Joseph Maynor

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.

@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.

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

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.

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Unfolding Check out the actual album cover!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structures_from_Silence Cool zoom in on the actual album cover:

KILLER PRODUCTIVITY STRATEGY TO GET YOU MORE ACTIONS ACCOMPLISHED Strategy: Break the project up into a set of sub-projects. Do each sub-project one at a time in a sequence; Put each sub-project on an index card and arrange the cards in a sequence. As you compete an item, throw the card away; Once you throw all the cards away, you're done! This productivity strategy is to break a large project down into a series of parts and do each part in a sequence. Create a visual aid with the index cards, which keep the Mind satisfied because it knows where it is in the project. The Mind also likes to know when it accomplishes a sub-project -- that's why it's good to throw each card away when each sub-project is completed. These kinds of things keep the Mind on board. The Mind does not like to be put upon. You have to engage it nicely with the project or it will resist and throw up a defense mechanism. Fatigue is one of the Mind's common defense mechanisms when it is not on board with what is happening. Watch yourself start yawning! Another method for getting the Mind on board with what you are trying to do is: Visualize beforehand doing the project from start to end so the Mind is made aware of what to expect. This reduces resistance too. On my walk to work in the mornings I visualize my entire day from that point to when I go to sleep. I try to visualize everything in detail that I am going to do that day. This benefits me enormously because it gives the Mind a nice heads-up, and the Mind knows in advance what to expect. I can't tell you how beneficial this practice is for sailing through your day like a hot knife through a stick of butter! The Mind has to be treated nicely like a potentially menacing dog. You're not just gonna yank a pit bull's leash and expect it to jump and do what you want it to! Unless you're crazy, right? You gotta treat it nicely and entice it to do what you want. It has to decide to do what you want. It has to be on board with you. The mind works like that too. Here's another metaphor to get at this from a different angle. You know when you are downloading some software and you get one of those little timers or circles that fills in that lets you know how long you have to wait for the downloading process to happen? Well, that comforts the Mind, because you couldn't take it having to wait there if you didn't know how long you had to wait! That would be so unnerving, think about it. What I said above is sort of the same principle. You're letting the Mind know what to expect in your day and what to expect in your projects, so that its neuroses don't manifest. The Mind is "bought in" so to speak, at least tacitly.

Start to work on Enlightenment more. Get into Leo's videos on Enlightenment. It takes a lot of work. Get involved on here and ask lots of questions. Grab the bull by the horns and make it a goal to learn about Enlightenment.

Start to do enlightenment work seriously. You need to find your authentic self. Until you do, you're gonna suffer. You need to peel the layers of your onion back to get some growth happening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age_of_Earth