Joseph Maynor

It’s normal. For me it happens without any precipating cause, usually in the beginning of a sit. I think it’s the Body-Mind becoming more integrated, that’s my working thesis. The Mind likes to treat the Body like cargo most of the time, but when you meditate, awareness spills out into the Body and the Mind in equal measure, which causes a kind of re-integration process. The Mind crowns itself and likes to break up reality into parts, but when you meditate the Mind has to adjust to the idea that it can’t slip that under you now the same way, because now you are watching everything keenly.

Another one of my recent insights.

This is kind of a new insight I had.

Try to get in sync where you are sleeping when the Body wants to sleep not when the Mind wants the Body to sleep. Body awareness can be built where the Body will communicate very clear information about when and how much sleep it needs.

Your intellect will come back to you. I went through a stage like this myself. You can't rush this process. Just be patient. Intellectual interests will return for you.

How is the Mind projecting this concept of Law onto reality? Where does this word and concept called "law" come from? How exactly are you assuming that this "law" metaphor models or describes reality? Are laws part of reality or something that the Mind lays on top of reality?

Just keep an open mind and resign yourself to whatever happens. Relax and don't tense up your body.

I just bought this book. I look forward to reading it and applying it.

Nice insight. Language and the theories created using language are entirely metaphorical. Read this book to find out more:

What vitamins and supplements are you taking?

Yeah. It's a very high level. Watch this video to get a taste of Stage Turquoise: Background:

If it looks really good, smells really good, and tastes really good -- it's probably, but not always, bad. Use that as a good rule of thumb. When you develop Body mindfulness, your body will tell you want it wants and needs.

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What’s your daily meditation habit like?

It's good. I enjoyed it. I feel like the Now never changes. That's really the most important insight in Metaphysics. The Now does not change.

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You seem to have a high value for education, how come you aren't honoring that? OR maybe you don't really authentically value education, but the Shadow realizes that you should value it, so you are judging yourself for not doing something that you feel you should be doing.

Watch this video:

This only works if you have self control and emotional mastery.

No. I never understood it enough to be able to practice it. That is probably due to me not to the teaching though. I need to learn about it deeper at some point.

Logical understanding is not the only kind of understanding. I used a paradox recently: It is possible to be dispassionately passionate. That looks like a logical contradiction on the surface, but it actually makes sense.

When you’re always meditating, not just during the sits.

When you're going through something just remind yourself that it's temporary and in a couple of hours you will be feeling better looking back upon it proud that you knew that too at the time. The Mind is like a baby that needs to be cared for dearly so that it rests most of the time. But it will still act up and will need to be extended some patience with the knowledge that soon it will be asleep again.

I intend to make use of the New Year as a natural new chapter for me. It's almost like I'm behaving that way now -- trying to crunch before the year-end final exam.