowledge is necessary for raising awareness. Let’s not get so smart that we start denying solid stuff. Think about it, you are using concepts to trivialize concepts. This is a common trap; a phase that I went through myself in this work, which is why I now see the trap because I came out the other end of it.

@Wyatt I don’t follow Leo, I follow his work. To me that’s a big and relevant distinction. And to clarify further, I don’t follow Leo’s work per se, his work influences me to do my own work. The only thing I follow is my own intuition. I’ve always had an aversion to followers or sheep as they’re sometimes called. I ain’t no sheep and don’t ever wanna be one either. I wouldn’t say I’m a shepherd either. It bothers me when preachers refer to their congregation as their flock. I mean, really? To my ears that rings a lot of alarm bells.

Give me your opinion please. I see this phenomenon play out out in a wider way potentially and I wanna get your insights too before I start to crystallize around any kind of answers.

@molosku The Mind has to have good reason to cannibalize the Ego for you. So, you do gotta feed the Mind info to obtain the levels of awareness required to achieve this effect. The Mind has to realize — Oh! This is hurting me! That requires as much awareness as you can get. The more the better.

Highly recommended. Explains where many words and idioms come from. This book will open your eyes about language a lot. Not dry and boring either. Well written and easy to read and navigate. Good for raising awareness of language.

All Leo’s products are great. I’m gonna do the Life Purpose Course soon too — by the end of this year.

I never had an idea of what I wanted to be. I didn't want to be anything. I didn't want to work at all. But I didn't want to be a bum either. It's just I never had a career or job that struck me. I disliked all of them. I liked them in theory, but had no interest in the practice. My interests have always been too idiosyncratic for pragmatic pigeonholing. It has put me at cross-purposes to easy money-making in life. I realize now I have to custom-design an idiosyncratic career. I wish I knew this much earlier in life. This has caused me to feel like a freak and a loser for a lot of my life just because I did not fit into the cubby-holes of our ready-made career options. Wanna be a lawyer son? Fuck no! How about a doctor? Why? Wanna kiss that professor's ass to get into grad school? Shit. I just wanna be me and be free man! But this life has to be purchased in our capitalistic world. So, career is necessary. I just needed to have my head screwed on tighter earlier on in life to design my own career much earlier in life. Yay! I didn't ask to be born, now I have to purchase my own freedom. Lucky us. See?

Great insight. Spirituality is being more attuned to reality which causes the Mind to release the Ego paradigm over time. Religions ape spirituality but never leave the Ego while doing so. Science can also ape spirituality, and any ideology believed in fervently does too. Once you discover what true spirituality is, you can see all this in high-relief and know why it is the way it is. True Spirituality is the raising of awareness. Through increased awareness over time, the Mind is forced to check itself. That’s why you need faith at first. You need to get over the Mind’s resistance to question itself before you have the awareness experiences in your pocket. The more awareness of reality you have, the more the Mind backs off from trying to bend and twist reality around the paradigm of the Ego. And you get some nice releases. This is the process of enlightenment. This is not conceptual, it is like having what you thought of as reality suddenly shift. Like when you were finally told — No, Santa Claus doesn’t exist! Sorry. For a kid, that is tough thing to swallow.

I didn’t seek enlightenment, I actually resisted it. The only reason I came to know about it or pursue it was because of Leo’s work. I was interested in personal development long before I knew about enlightenment. I would cycle back to Leo’s videos on enlightenment from time to time, and finally this year it started to resonate with me. I’ve been watching Leo’s vids since 2014. Regarding depression. The Mind causes depression, so enlightenment is the big fix for that, if you’re looking for a sustainable solution to the problem.

And I was very adamant about being me in college, I prided myself on it actually. After college, I feel like I gave that part of me away or it got burned out of me, and I had to re-discover it just recently. Does this resonate with your experience? I was pretty adamant when I was in college that I wanted to be a freelance writer. And the recent life purpose work I did seems to confirm that. But when I got out of college, I didn't have the wisdom or the balls to actually make it happen, so I didn't do it. I took a more conventional job as a paralegal instead. I wanted to write on the side, but now I realize that that was not giving my career the shot of adrenaline it needed to be a real backbone for my life: so I could support myself and my life with my career fully. If you treat your job like a hobby, your backbone is gonna be more like jelly than a steel-rod. You need a steel-rod backbone to live an exciting, Big life. I think I had a limiting belief that writers don't make money or that it's really hard to make money as a writer. I never explored this either. Video on point to watch:

The trick is to tell the stories in a way that resonates with them. When you communicate, always tailor your discourse to your audience. Draw the — what the fuck do I care? — connection between what you’re trying to convey and that person’s values and personality. That’s your job, not theirs. You’re the one with the stories to tell. Put it in a language your audience can easily understand.

The best kind of contemplation is meditation.

No steady paycheck unless you earn it. No bennies or freebies. No help from anyone — you wear all hats and do everything. No paid holidays or paid vacations. No bonuses. No one to blame when something screws up. No free office supplies. No free office food. No free medical coverage. No free dental coverage. No getting paid for standing around and milking the clock. It’s all you at first too. If you don’t do it, it doesn’t get done. Clients who wait a long time to pay you after you send them your invoice. It’s not all rainbows and butterflies.

Awareness stays the same but the content is always changing.

Contemplate what possible means. What kind of meaning are you assuming it has? Flesh that out first. These words aren’t as clear as the Mind likes to believe they are.

Cut all your addictions and distractions sustainably. That would be huge progress right there. Keep it practical. Actually start to target and root out each one systematically. Maybe do 1 bad habit every 30 days and after 1 year you’ll have 12 bad habits snuffed-out. That’s real growth right there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selling_England_by_the_Pound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxtrot_(album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursery_Cryme

This is just an idea from my point of view. You should do an enlightenment course. And also the reprogramming course. Both of those courses would be very powerful. Another course would be the execution course teaching people the pragmatics and logistics of execution and peak-performance -- or you can add this material to the reprogramming course. Enlightenment, Life Purpose, Reprogramming, Execution

You're the awareness that everything is happening in. And everything is one. See what these statements are pointing to. That's the experience you want to have. And it's not a conceptual experience. You need to grok being fully by being it. It was profound when I first had this experience myself. It's one of those life-changing moments. When you fully grok that awareness is the only permanent thing, not just conceptually but really, you will think of yourself in an entirely new way. And you'll also think about external reality in an entirely new way too, including other people.

I think the truly enlightened person is able to re-enter the illusion without re-entering the illusion. It makes a complete circle paradoxically. Before enlightenment: carry water, chop wood. After enlightenment: carry water, chop wood. This is deeply profound.