Joseph Maynor

When you were a child did you need to know Truth to live?

Are Enlightened people supposed to believe they're right?

Enlightenment can be a big factor in terms of achieving emotional mastery. If I were trying to achieve emotional mastery, the first place I would look is to do enlightenment work.

Wow. This is such a great topic. I'm looking forward to reading the responses here.

Most recently this one in terms of my awakening regarding the Integral end of the Paradox Of The Sole-Survivor And The Integral.

I just used that as fodder for making a joke. I like you, don't worry. I'm not taking as much personal anymore. Even my shitty performance on my own schedule this week I'm not taking personally. Momentum is hard to build, all I can do is just keep plugging away. I know I can get to peak performance again because I was there before.

Lol. I'll take it!

If you listen you can still hear God's voice. The only thing that's changed is the window-dressing -- the doll house you made to understand God. The projections you made onto God have changed.

True dat.

I like this video too. It's dead on. Yang energy.

It's not just having ideas that makes Political Work an aspect of Personal/Interpersonal Development Work. It's getting great ideas implemented.

This is a Threshold Guardian on the Hero's Journey for you paradoxically. Don't quit. Be a man and dust yourself off friend. Get back up and just cool off for a while. Realize you're shooken up right now and you're gonna be looking for an outlet for that energy. What you need is for people to tell you how much they appreciate you on here. We should all give you 5 reasons that we appreciate you and you'll melt like an ice cream cone. You're smart You got great Dragon-energy to use one of Zzenn's terms You got good courage You've got a purpose that you're trying to actualize You got at least some knowledge of which you speak

Woah, you bet I'm gonna study this model.

Start living your life now by working on practically improving your life and improving the lives of other human beings. No more hiding away from life in philosophy -- it's time to go live this one life you have today. It's time to do and speak instead of just speak. Integrate Karma Yoga with your Jnana Yoga. Apply the Paradox of Action and Truth. Truth without action is a bore; and action without truth is a fool.

Like Coral and Blue had a baby.

I'm trying to understand. Stage Blue is not very high up the Spiral. It's just odd to me that Leo would be so Stage Blue after all this work and all this time. But I guess my curiosity has run its course here. See ya.

It depends on how you're clinging to it.

It's interesting that you cling so hard to being the righteous restorer. Righteousness is a such a characteristically Stage Blue trait.

Sure. If I must touch a concept of truth, that's the one I prefer when used in Enlightenment talk.

Truth is an abstraction.

The worst trap is to think that you're done on the path.

I hear some Stage Coral advancement for sure. Like Stage Coral and Stage Blue had a baby.

But what I'm saying Leo is that you do too and I don't think you see this in yourself. You have a very moralistic, judgmental, absolute truth-ish, almost puritanical energy. It's almost like you're teaching your own Shadow.

@Leo Gura I'm just curious about one thing Leo. Why are you so moralistic, absolute truth-ish, almost puritanical in your energy, yet you preach in words the importance of not clinging to 'shoulds'? How does that work out? You sound like a very Orthodox religious man. That's the energy that comes off. Very Stage Blue. Very absolute truth-ish. It's like Mohammad, everybody's job is to copy his words and deeds because he was right by God; he alone was the source of the Absolute Truth.

"Republican" is just a word and a concept that human beings are more or less resonant with. That's all it is. It's a linear label. Every person is a mix between Conserativism (Yang) and Progressivism (Yin). Apply the Paradox of Conservativism and Progressivism. In that case, you'll see that the word/concept "Republican" has pros and cons, and you can integrate the pros and leave behind the cons of the word/concept "Republican". Don't judge it, use it, see.