Joseph Maynor

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  1. What is it that understands?
  2. What is it that thinks that?
  3. What is it that thinks that?
  4. What is it that thinks that?
  5. What is it that clings to being being this or that?
  6. That could be a new Zen Koan. What is God? Big booty.
  7. It's weird, I have no need to put being into any concepts. It's just what's there when there is no Mind trying to label things. I could call it "blah" or anything and it would change it. In fact that would just be talk or the Mind imposing itself on it.
  8. Because being is more cognitively neutral and therefore more suitable for use as a pointer. The best thing to call it would be "pointer" actually. No conceptual content, just "pointer". It's that cognitive content of the concept that screws everything up in somebody who falls into that trap. But to use the word God is just asking for that to happen. It's like putting a delicious slice of pizza in front of someone trying to diet.
  9. As long as that's not clung to as a metaphysical belief, I can accept that, but I wouldn't want to label it as anything but being. God has too much meaning in it, so I think it's a word that seduces the conceptual mind to cling to all kinds of concepts, beliefs, and metaphysical notions that lead one astray from being, so I avoid the word "God".
  10. Ooh, your illusory conceptual Ego just got triggered.
  11. I've been religious in the past. I'm fully aware of the delusion of belief in God. I also went through the God Stage on the Enlightenment Path as well. Been there, done that.
  12. No, when I say mechanism I'm pointing using a concept.
  13. God is a concept. The Ego is not a concept, it's a mechanism. God doesn't exist. The Ego does. It's odd that you have these things backwards.
  14. The Ego is not a definition, it's a mechanism. If I put a gun to your head, your response to that will be a mechanism not a definition.
  15. The Ego is not really a concept, it's a mechanism. It's not a concept though because if it were, Ego would disappear when no thought is present. But that's not the case. Ego is a mechanism that you can transcend but can't completely remove.
  16. What is the nature of everything? I think I'll have a slice of delicious pizza. Zen.
  17. Getting stuck in metaphysics. Not fully transcending the Mind. Of course you also need to transcend the Ego and locate being as well. But that getting trapped in metaphysics thing is a huge trap that I see all the time.

  18. I miss Leo so bad

    Joseph Maynor replied to Good-boy's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    Let Leo detox from all this sh*t for a while.
  19. I think your practice is way too neurotic. I would just sit and do Do Nothing Meditation only for 30 days straight. 1 hour per day.
  20. I don’t think it quite works like that. You’re projecting a kind of mental schematic on reality and assuming that reality must work that way.
  21. Describe your meditation practice.
  22. I know, i’ve heard people that I think are credible talk about it and swear by it.
  23. No no no no no. I don't want to take anything away. I'm just putting forward a point of view for consideration. I'm in favor of all on-ramps onto the Path. I cherish all of them. But I've also become somewhat of an ornery teacher too always pushing people to question their sh*t.
  24. What if Kundalini is just a thought-story? Something for the Mind to cling to.
  25. Your inner infant is troubled.