Joseph Maynor

How much energy does it take to do spirituality for years and years? Isn't the energy the same, but only how it is directed different? It seems the energy is the same, only the subject matter to which it is directed is different. Think about sitting under a tree meditating all day. Interestingly enough, that takes a lot of energy in the discipline it takes to do that. Elon Musk wouldn't have the energy to sit under a tree and meditate all day long.

Looking at everything as performance art is an interesting paradigm shift. When I went to the Dickens Fair a few days ago which is an immersive performance art event of Victorian era England set on Christmas Eve at 7 pm, what surprised me is how the distinctions we make nowadays were not really made back then. Artistry wasn't really so specialized. Performers were comedians, orators, musicians, tradesmen, hecklers, intellectuals -- all wrapped in one in many cases. It was more human, social and holistic than it is today. Then again this was an event, but it made me realize through specialization, we lost something magical. We lost the performance art aspect of life and community where everyone participates. The joy of this too.

I wonder how much control people have over what they do. It could just be easy and natural for them to do those things like it is easy and natural for us to do spirituality for years and years. We assume they are grinding or pushing themselves. Some people just have a lot of energy and desire to work. We assume they are suffering, but if they were, wouldn't they just stop? Maybe that's their path of least resistance oddly enough.

How would big or giant ego be defined? As opposed to a small or tiny ego?

Learning how to play Jazz.

I like to say semi-jokingly if you want to be a glutton for punishment, teach spiritual enlightenment. And it's not the normies that will come after you it's other spiritual teachers. There is a solution to this though. It's coming at it patiently and with more love. You can point and share instead of teach.

He would say there is no separate self and that this aversion in the form of beliefs and corresponding negative emotions comes from a belief in a separate self which leads to suffering because emotions are not acknowledged.

Besides being able to speak neo-advaita fluently now? I've had a few more awakenings since then. I've also been following everything on here too, so I can see how people have changed on both communities.

I've been on @Nahm's forum so long I'm not even sure there's a separate self anymore. Good to see you. It's been quite a while!

I'm thinking mathematics was created like all other artforms. But just like any other creation (e.g. a genre in music) once the tropes are laid down, a lot of discoveries are made in the artworks that follow under that artform (e.g. a chain of influence in albums in post-rock in music). If you haven't encountered this book I highly recommend it: "The Story of Mathematics" by Moltz and Weaver.

@Someone here What are the highest levels of consciousness?

1. Absolute Wisdom 2. Absolute Beauty 3. Absolute Love 4. Absolute Truth 5. Conscious Creation 6. Humor 7. Authenticity 8. Personal Development 9. Music 10. Philosophy

It's all me. It's been a long time, but here I am. Hello old and new friends.

Do you have a desire to do this?

Or is a Guru more than a Life Coach? I'm trying to get clear about this Life Coach concept which seems to be both new and old at once. Relevant video to watch:

It's a thought/visualization in the Cognitive Body.

The environment that you're in affects your whole life. You're stewing in your environment soaking all of it in. One of the best and easiest things you can do in your personal/ interpersonal development work is to optimize your setting (change where you live). I wouldn't discount this. Setting is huge. Every city that I've traveled to had a kind of controlling theme or vibe that will program you if you stay there long enough. So, you wanna be conscious of that programming and consciously choose/change your environment (where you live).

Start a blog.

You could take experience to be the Actual too. This is why Metaphysics breaks down regarding attempts to capture Being like a butterfly in a net. What is that which takes? Is it not the Mind?

You need a strategy to move yourself up the Emotional Scale -- this is part of what we might call Emotional Mastery Work. Look at where revenge is on the scale. Don't feel bad if you're not good at Emotional Mastery work. We can put together systems and strategies to get much better at this skill than we are. This is mastering the skill of "Forcing Your Mood". Leo talks about this in his Blueprint* (see link below). *Leo's Blueprint https://www.actualized.org/blueprint

How about fragmentation AND no fragmentation? You like paradox? Most people don't yet like paradox. Most people are stuck in the Paradigm of Belief. Paradox keeps the Mind from locking and blocking you within beliefs by keeping your Mind open and in its place. Paradoxes are not beliefs, they're tools to keep the Mind from assuming its beliefs are Being. The Tao that can be Named is Not the Eternal Tao.

Doesn't it make strategic sense for you to worry about removing your own ignorance before trying to remove other people's ignorance? Why impose yourself in that way on other people's lives if you're busily designing and building your own life? This is like not driving your own car well yet worrying about correcting the driving of all the drivers on the road. If you're standing around worrying about what other people are doing, you're not busy enough with your own work.

Wake up from what?