Joseph Maynor

I can't really recommend because I don't want someone suing me saying I encouraged them to take something that maybe harmed them. You don't know what people's medical histories are like. All I'm posting is what I'm taking and I assume each person is doing their own research into these substances before taking any of them, just as I did before I started taking them. Not trying to be a dick here, I just can't go to the point of recommending anything to people. I can just post what I take. The problem with listing supplements is people just take your word on it and don't do their own research. So, what I want to say here is this is what I take. If you take any of these, you do it at your own risk. Just because it passed my research meter doesn't mean it passes yours. And maybe my research meter is wrong too, you can't assume I'm right.

No. I like the white belt concept though.

What you need to become enlightened are A strong love for truth that is usually already there Willingness to learn about Enlightenment Willingness to work hard on Enlightenment

What I find is if you grow to love eating a lot of veggies and cut out all junk food that will handle a lot of your health ailments. Raw and steamed veggies are like tonics that cleanse and energize your body. Eat some meat, beans, and supplement with a little protein powder. I’m the king of veggies though. A lot of the supplements I used to take I no longer take because I just go for the fresh fruits and veggies. Mostly veggies, I’m not big into fruit. Lentils are good for vegetarians too because they have iron and stuff that vegetarians usually don’t get as easily a meat eaters. I eat a little meat, but I don’t usually eat big portions of meat. Veggies are like nature’s medicines gotten straight from the source. My body just sings after I eat a big salad or a big plate of steamed veggies. I can feel it.

I’ll tell you what, whether this is true or not, it’s well worth a read by anybody on the path. It’s well-written and detailed. You gotta see what you resonate with and don’t resonate with — don’t just buy anything like this whole hog. This is like fillet mignon for contemplation work. I might do a point by point written analysis of this just for my own growth. Very nice post.

Assertiveness, but without being cocky about it Physical strength and calm that comes from working out hard everyday at cardio and strength training Being task-oriented and being able to execute and get things done Being on point with your time instead of at sea; you're always going somewhere with your time Having an organized and put together life that allows you to perform excellently on your small picture and big picture life purpose goals Being focused on making money and saving money (a man is a provider to himself and to others) Being no bullshit with people (or you might say "on the level" with people); a man says what he means and means what he says

I know what you’re talking about. Things change and eventually get better. When one door closes another door opens. Someone told me recently a very powerful thing about death that kinda applies. When someone close to you dies, you go through a stage of grieving and crying — but five years later, instead of crying when you think about that person, you might be smiling. You smile at their memory. But of course that can’t happen until that storm has passed. But the key is not to judge yourself for going through what you’re going through. Pain is a part a reality, a part of life. To try to avoid pain in life is like trying to force your own preferences on Mother Nature. And that just sets you up to get mindfucked and all distressed when the downs of life happen. Life has ups and downs, it’s so true. Reality contains ups and downs. It’s not fun to go through the downs, but it’s part of what’s here. You wanna allow the downs to exist in life. Give the downs permission to exist in your reality. I think sometimes we guilt ourselves because we think we should have done something to avoid the downs in our lives. But you can’t avoid all the downs, so don’t beat yourself up. The downs are gonna happen and the best thing to do is just to let them exist and let them pass. A sunny day follows a gloomy day eventually. I have downs in my life too. I just had one recently. And I just watched it happen and didn’t cling to it one way or the other. Reality is always cycling between things that I like and things that I don’t like. The best thing I can do is not make it mean anything about me. Probably the biggest down in life is watching your own dying or somebody else dying that you care about. But if you take the perspective that it’s not personal, and it’s just the way things are, that puts a totally different context around it. If reality contains death, then the idea that death is bad is mere Thought about reality. It’s a preference of reality being expressed through Thought. Death is as natural and as normal as birth. But we spin birth to be positive and death negative, but they’re both equally here in reality. Death could very well be thought to be a positive and birth a negative. That too would be a Thought about reality. But reality just is what it is, it doesn’t depend on our preferences or Thoughts about it.

I got off the caffeine and it’s been a real success for me. I used to ingest caffeine life a fiend. I like the Macha Green tea that Leo uses in his smoothie video. That’s good stuff. I bought some of that and use it.

Nice work. What you work on is what you improve in life.

Wow, this is an interesting question. Judgments are more statements about the truth of the matter than analysis is. A judgment is me saying -- this statement is conceptually true, it's reasonable to accept. Analysis is usually in the reasoning that supports a judgment. Analysis is the dance that's done to try to support the conclusory statement or judgment. Analysis goes into the support for your judgments. A judgment is saying this is the way things are, or this is good or bad, etc. A judgment is some kind of conclusion, whether that's stated as just a personal preference or the truth of the matter. I like Rolling Rock beer is a judgment but I'm not making a statement about the truth of the matter, I'm just stating my preference. But most judgments are stated like they're matters of fact about reality. You can see that. People always do this. People are always saying, "This is how things are . . . ." But they don't realize that they're just trapping themselves in their own limiting-beliefs.

The thoughts that come up are crazy. I always get this one after almost every thought. "What do I think about that?" So, I'll have some thought, and then I'll get that neurotic nagging second thought -- "what do I think about that?" It just pops up. And it can lure me into losing myself in thought. Now I notice it and I don't comply with it. I realize it's the Devil. The Devil is the lure into Maya, the lure into the illusion of Thought in this instance. The Devil is constantly trying to lure me into Thought. But see, I notice it now, and I can put the fire out when it's small just by not complying. But see, to not comply you have to notice it and notice that it's a lure into birds in the bush a.k.a. forgetting about the present bird in hand and getting lost in all kinds of basically daydreams.

You have to get to the point where you can see and catch your own bullshit. Now, be careful with this statement because it sounds pithy and you might agree with it. But this is not a belief or a statement, this is a practice. You have to get to the point where you can actually see and actually catch your own bullshit. And you can do this more and more the higher consciousness you become.

I found Physics to be incredibly fascinating when I was studying it. I was into Mathematical Physics. I was also heavily into Mathematics too. I also find Astronomy to be incredibly fascinating. Not so much now, but when I was in my 20's it was. My real passion was Mathematics though. I flirted with double-majoring in Mathematics and Philosophy -- but I ended up just doing the Philosophy. But I think if I could have done a three-way major in college it would have been Physics, Mathematics, and Philosophy. I'm 40 now. If I were going to college today I would probably do a three-way major of Music, Computer Science, and Law School. So, your question is how to make science interesting. I don't know how to answer this because I was always interested in science. I was much more interested in science in school than I was all the other subjects. So, I never had to force myself too hard to be interested in science. Now, there are some sciences I was more interested in than others. I went through a phase where I was very interested in psychology for example. Once I discovered philosophy though, science started to take a back-seat for me.

There's some truth to this, although I don't want to agree or disagree with too much of what you said. Personal Development has three major elements to it and the best teachers are keen at all three: Life Purpose Work: Small Picture and Big Picture Conceptual Understanding Work Enlightenment Work

All the blueprint videos are on YouTube.

Does reality have facets? Is that actual or a thought-story? What would it mean and require for reality to actually have facets? How would that be confirmed by seeing? This concept that reality has facets makes no sense to me. Reality just is what it is, there's nothing hidden there. You're not watching three movies at once, you're watching one movie at a time. Or one movie after another in succession. Think about your actual experience -- are there facets to that? How does that even make sense? What would we have to do to make that make sense?

I'm pretty sure it's one of the 2014 - 2015 videos

Give me a few more details that you can remember. I've watched all Leo's videos several times.

Good question. Because what's actual is not a paradigm. That's the kicker. What is actually there in Experience and Thought is not a paradigm. Paradigms are thought-stories. There's an actual aspect to paradigms to the extent that bits of Thought are actual in Experience. But what Thoughts say is a paradigm. The voice of thoughts, the mouth of thoughts is a paradigm. That's where you start getting meaning and language involved. But being aware of what's actual in Experience in the moment has nothing to do with thought-stories. In fact there may not even be a Thought in your Awareness. For example, when you look at "your hand" there may not even be a single thought-story in your Awareness. Green and Turquoise cling too hard to this idea that everything is a paradigm -- which is simply a thought-story being laid on top of what's actual. Plus it's a limiting belief too. You're never gonna find what's actual if you're clinging to the Thought that "everything is a paradigm". You're not going to even consider as a possibility the fact that what's actual is not a paradigm. I see so many people on the Path being trapped by this limiting belief that Thought is somehow at the essence of everything and more or less touches everything. No it doesn't. And you can experience this for yourself if you become very literal minded and pay attention to what's actual versus what's augmented by Thought in the moment.

You very much can know if you're deceiving yourself or if you're locked in a paradigm. I've been preaching about this for months now. In fact you saying you can never know — that is you clinging to a Thought. Seeing through the illusion of Maya just is you seeing exactly how you're deceiving yourself. Be careful with clinging to "you can never know this or that" statements. Those statements are Thoughts.

Set a limit like you can only look at your phone for 5 mins max every hour. And keep a log of your time as well every hour. Try to get everything done you need to get done in that 5 minute window every hour. Now, if you take a call that doesn't count. But just you surfing the phone, that's 5 minutes max every hour. But you gotta keep a log or something to make yourself accountable to that.

What's the one way that you can uniquely give back to the world which is a way that you would feel proud to give back to the world? I would recommend Leo's Life Purpose to dig this out because it's not always obvious. Big Picture Life Purpose Work really requires doing Leo's Life Purpose Course as a prerequisite, having done the course myself. But you can start thinking: What am I already doing and passionate about where I feel like I could give something back to the world and make that my career over time?

Your own life is a mindfuck movie. Not you specifically, but all of our lives. Experience is a poorly-edited mindfuck movie. You don’t need to watch any movies, just start to see your life as a movie. You don’t really need anything other than self-observation.

Totally. Taking cold showers basically increases your pain threshold so you're calmer all around and can weather conflict whether physical or emotional much more. Also, you'll become more assertive too because you'll be less fearful of painful repercussions from being honest and truthful. Combine cold showers with daily cardio and daily resistance training. I do pushups and situps and stair-climbing every day. I also ride my exercise bike for 30 minutes every day. And of course I meditate every day. You'll be calm, strong, and assertive if you do that. You'll feel powerful. You won't be as averse to being ripped out of your comfort-zone. It's people that feel weak that will do everything they can to stay in their comfort-zone. And you don't have to do it for very long, just work up to 20 seconds at the end of your shower. At first you won't even be able to do 4 seconds. Oh yeah, count like this: One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Three Mississippi. Also, what I do is before I turn the water to cold, I first turn it up to as hot as I can stand it, then I turn it to cold. Spin around under the shower head too so the water goes over your head back and shoulders evenly. So, you spin your body around while you're counting under the cold water. I do this for 20 seconds which is a long time under a cold tap. But it works. That's what I like about it, there's results. Tony Robbins talks about how he has an ice bath that he full body submerges in every day. Same concept. I even heard him say that when he doesn't have access to his ice bath due to travel, he'll jump into ice cold water like a lake or something and swim around for a while.