Joseph Maynor

You can think of Enlightenment as Awareness. It is a seeing of the landscape.

I'm not really a fan of the word "infinite". I know Leo likes it though.

You could benefit from doing some shadow work I think. You got a lot of stuff rattling around in your subconscious mind that needs to be worked with.

Have you snapped back into things yet!

What is Truth with a Capital T? Contemplate that first. Gimme some of your words to work with.

You need to go through Leo's Life Purpose Course. The sooner you can get started the better.

Congratulations! Yep — Enlightenment is very practical. It’s not just a bunch of fancy things to say. You should be feeling things change. That’s true progress. I’m happy for you.

I love this answer. Very thought provoking.

The Ego can only be as good as the low-consciousness awareness that allowed the ideas and habits to accumulate the way they did that the Mind clings to: The scripts and patterns that you've been programmed to run or expect. Awareness is what dissolves the Ego over time if one is properly walking the path of Enlightenment. The Guru guides the tenderfoot through the forest. Watch this video:

Yep. If you wanna nip this issue in the bud, do Leo's Life Purpose Course. I'm doing it myself right now, and this is what that course deals with. You gotta go through the Life Purpose process, which is a lengthy and deep process. The Mind doesn't think Life Purpose is needed. I've requested that Leo do a video on that issue. The Mind will tell you that Life Purpose work is frivolous work. That's a trap. Life Purpose work is as important as Enlightenment work.

I see it. All of the dualities are partial and illusory. He's messing with space and time too. Neither are to any kind of scale. Notice the small houses and the size of tree in the foreground. He's fucking with space there! Space is behaving in a non-linear way. ////////////////////////////////////////////////// Here's a pic I like:

Yes. Just start to get into the flow of your job. Become one with what you are doing. What is causing you a lot of suffering is the Ego wants to think of itself as separate from what is happening in reality. When it does that, it wants to judge harshly. Just realize that the best way to attack this effect is to get yourself into flow states where reality has coalesced in on itself.

It would be cool if the questions that you answer highlight or in some other way indicate that you have answered them. That way when you look at the screen at a glance you can see which questions you have and have not answered. I find that I am growing a lot by "answering" questions on the Forum now, and I want to make that process as efficient as possible.

This is my life calling! I just realized that. My life calling is freeing people from limiting-beliefs.

What is your daily meditation habit like? You sound full of neurotic energy. We gotta deal with that issue first. Can you commit to a 1 hour meditation session every morning? Do nothing meditation -- just be the Watcher. Remember -- life is counter-intuitive. You need to just stop and relax and listen to your intuition in meditation for a while. Stop running around like a chicken with its head cut off. That might seem like it is helping you, but it's not. You're just stressing yourself out more. Meditate as much as possible right now. Do it in bed if you have a hard time doing it sitting up. Just do it. You need to listen to the still, quiet voice inside of you that you can't hear very well yet. Slow down, relax, and open up. Let the authentic self work on you for a while.

I have always been an introvert, although some periods of my life more-so than others. The problem with me is that I get a lot of peace just being by myself. I don't feel like I want to entertain someone else. That's what it feels like to me to be around other people. I feel like I have to entertain them, like I have to put whatever I was thinking about on-ice until the interaction parts-ways. See -- I am always working on something, always thinking. Even when I am not thinking, I'm just enjoying the silence. I tend to feel vibes of manipulation when I'm around other people, and I just would rather not deal with that on a regular basis. I have no problem doing it, it's just not my preferred default-position. My preferred default-position is where I get to be me and only have to be me. So, for me, I am an introvert because most people just slow me down. I have too many important things to do with my time -- and I don't want to compromise too much of it.

Watch these two videos:

Meditation is just the beginning of your journey to explore the Ego. For now, just watch the monkey-mind. Observe it like a scientist. What is the monkey-mind doing when you meditate? Are you keeping your awareness on that?

Get your diet down to a science. Make sure you are meeting all your dietary needs. Get some supplements that help you. Know how much of the different macros you are getting when you eat and how much more you need at all times. This will keep you fueling your body with maximum awareness. Since I have been doing this, I don't get tired anymore. Now I let my body tell me what it needs, and it does. Listen to your hunger -- it communicates very clear information to you. I also have certain things that I eat like beans, and I use a lot of indian spices that are healthy and flavorful. I also try not to eat meat or breads. I stay away from white rice too -- and all pre-packaged foods. I only eat real food. Whatever I can eat that is real, I'll eat it. But, again, I am trying to stay away from meat and carbs and things that have a lot of empty calories like fried foods. Watch out for peanut butter too because it has palm oil in it, which you need to Google to find out what that is. Try to stay away from sugar, it's as addictive as Cocaine and it throws your whole system out of whack. If you're getting too much sugar, that could be why you're tired. A little sugar from time to time keeps the brain happy though. I can sense when my brain wants a couple sugar packets -- like when I've been thinking for a long time. But know when to stop with the sugar too -- you gotta give the proper dose at the proper time when the Body asks for it. If you saw how I eat you'd be shocked. I eat like a scientist charged with the task of keeping a machine properly fueled. I am so sensitive that I can perceive the smiles and frowns that the Body gives me after a fueling session. If you are feeling like shit, it's because the Body is sick from shitty food and shitty information being fed to it too much. You gotta purify yourself sometimes. Eat a bunch of carrots and drink a few cups of green tea back to back -- that's a nice cleanse. Raw "adult-sized" carrots (eat them whole not the peeled ones or the baby ones) are great to have around to snack on, and the Body loves them too because of the fiber and vitamin content they have. They do have a bit of sugar in them, so if you eat carrots a lot you gotta watch your other sugar intake. Peanut butter and margarine contain palm oil. http://www.saynotopalmoil.com/Whats_the_issue.php https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/jun/14/palm-oil-margarine

No. Are you watching the movie that the monkey-mind is giving you? That's what you need to be doing. Just be the Watcher, the observer of the monkey-mind.

Do Leo's Life Purpose Course if you haven't done it. What you think is your life purpose is probably not very well thought out. You need to dig deep and chart your authentic-self very accurately. I thought I had a life purpose too, but it was way off. I'm doing the course myself now.

Everybody here is just as scared as you are. Just put yourself out there. That’s how you’ll grow fastest. If you hold it in, you can’t grow. So, just develop an I don’t give a fuck kind of an attitude. Everyone here is embarrassed to some extent, but we’re all doing it, so the shame is minimized. Openness will make you grow so much so fast. You’ll catch some shit too — but just ignore those posts. Your mission is to grow. To grow, you gotta break yourself open so people can have a look inside. Then you’ll get some great feedback and you’ll develop more and more awareness. If you hold it in, you are here but not here, if that makes sense. You wanna get the most outta your participation on here. We’re all in the same Personal Development boat.

Enlightenment is a tricky beast of a thing to try to teach someone, because it’s easy to give the Mind more limiting-beliefs to avoid doing this work. I am trying my best to explain Enlightenment in a way that resonates with me that is least harmful to those trying to unhook themselves from culture. Even Enlightenment theory is a part of culture. What you want to do is free yourself from the shackles of culture, while still being in it. Then the authentic-self has a chance to get to know itself and to get out from under the mama-bear of the Mind. No quick answers in the form of beliefs are gonna help you. You gotta find the authentic-self and then convince the Mind that culture is causing you suffering. Then the Mind will release the Ego on its own through raising awareness. So, only raising awareness correlates with Enlightenment, and it takes about 6 months of consistent work to start to see real results. You are changing habits by building awareness. Some things can’t be unseen. That’s what you are shooting for. Those the Mind can’t sweep up under the rug or conveniently forget about. You know how a wet dog swivels its body back and forth to try to dry itself off? That’s kind of what Enlightenment is. You gotta shake all that culture, all that conditioning off. And no-one can do your swivel for you, you gotta do it yourself. They can tell you about their swivels, but that doesn’t really do much to help you with yours. It might mislead you to what your swivel will actually be like — because now the Mind has a bunch of notions in the air telling it what to expect from the swivel. That’s why Enlightenment teachers are very careful about what they say and how they say it.