Joseph Maynor

Don't pull your bread out of the oven before it's done baking. Don't underestimate this beautiful Forum. Just when you thought you were done, you soon realize -- you've really only just begun. You'll understand why in Zen they always say, "keep a beginner's mind." The Zen Master keeps a beginner's mind. He or she knows why they do so too. It's because there's always some ignorance that you can root out even at the highest levels of Ego-Mind transcendence.

I stopped trying to corral my sleep into one time of day so much. Now I make sure I get at least 6 hours of sleep and I take a nap during the day or evening of one is required. But I'm no longer anal about getting say 9 hours or 8 hours of sleep in a single block of time. I try to get at least 6 at night and sometimes I need to supplement with a nap, sometimes I don't.

Do you feel like you have a guard up? If so, how would you describe that guard that you have up?

I think Mooji is at least at Stage Coral.

Give us some examples of the toxicity and abusiveness of your boyfriend. The more examples you give, the better the feedback you're gonna get from us.

See my diet attached: Diet.pdf

White knuckle means hold on for dear life. Like one might white knuckle a car's steering wheel. It means not just cling to but cling hard to.

The Mind doesn't know how to do much else other than white-knuckle cling or believe.

I agree with this 100%.

Without researching and studying Stalin I wouldn’t be able to respond to this. But great potential counter-example dude! Maybe Blue can co-opt Green’s Utopian fantasies. [Maybe, I don’t know. This is an interesting research question for someone to look into.] But I think what we really have here though is Red co-opting Green’s fantasies to aggrandize Red. Stalin is Red not Blue. Red can manipulate Green for its own gain — including but not limited to co-opting and manipulating Green’s ideologies.

Yellow does not need to sympathize with lower levels. Nobody is forcing you to love everybody in this work. First of all, if you’re forcing yourself to love everybody that's a white-knuckle clinging of the Ego-Mind. Stop trying to love everybody or thinking you have to love everybody. That’s a belief and a goal that the Ego-Mind is clinging to.

I drink hibiscus tea everyday, it helps with blood pressure management and probably other things too. I do a tea bag of green tea and a tea bag of hibiscus when I do my nightly tea.

Ask the other person to talk about themselves. People love to talk about themselves. Look genuinely interested too when they're talking to you. Smile, but not too much or too neurotically. Make sure your body language is open and not closed. Don't do anything too neurotically. Relax. Everything about you needs to be relaxed, curious, confident, and open. Don't try to overdo confidence either. Anything you try to do that comes off as neurotic is gonna f*ck up your vibe with the other person. Here's a video you might want to watch too:

I think it's healthy for Leo to stay away from making videos for a while and just to participate on the Forum like the rest of us do.

Communism is a Green thing. Socialism is a Green thing. Communism is characteristically Green because it's idealistic, sounds good in theory, but can never work in practice. Blue is much more conservative. Blue is not flying by the seat of their pants with theory like Green does. You should actually read Marx and Mao if you wanna comment on Communism in an informed way. Communism is Green idealism and Green liberalism rum amok. It's a fantasy that's clearly stuck in the Mind that has never worked in practice. That's because reality can never be cordoned off by the Mind in the way that the intellectual Green Mind always hopes to find. It could be that Orange-Green tries to disown Communism and label it as Blue in an attempt to distance itself from Communism. But it's pretty clear to me that Communism is a Green utopia -- it's a mental, idealistic utopia that the do-gooder Green wants to re-create society with with the false hope of improving injustices in society. Read your Marx and you'll see this. Ditto for Mao. It's that 19th Century optimism about science affecting and improving everything run amok. Remember Marx and Mao thought they were doing science. You really gotta read the stuff. I'm gonna link a book below that I've read that I recommend that you read. Marx looked at himself as a Stage Green social engineer trying to improve injustices in society by putting government on a scientific foundation. Very idealistic, liberal Green. https://www.amazon.com/Early-Writings-Penguin-Classics-2000-12-31/dp/B01K0Q0RVK/ref=sr_1_3?hvadid=78134099563406&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvqmt=e&keywords=marx+early+writings&qid=1554866612&s=gateway&sr=8-3

There is no nuance in your assessment. That's always a red flag for me. Reality is nuanced, so when I see a black and white thinking Mind, my gaydar antennae goes up. Although in this case it's not measuring gayness, but it's the same kind of intuitive recognition. It's one of those, "Ah!" recognition moments.

Bingo. It's just like Zzenn will tell you, "eat the grapes and spit out the seeds" with teachers and with teachings.

This is a good example of "knowledge signaling" when I get around to writing about it in my journal. Knowledge signaling is basically intellectual virtue signaling -- it's saying, "you lack the superior knowledge that I have, so you lose and I win."

I think Zzenn is a smart guy with a unique perspective. I've learned a lot from being exposed to him. No need to demonize him. If you resonate with him, great. If not, great. It's just like he'll tell you himself about teachers and teachings, "eat the grapes and spit out the seeds." It's like George Carlin used to say, "there are two knobs on the radio, on and off." Nobody's forcing you to listen to any teacher. If you don't like Zzenn, ignore him, plain and simple. There's no need to try to demonize him. That actually makes you look bad -- to try to demonize a teacher that you don't don't resonate with. It's like you're saying, "if I don't like the guy, you shouldn't either -- if I don't like the guy, nobody should like the guy." That's extremely arrogant and reactive. That's a kind of "my way or the highway" attitude.

What is that which wonders how much of your life you're in control of?

I agree 100%.

Check out how I do my daily accountability checklist in my Journal vol. 13. Also, it really helps to have an accountability partner where you're both doing this together. That's the ideal way to do it I've found. You share your ongoing list with them and they share their ongoing list with you. That really helps I've found.

Until you're dieting and exercising every day do not accept any limiting beliefs about weight, including but not limited to the limiting belief of obesity being a metabolic disorder.

Communism seems more like a Green thing to me than a Blue thing. It's Green run amok. It's like letting the students run the university.