Joseph Maynor

@TylerW You must have the belief that you were hurt or wronged by people.

Write down the concept you will be contemplating. E.g., Truth or Awake or Mind or Awareness or Being, etc. Make sure you know what it is that you’re contemplating about. That’s how you make progress. You’re wiring-in awareness. You don’t wanna be off-track not having a particular goal in mind. I wouldn’t say that’s wasted time, it’s just not focused time. We wanna be focused — like a fire-hose delivering a lot of water to a very specific region, rather than being like rain which covers everything but has no real targeted effect. Be more like a fire-hose than rain! Haha.

It gets rid of the problems that are caused by clinging to the Ego. A lot of suffering will get released.

Part of the job of a good communicator is to make it as easy and intuitive as possible for your customers to access and navigate your work. Make a capsule outline of the videos. Always keep your eye on your customer and their needs. That’s what business is all about. Think from your customer’s perspective always. What can I do to provide more true-value (not apparent-value) to my customer? Frame that and hang that on your wall. That’s the most important principle of business. Shit, I’d even be down to write this outline myself. I’ve watched all Leo’s videos three-times over. Every one of them is high-quality and valuable. And you better believe that’s why I advanced so quickly in this work. What you work on is what you improve. There’s wisdom in them thar hills! Get yer hiking boots laced-up and let’s go explore! Got yer map, yer compass, yer bug spray? See? Leo — think in terms of the recruit who is gonna go on this journey. What tools could they use to make this journey easier and more efficient for them? What could you slip into their backpack that would assist them on their journey? Video on Point to Watch:

I wonder if anyone watched all the videos like I did. See, I was fortunate to be following Leo since 2014 and I have watched each video when it came out. I feel like people want to be spoon-fed this stuff, but all the answers are encased in those videos! And there is very little overlap except for the Enlightenment videos. At this point it might be better to do an Enlightenment Course rather than releasing more Enlightenment videos. Another tool might be a chart that maps all the videos so people can navigate all that. Sell that chart for 20 bucks. The chart would summarize all the videos and put them in relation to the other videos. That would help people navigate the mountain that these videos have become. You gotta give your explorers a map.

Assertiveness. You gotta be tough, focused, driven, and assertive to be successful as an entrepreneur. Women have this in them too just like men do. It’s funny, a talented women is so much more capable than a man in business. I’ve seen it. Once women lose their fears and timidity, they really become amazing in business. I could give you examples of this. My office is in a Center with other entrepreneurs in downtown San Francisco. Some of the very best entrepreneurs I’ve seen over the years in my Center are strong, assertive women. They’re great with relationships too in a way that most men kinda suck at.

It’s funny that there’s a taboo in this work against saying you’ve awakened. Nobody gets to admit that! Ever! Who made this rule? Why is it enforced all the time? Do I get to choose for myself? Let’s not deny the obvious. There are differences is awareness amongst people. That is very obvious. You do have people that are more awake than others.

It doesn’t change your work, but it would change how people would resonate with you as consumers of your work. That’s the key. They would be turned-off by you.

It just makes the author smell like poo. It makes it hard to relate to him. It’s like listening to an artist’s music after finding out something unsavory about them. It’s gonna change how you resonate with the work. It’s hard to treat someone well when you feel like they are a bad person — even their writing, and even if it’s good stuff! You’ll have a resistance there. I agree with Leo that increased awareness can dissolve this block, but for many people it will be there.

Ask yourself this question: What can I do to get excited about doing this activity? Brainstorm some answers.

I appreciate your willingness to do real work here. That takes guts. Good for you. If you don’t label the problem you can’t deal with it effectively. You’re on your way. Keep awareness on this issue and you will start to see improvements on it over time. Be a bit patient too. It takes a few months to start to see the fruits of your awareness.

@Lorcan There is so much wisdom in Leo’s videos it’s insane. I’ve studied all of them. The problem is that nobody wants to watch all the videos and take notes on all of them. People want to be spoon-fed without doing hard work in personal development. They expect this work to be easy and hand-holding. No other subject is treated like this. Only special people are gonna work really hard at this stuff — and naturally those people will be rewarded.

It’s just two perspectives. They don’t have to be reconciled. It’s like 2 views of the same thing. There doesn’t have to be just one right way to think about something. I know this sounds flippant from the Rationalist Paradigm point of view. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

Being is awareness. Awareness is being.

Yep, when you’re awake Enlightenment is a no-brainer. It’s just awareness combined with experience.

There’s something to be said for getting away from culture and media. I like what asceticism does in moderation. People take it too far though, like everything else that gets reduced to meanings. The Mind loves to cling to meanings. The problem is — all meanings are false!

Congrats. I love that you're excited about your work. I'm excited to be doing life purpose work finally. There's only kind of dive, and that's a deep-dive.

I'm an army of one baby! Let's dust this one off:

You have to both listen to the Mind and not listen to the Mind. Watch:

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.