Joseph Maynor

Ah awareness. This is the most important thing to cultivate. Cure: Mindfulness meditation. Do for at least 15 minutes per day for 30 days. This video also has some nice insights in it about awareness:

The mind can't grab reality. The mind is part of reality. Relevant video:

Zero. No self. No world. People and things are makings of the mind. You're the invisible person. Just because you wore clothing all your life doesn't mean that you always will. Maybe you will become ok with being invisible at some point. Invisibility is beautiful! Spread the word.

Nice. That's what I love about meditation. Every once in a while you get that really great session.

I went though lots of bouts with studying too. Just key into your intuition, is it genuine? If so, honor the Muse. Video right up your alley:

Don't consider them people. Don't consider yourself a person either. Opinions can only have power over you if you give reality to other people, and that is a thought-story. All your problems melt away when you realize how the mind augments reality fully. All of our problems and suffering comes from the mind; not from other people other things or the world.

A few more albums I love:

@egoless I love all types of electronic music, including Techno. Music is very mind-expanding. Here's a gem: Grandfather of modern electronic music. Another amazing gem: That thick sound is the "Big Moog." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moog_synthesizer Here's another gem: Ah man. I can't leave this one out: Dark but amazing. Same band 4 years later. Check this one out. Totally different style.

And the Devil would have rockstar kids, if you think about it. Sex, drugs, and rock & roll. I like the Devil on South Park. And Jesus and God on Family Guy. Do a Google Search on the images. Hilarious!

@Max_V Every time I put something into words, that's what I am thinking! Using language is like trying to play professional baseball with a Nerf bat and Wiffle ball.

Realize it's all a dream, that you don't exist other than Being, and that the mind is deceiving you into believing everything is real when everything except Being in the moment is illusory. Then all your obstacles will simply melt away. There are no more obstacles or concerns. You just watch life live itself. If you can let go to this extent, all your obstacles will fall away. It all stems from realizing fully that you don't exist in any manner other than Being in the present moment. Not just understanding that intellectually, but truly grokking it. Being able to let go and see the effect it has. It's remarkable and counter-intuitive. There is no need to do anything except maintain Awareness in the present moment, which is what Being is. Awareness alone is curative. No self. Video on point:

@Brimstone Sorry. I realize my post was probably below your level. I try to tailor my posts to someone's level. But you seem much more advanced than I assumed.

Pay attention to what is perceived versus how the mind is augmenting reality. Pay attention to what is perceived versus how the mind is augmenting reality. Now -- Is anything that the mind is telling you what you actually perceive? Start to pay attention to how the mind augments reality. Start to see how that augmentation differs from what is actually there, what is actually perceived. This will yield you some juicy insights. Do a comparison and contrast in the moment. A lot of the practice of Enlightenment is making your awareness much more keen. Videos on point:

Being does have a kind of indirect control through awareness. Awareness can improve your movie. That's the relation. Awareness alone is curative. Awareness is a feature of Being. So, you can improve your movie by heightening your awareness. But, still, you have no control over the result. The dream has to auto-correct, you don't have any control over that. But you can see the problems: notice them. That is part of Being, and that you can "control". You're the watcher. A good watcher sees all the shit. The more shit you see, the more your movie cleans up its act. It's a weird cause/effect relation that seems to transcend free-will. Free-will assumes there's a self, so there is no free-will because there's no self. Although there is no self and thus no free-will, awareness still can cleanse your dream and steer it from a nightmare to a fantasy or somewhere in between. So, Being doesn't have direct control, more like an indirect control. Being has indirect control by its noticing capability. Awareness alone is curative. Being is non-symbolic, pure, transparent, empty awareness in the present moment. You are Being. Videos on point:

It's funny that we're arguing over the answer here. There's a paradox in there too. One of the things I realized is that when you shack-up with the mind you get fleas. Being just is. All rationalizations are thought-stories. You are non-symbolic, pure, empty, awareness, in the present moment. And that is Being. Of course this is just a monkey-mind description. You have to see what this monkey-speak is pointing you to. Where in this do you find people or things? You are no-thing. I take this literally. Well, what it's pointing to that is.

@dorg Well said. I agree.

Keep meditating. Try to let the mind take a nap when you meditate. Don't force it to, but don't be thinking when you're meditating either. Just do do nothing meditation for 30 minutes. Get in touch with the body. Let the mind do what it wants, but don't encourage it. Just appreciate Being in the present moment. Notice everything you are aware of -- sounds, images, thoughts, emotions, touch, taste. Notice that thoughts are real as sensations, but the images, ideas, visualizations, are taken by the mind to be real when they are not real. There is a giant illusion going on with thoughts. But then thoughts do exist as sensations. Thoughts are both True and false. This is a very nice area to do inquiry work!