Joseph Maynor

Yep. Are you excited about this path?

Music can be a conduit for higher-consciousness. It can disrupt culture and allow you to get up underneath culture. Music can also calm and relax the Mind, which changes how the Mind judges and controls. You dissolved the Ego for a little bit by changing your context with the music.

Low-consciousness is gonna prevail over higher-consciousness because the Ego feeds off existing culture. Higher-consciousness requires arms-lengthing culture. That is much harder to do. It requires courage and guidance.

Yes. Karma is simple. It means that low-consciousness actions are like spitting into the wind, they come back on you. So, when you act from the Ego, you get suffering back from that. Basically, if you act unauthentically -- the Mind has to by necessity be at war with itself.

How are you going to deal with your self-esteem issue?

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?