Joseph Maynor

Don't try to control. Just watch the situations. Be aware of the process. Watch all the emotions and see how these events play themselves out. Be an observer. These are not your emotions. Don't identity with anything. You don't exist. Start to see how the ego, the identity; creates all negative emotions. So -- this is a good time for you! Be happy! Watch and learn. Observation is how you grow.

Start to play a musical instrument of your choice and just start to learn how to jam on that instrument for a while. Then, start to inquire. Your inquiries will have some nice foundation now. Otherwise your mind is just gonna run wild on its own without any footing in reality.

You don't have any control. Just be aware. There is no you that has control! You gotta grok that.

What does it mean to be truly enlightened?

What do you like about her work?

There is a time in life for great study and learning. If you are tapping into that, great! I tapped into it for a long time myself too. Knowledge is important. I hope you are getting a feel of what your authentic self is. That is what you want to start to tap into. Great Video to Watch: I watched it last night myself to review.

Let go and discover who you are.

What do you feel you still need to learn?

It would be nice if we could stop our lives to do enlightenment work, but we can’t do that. You don’t have a choice anyway. You’re gonna do whatever you do and you just gotta accept it. The best thing you can do is maintain as much awareness on the situation as possible. My business has taken a toll during the last 6 months I’ve been doing enlightenment work real heavy. So, I know what you’re talking about. But I feel really happy too, happier than ever!

Once you figure out all of the ways that the mind colors reality you will see it. You will see it by learning what awareness is and over time your awareness will increase to where you can make a distinction between mind and not mind. And this distinction doesn’t have to be perfect because it has a practical use.

Trump's picture should be in the dictionary under Ego. I'm not judging him. He has an interesting life, and he chose it and worked hard for it. He is a fascinating case to study. We need to realize that one way to live is not necessarily better than another way to live. The people who cling strongly to judging Trump should have their pictures in the dictionary under Ego too. Is that paradoxical? Well . . . What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Think about it. From God's perspective Trump is just fine, and so are his critics, and so are the people who don't care about him.

Other people have nothing to do with you and you comparing yourself to other people cannot help you. It doesn't solve anything at all for you to compare your own life with other people. You should not be envying anybody else. You don't know what their lives are really like. What you're doing is projecting your life onto theirs, which is just a fantasy. And all you're doing is causing yourself unnecessary suffering and distraction. Watch this video: It's a great one. One of my favorites.

There is no quick fix. You need to develop a Mastery mindset with Personal Development. You're not gonna get an easy answer. You need to chunk this process down into a daily routine. I would watch all of Leo's videos first. You need a theoretical background to draw from in this work. You gotta start from where you are and pay your dues to get growth. It takes a lot of work. More than most people think. And you gotta be your own guru to do it. To do that effectively, you need lots of information. That's what Leo's videos give you. Any easy answer only works for someone who already has a deep shore of reference to understand it. There's no quick way to build a deep shore of reference either. It takes years, a lifetime. You need to figure out where you are in this process, get to work, and do work on a daily basis. What work is appropriate for you at this time depends on where you actually sit in this process. Watch:

Here's a question for you -- In which ways do you think you can still grow and mature in life? Can you foresee how you might think, feel, and value differently than you do now? Do this, give me some sentences.

@Jhonny Start by clarifying goals and working on your optimism. If you don’t have clear goals you’re not even in the game. Make a list of goals like this: things I want to accomplish in 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 1 year from now. Watch this video: Another good one. Do the exercise at the end too.

@Brimstone Awesome! I love it!

Have you ever inquired into how much nothing actually says?

Here's a great video to watch if you haven't watched this one:

The answer to this question depends on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go. You could question the existence/non-existence distinction if you want to. But to not go that far, and just for kicks, I would say this. What is sensed is real. But what the mind says about what is sensed is not real. So, you may see imagery that looks like a witch, but that doesn't mean that the belief "witches exist" is true. Of course you could question the real/non-real distinction too. The bottom line is that concepts are never true. Awareness just is. Awareness is mute. Anything said about Awareness using language is technically false. It's like trying to catch air with a net. That said, we can sort of speculate with language in a way that sort of gets at the truth but never very accurately so. We don't want to pooh pooh enlightenment "theory" work because it is useful. But it needs a huge caveat next to it, and it gets annoying to have to repeat this every time it needs repeating, but it must be done. The mind wants to take these ideas and turn them into ideology, which is a huge trap to watch out for (maybe the worst of all traps). You gotta maintain your independence in enlightenment practice and never get complacent with any ideology. Watch:

I was addressing why the illusion of ego exists in my answer. Yeah — you don’t wanna assume that the ego exists. The ego is illusory.

Status is a creature of the mind not of reality. It is a concept. From God’s perspective there is no status.

Are you sure this is a real problem and not one invented by the mind? The ego will try to sabotage in this way by undermining confidence. That’s why you need to get to a state of not knowing to remove that fodder for the ego to exploit. Not knowing knowing. Not doing doing.