Joseph Maynor

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:

@Source_Mystic Do you see that this belief is false: "I understand the nature of thought as an approximation and not a perfect facsimile of reality." What is the nature of thought? What is an approximation of reality? What is a facsimile of reality? What is I understand? What is I? There's a lot of stuff to contemplate here. Can you see how the Mind is hiding behind this linguistic facade, propping it up with a house of cards? But it seems so true huh -- so real! Until you look a little deeper -- a little more carefully. All meaning is false.

The Mind often has different expectations than reality delivers. This is the source of all resistance. When the Mind doesn’t get from reality what it wanted or was expecting, it delivers a rebuke in the form of a negative feeling and/or a negative visualization. Everything that is happening is outside the control of the Mind, but the Mind affirms otherwise. This is what causes all suffering in life. The Mind has a false belief of control over reality. When it gets its way it’s happy, when it doesn’t it's not. The Mind needs to become aware of this trap. That’s a big piece of Enlightenment work right there. The Mind is a phenomenon within reality, not the controller of reality. But, see, it thinks it is, until its awareness is sufficiently raised to see all the unnecessary suffering this false-belief causes. Then the Mind will release this limiting-belief and all that suffering drops out of your life.

Meditate for 1 hour per day for 30 days. Just be the watcher, don’t try to manipulate anything when you meditate. Just be aware of what is happening. Note what things are inner and outer sounds, thoughts, inner visualizations, outer touch, inner touch (aka feelings/emotions). Just watch all of it happen. Watch that Monkey-Mind do what it does.

Take as many of the tests as you can and compare the results. That’s all you can do. This is still better than not doing this. You’re bound to learn something of value about yourself that you were not fully conscious of. Do every free online credible diagnostic test. Why not? This is an excellent use of your personal development time. Do all the free tests on Authentichappiness.com too. You gotta register first, but it’s easy. This is real work that will get you real awareness, not just empty talk about vague concepts. This is some of the highest-quality work you can be doing in personal development: increasing awareness of your authentic-self. I’m a big fan of credible diagnostic tests. I wanna take as many as I can, including career assessment tests.

There is no you that uses the Ego. That’s a thought-story, and all thought-stories are false. What is the Ego? Does the Ego exist? If it doesn’t exist, what are we talking about when we use the language “the Ego”? All nice stuff to contemplate. Don’t take anything for granted in this work. You think you found the right answer — but you’re gonna find out sooner or later that you don’t have it because there is no conceptual right-answer. It’s all technically wrong.

It’s not a matter of choosing belief A or B, it’s realizing that this choice is just a low-consciousness cultural game. People don’t grok this fully while stuck in the Rationalist Paradigm. They keep looking for beliefs and paradigms to be true. They don’t realize what the concept of truth is. They’ve never contemplated that fully.

Yeah. My monkey chatter is pretty low now too. Great insight. I don’t even have bad dreams anymore. I used to have bad dreams on occasion. The only time I get bad monkey chatter is when I’m stressed by something acute happening in my life.

But all of this is seen through the lens of your awareness. So, only your awareness is really there. These two perspectives are identified by the Mind in your awareness. This is tricky. Do you see it! There are no objects, things, perceivers. There is only the One, and you are it. And the One is not two. This is what non-duality means. All language is entirely metaphorical and dualistic.

What is a fact? Contemplate that one. You’ll see that you’re not as solid about this as the Mind likes to think.

The idea that words are pointing to things is just another false belief, false paradigm. All beliefs are false. Don’t look for a rational proof of this either. It can only be confirmed by keen-awareness.

Yes. The Devil is the Ego. Hell is living within the Egoic Paradigm. Religion is just Spirituality expressed within the Egoic Paradigm. God is high-consciousness or keen-awareness. Heaven is the happiness and peace caused by being God.

Consciousness means awareness. High-consciousness mean high-awareness. Low-consciousness means low-awareness.