Joseph Maynor

I've been switching over to a more vegetarian lifestyle. I do eat chicken breast, fish, eggs, and other stuff in small moderation. I eat some pork. Right now because I'm working out everyday, I'm a little skittish about just relying on my whey protein, pea protein, etc. So, I gotta get that figured out. But I'm eating a lot of veggies now. I don't really eat much fruit at all. Beans, veggies, white meat, eggs, a little bit of rice. That's kinda where I'm at. But I'll tell you this -- my diet today is 500 times better than my diet was a year ago, two years ago, etc. Get yourself a steamer to do your veggies. Get yourself some good olive oil (Iiada is a good brand from Greece) and some balsamic vinegar, etc. You gotta learn how to make veggies taste awesome. So, I've been learning how to cook, etc. You kinda gotta learn how to cook yourself to make veggies taste awesome. I can make a plate of veggies taste better than a steak dinner. It's all in your knowledge of cooking, spices, herbs, oils, vinegars, flavor combinations, etc. -- Cooking is an art too, you'll get into it -- your intuition can shine in cooking just like in music, painting, programming, etc. -- You can be the Steve Jobs of cooking veggies -- you can! -- Just work on your cooking a little bit every day -- explore all the different ingredients and cooking methods.

A year off from responsibilities so they can do the work without interference.

Have you done Leo’s Life Purpose Course? In my opinion he does a great job on touching on what you need to create and develop a powerful Life Purpose. I would just do the Course asap. Don’t over-think it. You’re creating all these excuses.

No. You should start working on Life Purpose right now. You don't wanna find some excuse to put it off.

Wow. That’s pretty cool. You got yourself a nice model to try and fit into the systems of your life.

No problem. I'm not against theory, I'm against interpreting theory in unsustainable ways.

What's a sub personality issue?

Start a project.

The Ego wants to define itself and its Conceptual Understanding at the top of the hierarchy of Egos. That’s one of the dangers of Spiral Dynamics I’ve noticed. I get to define Turquoise in my self-image and now all y’all are by definition under me. Sounds too good to be true! That’s a real risk. I appreciate that risk. The Ego is sneaky like that.

Please elaborate on your last sentence.

Even more important than goal is intuition. Goal is still too conceptual. You’re gonna get yourself in the weeds with goals alone.

That’s right.

I see your point. It’s a good one. But how do you grow without models? Isn’t education based on the principle that models are useful to our growth?

It’s a useful framework for personal development.

After a while you don't have to try to be mindful, you just do it automatically. Noobs have to try though.

Thanks for posting this. There isn't enough stuff on YouTube on real Indian Philosophy, just the frou-frou stuff.

Next to finding Existential Truth and embodying Existential Truth, Mindfulness is the third most important thing to Enlightenment.

I'm so happy for you. You sound like you're growing. Watch this one too:

‘Know thyself’ is tricky because that leads to a lot of tail-chasing. What you wanna do is embody BE-ing. Find BE-ing, and then spend the rest of your life embodying and integrating with it. Don’t try to conceptually know BE-ing. Embody BE-ing instead. Clinging to conceptual truth about reality only holds you back from embodying and integrating with Existential Truth. If you’re clinging to a bunch of limiting-beliefs, you ain’t gonna let the Universe act and speak through you. You won’t be open enough to let that happen.

Don’t turn it into an ideology. Follow your bliss doesn’t mean you ideologically cling to that. It just means that you slowly accept your authentic self and authentic life.

Nice. That's how a lot of people choose to introduce Philosophy. It's a classic entry point. Philosophy is like a pool where there is no real shallow end. You just have to jump in and figure it out. It's like coding in that sense. Somebody has to throw you into the pool and you have to learn how to swim on your own. And you just keep absorbing more and more by cracking on it day after day and sooner or later you're building Web Apps or creating and discovering your own original Philosophical views.

Maturity is growth. We can model that as ascending the Spiral. Or you can make up your own model. That's a good idea when you have the best model. And the best model comes from synergizing thousands of Perspectives. That's why Shore of Reference is so important. That's why Course of Study is so important. Where I am today at 40 is not where I was at 30 or 20. But you can grow faster than I did because you have access to information I didn't. You don't have to be old to be wise. Prove that to us.

Looks like a great document. Thanks! I'll use it.

If Yellow is a pile of systems, Turquoise becomes the system. Turquoise doesn’t get hung up on systems for or against, and just lets the universe be and act through them. That doesn’t mean that Turquoise doesn’t try to change systems, they do. But Turquoise isn’t trying to design systems for everything — they just pragmatically do systems thinking when the need arises by letting the Universe flow through them. Turquoise is way more intuitive than Yellow is. Yellow is much more conceptual and in their head than Turquoise is. If Turquoise shares systems, they’re likely to be sharing their own actually embodied systems. But remember, Turquoise can access all the lower Spiral Stages to maintain the flexibility needed to advance their Life Purpose. But this is done intuitively and naturally in Turquoise.

No. The Paradigm of Morality is a more or less useful conceptual system, just cling to it loosely and don’t interpret it as conceptual truth. That’s how Yellow thinks. Yellow likes to think in paradoxes. Yellow would like the paradoxical statement: there is no morality but then there is morality too.