Joseph Maynor

Sorry for trying to help you. My intentions are good. Maybe other people can appreciate my posts.

Another absolutely excellent video for Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vāsanā https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satsang

Another absolutely fantastic video for people who want to become Enlightened: Mooji just nails it

All striving by the Ego-Mind fits this not just the businessman. Being is not striving. Don't mistake this to be against striving, because that's just another attachment. But you gotta see how the Mind is rigging this "need" for more.

This is a great video to watch: One of the best videos I've seen

What do you "need" to leave behind? And why do you "need" to leave this behind? Would it be ok with you if you were just happy right now without "needing" to do anything? What is clinging to this "responsibility" belief? (Hint: it's the Mind, the Ego-Mind)

Being is not hard. What makes being hard is when you're trapped in the Ego-Mind. This is why you have to find being and transcend the Ego and the Mind. This way even though they will continue to operate, they won't capture you as much. But being is not a hard thing. That's a belief that being is hard. Don't believe that.

Start to see how approval is translated into thoughts. See those thoughts. You'll experience the ping in your awareness when that need for approval strikes you. Learn to notice it and realize that it's just a thought.

I agree. Shadow work becomes easier when you're able to transcend the Ego-Mind. This only comes through awareness of the Mind and the Ego such that you can see the Ego and the Mind operating in yourself and see how they are laid up on top of being.

I've gone there and back, and realized it was a trap of my Mind. The Mind is a sneaky lil' devil!

See, that's already getting into concept-land. "Being" is just a pointer to being.

Great insight.

What does Leo post on Twitter?

As you can see we all disagree about how to conceptualize Enlightenment work. Some of us are more conservative than others are with language use in describing Enlightenment. You got people who have a rich metaphysics and people who have virtually no metaphysics. You got people who sound religious and people who are the opposite of that. That's why you have to find it for yourself. But I think it's good you ask at the start because you do need some guidance in the beginning and it is confusing for a while until you start to trust your own intuition on the Path.

Enlightenment work is genuinely transforming. I'm a pretty no BS person and it has transformed me. It takes time and work though. And there are many traps on Path too. But you locate more and more of the traps as you go along so you can avoid them.

I like the word "emptiness". But even this word is misleading. But it's the best word I thought of. "This is me" is a thought "within" "emptiness" to use a crappy linguistic metaphor because I have no choice but to converse about being in language here.

Why does there have to be "something aware"? That seems like the Mind is forcing that thought on being to me. The Mind is insisting.

I'm inclined to think "awareness" is a concept that's laid on top of being. Being without any thought present has nothing to do with "awareness". We only consider "awareness" in being when the concept of "awareness" is present.

What is this "me" that's perfect and amazing?

Yes and a great one I can recommend on Audible is: "The Buddha -- A Very Short Introduction" https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Buddha-A-Very-Short-Introduction-Audiobook/B00GLU6YGC?source_code=GPAGBSH0508140001&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgueU3ajs4AIVIxh9Ch09wwWrEAQYASABEgLgAPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I've experienced a similar Path to yours.

"Truth is universal" is also a thought and words.

Nice! Or how about cutting your wiener off. Ah, no problem, go ahead. It was in the cards.

I went through the God stage on the Path and then came out of that. I realized that was my Ego-Mind clinging to belief. All of that is documented in my Journals. I've transcended the Mind enough to see everything that it clings to. That's the great thing about finding being and realizing that being is not clinging to any thought, including the thought "I am this or that".