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    ON ENLIGHTENMENT

    Enlightenment/ Enlightenment work isn't what you think it is.  That's the reason why it's so confusing to teach and to learn.  And that's why you have to keep banging your head against the wall until one day -- ah snap, you'll get it -- all of it -- not intellectually, you'll have an epiphany.  And at that time the search will be over.  The work won't be done, but the search will be over.  And after that time you may call yourself Enlightened if you wish.  You’ll realize the ridiculousness of all teachings after that point, so why not.  As long as you don’t attach strongly to that, it’s fine.

    Enlightenment is the loosening of conceptual beliefs -- all conceptual beliefs.  Beliefs will still arise as part of what's here in the moment, but that doesn't mean that you need to identify with them.  And with that, conceptual beliefs become much less important.  One of the tricks of the Mind is to reinforce the belief that conceptual belief is SO IMPORTANT.  It's like -- crawl into this Matrix, it's so real!  That conniving little Mind.  But once you see through this fully, you'll have an epiphany that is impossible to reverse.  And it's got nothing to do with psychedelics.  You can't unexplode a grenade.  That's what the shift is like.  I just had it yesterday.  It's one of those oh!  Damn!  That's what it is.  It's a shift that happens to you, an epiphany.  It's not a conceptual understanding, but a shift in perspective to use a word.  It's not a paradigm-shift, as that involves shifting beliefs.  This shift is not a shift in beliefs.  It's like an anti-paradigm shift, to use a phrase.  And you can't force it, it just happens when it happens.  It takes a lot of work to convince the Mind that beliefs are not the truth.  So, you do need to do a lot of work in Enlightenment.  Whatever it takes to get the big crack for you.  

    Beliefs are not good or bad.  They are simply here in awareness.  The issue is how beliefs are attached to -- how the Mind is trying to connect that belief to you and to reality.  That mental relation is the problem.  You can still have beliefs.  Don't repress your beliefs.  Just don't make them YOUR beliefs.  This is hard to communicate in language.  You gotta see what I’m pointing to.

    You're still clinging WAY too much and too hard to belief.  That's what you got to fix.  You're attaching to all those concepts that the Voice is raising.  That's what you're gonna stop doing when you get the big crack.

    Enlightenment theory is counter-weight theory.  You're not supposed to believe the counter-weight theory.  It's there to loosen up all your beliefs so that the Mind can finally come to see that no beliefs touch Truth.  You wanna have the shift that comes from that.  And only the Mind can make that shift, you can't consciously make it.  

  8. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    ON ENLIGHTENMENT (something I wrote):

    Enlightenment/ Enlightenment work isn't what you think it is.  That's the reason why it's so confusing to teach and to learn.  And that's why you have to keep banging your head against the wall until one day -- ah snap, you'll get it -- all of it -- not intellectually, you'll have an epiphany.  And at that time the search will be over.  The work won't be done, but the search will be over.  And after that time you may call yourself Enlightened if you wish.  You’ll realize the ridiculousness of all teachings after that point, so why not.  As long as you don’t attach strongly to that, it’s fine.

    Enlightenment is the loosening of conceptual beliefs -- all conceptual beliefs.  Beliefs will still arise as part of what's here in the moment, but that doesn't mean that you need to identify with them.  And with that, conceptual beliefs become much less important.  One of the tricks of the Mind is to reinforce the belief that conceptual belief is SO IMPORTANT.  It's like -- crawl into this Matrix, it's so real!  That conniving little Mind.  But once you see through this fully, you'll have an epiphany that is impossible to reverse.  And it's got nothing to do with psychedelics.  You can't unexplode a grenade.  That's what the shift is like.  I just had it yesterday.  It's one of those oh!  Damn!  That's what it is.  It's a shift that happens to you, an epiphany.  It's not a conceptual understanding, but a shift in perspective to use a word.  It's not a paradigm-shift, as that involves shifting beliefs.  This shift is not a shift in beliefs.  It's like an anti-paradigm shift, to use a phrase.  And you can't force it, it just happens when it happens.  It takes a lot of work to convince the Mind that beliefs are not the truth.  So, you do need to do a lot of work in Enlightenment.  Whatever it takes to get the big crack for you.  

    Beliefs are not good or bad.  They are simply here in awareness.  The issue is how beliefs are attached to -- how the Mind is trying to connect that belief to you and to reality.  That mental relation is the problem.  You can still have beliefs.  Don't repress your beliefs.  Just don't make them YOUR beliefs.  This is hard to communicate in language.  You gotta see what I’m pointing to.

    You're still clinging WAY too much and too hard to belief.  That's what you got to fix.  You're attaching to all those concepts that the Voice is raising.  That's what you're gonna stop doing when you get the big crack.

    Enlightenment theory is counter-weight theory.  You're not supposed to believe the counter-weight theory.  It's there to loosen up all your beliefs so that the Mind can finally come to see that no beliefs touch Truth.  You wanna have the shift that comes from that.  And only the Mind can make that shift, you can't consciously make it.  

  9. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    2 hours ago, Nahm said:

    @SOUL  we are where we are. It is so perfect it could be no other way.  I think we’re all scrutinizing too much and tripping over saying the same thing different ways. Love you guys!  if we know, we know. If we don’t know,  question it till death. There’s no other way there either. 

    Correct.  Beliefs are not good or bad.  They are simply here in awareness.  The issue is how beliefs are attached to -- how the Mind is trying to connect that belief to you and to reality.  That mental relation is the problem.  You can still have beliefs.  Don't repress your beliefs.  Just don't make them YOUR beliefs.  This is hard to communicate in language.  You gotta see what I'm pointing to.  I know you do too Nahm!  So, this is just preaching to the choir.

  10. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    2 hours ago, SOUL said:

    Although to call what exists as it is a theoretical is a personal belief and not accepting what is as it is.

    This is what happens within the dogmatic belief paradigm that often permeates 'enlightenment' ideology when the physical manifest reality is denied to exist to then invest in beliefs derived only from their personal experience proclaiming it to be Absolute Truth for everyone.

    Anyone can create any number or variety of ideas and concepts but regardless of how many people share them they are beliefs, not necessarily what is.

    Ouch... that hurt.

     

    Beliefs are fun aren't they?  They're tools to be picked up and put down in the moment.  The problem is people don't know how to put them down.  They wanna carry them everywhere.  All of them!  The mechanic doesn't carry all of his tools around everywhere.  He selects the appropriate tool for the moment, and then puts it back in the toolbox after he uses it.  

  12. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    20 minutes ago, Nahm said:

    @Joseph Maynor Also, though, in truth, there is no present, nor a moment. That’s a trap too....because enlightenment isn’t theoretical, the map is theory.  You may throw things at me now, I deserve it. If your aim is good, you’ll hit yourself though. ?

    I agree.  Enlightenment is the loosening of conceptual beliefs.  Even those ones -- all conceptual beliefs.  Beliefs will still arise as part of what's here in the moment, but that doesn't mean that you need to identify with them.  And with that, conceptual beliefs become much less important.  One of the tricks of the Mind is to reinforce the belief that conceptual belief is SO IMPORTANT.  It's like -- crawl into this Matrix, it's so real!  That conniving little Mind.  But once you see through this fully, you'll have an epiphany that is impossible to reverse.  And it's got nothing to do with psychedelics.  You can't unexplode a grenade.  That's what the shift is like.  I just had it yesterday.  It's one of those oh!  Damn!  That's what it is.  It's a shift that happens to you, an epiphany.  It's not a conceptual understanding, but a shift in perspective to use a word.  It's not a paradigm-shift, as that involves shifting beliefs.  This shift is not a shift in beliefs.  It's like an anti-paradigm shift, to use a phrase.  And you can't force it, it just happens when it happens.  

  13. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    The only worry I have about this Leo is that you see to be confirming the Enlightenment theory.  Especially in the beginning when you're throwing around all the labels.  Ah this is this and this is that!  That's a trap.  You don't want to cling to the Enlightenment theory as truth.  Truth is only what's in the present moment.  It doesn't need to be categorized using the Enlightenment theory.  The purpose of Enlightenment theory is to loosen your beliefs.  You are not looking to confirm the Enlightenment theory.  That's a trap.  Enlightenment is an epiphany you'll have when you're dead sober.  It's a big shift.  And it's not an intellectual thing either.  

    You're still clinging WAY too much and too hard to belief.  That's what you got to fix.  This is so obvious to me as I watch this video.  You're attaching to all those concepts that the Voice is raising.  That's what you're gonna stop doing when you get the big crack.

    Video being referred to:

     

  15. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    You need just enough theory to be able to blast off.  Everyone is gonna need something to do this eventually.  I spent a year on theory.  You need to come to the conclusion that Enlightenment is about liberating you from the Mind, not chaining you to it.  But you can only come to that when it is time for you.  It's an insight, an epiphany you will have.  You can't rush a plant to grow by pulling on it.

  16. Posted

    AN INSIGHT ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT -- LOOSEN THAT GRIP ON BELIEFS ABOUT REALITY

    The point of Enlightenment is to get you to detach from conceptual beliefs about reality, including the attachments of the Ego.  You can use beliefs in the moment as needed, but err on the side of avoiding thinking that truth is to be found via belief.  Ground yourself in Existential Truth, surrender to reality fully, and be what is fully, without clinging to any beliefs.  You want to live with an empty cup of beliefs not a full cup of beliefs.  Do not let the Mind fool you that conceptual truth is Existential Truth.

    Being emotionally affected by conceptual contradiction implies the Rationalist Paradigm is being accepted implicitly.  The conclusion is not that I conceptually know -- it's that I conceptually don't know!  Just be in the Now and stop trying to conceptually know.  Conceptual Truth is not the filet-mignon of Truth as the Mind thinks it is -- it's actually observation in the moment that is.  One of the worst traps of the Ego/Mind causes us to believe is that conceptual truth is Existential Truth.  This is our worst trap!

  17. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    I FOUND A DOGMA IN NON-DUALITY THEORY -- AND WHY THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM

    How Do You Square This Paradox With Truth?  You are both a limited perspective and everything that exists at the same time.

    I think it comes from the 'everything is one' thesis combined with the need to incorporate other beings into that oneness.  We are all made of the same emptiness but have unique perspectives.  Ok, but this is still belief though.  Nothing in my senses confirms this.  This is one of the dogmas of non-duality.  

    Nobody wants to admit that we have no way to know how to regard other minds through experience alone.  You can parrot 'everything is One' like a bird all you want, but that doesn't mean that you confirmed it through experience.  You can't!  Experience also doesn't confirm that Solipsism is true, because that's a conceptualization too.  'All is One' is a conceptualization not the Truth.  It's a mental-construct, a belief.

    Now, why this dogma in Non-Duality theory is ok.  The point of Non-duality theory is to put you in touch with Existential Truth.  Conceptual truth if mistakenly taken as Existential Truth is always going to self-contradict eventually, as it must.  Non-duality theory is no exception to this.  'All is One' is a counter-weight paradigm to be held against the paradigm that we are all separate and distinct individuals.  Neither one of these Paradigms can be proven by Truth, so they are both to be arms-lengthed and not clung to tightly.  That's the insight.  

    In Conclusion: Being emotionally affected by conceptual contradiction implies the Rationalist Paradigm is being accepted implicitly.  The conclusion is not that I conceptually know -- it's that I conceptually don't know!  Just be in the Now and stop trying to conceptually know.  Conceptual Truth is not the filet mignon of Truth as the Mind thinks it is -- it's actually observation in the moment that is.  One of the worst traps of the Ego/Mind causes us to believe is that conceptual truth is Existential Truth.  This is our worst trap!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_other_minds

    Another reading on point:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondualism

    Video on point to watch.

    PARAPHRASE OF CONTENT IN EMERALD'S VIDEO (BELOW):

    Potentially it could be just as true that Paradigm A and Paradigm B are true.  They are both equally beliefs.  The point is not to debunk basic fact based beliefs.  The point is not to get to another belief.  The point is to open yourself up and getting yourself to a state of receptivity and get you to realize how little you conceptually know about reality.  When you realize the illusory nature of beliefs you can put them down and get in touch with Existential Truth, the truth of the moment.

    Knowledge is not wisdom and wisdom is not knowledge.  Wisdom is always there, it doesn’t need to be acquired; however, wisdom can be blocked.  Only keen-awareness can reveal full wisdom in the moment.  Wisdom contains everything you need to know in the moment.  The Ego is the dam that restricts wisdom from entering the conscious mind.

  19. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    Trying to control reality is Egoic and an illusion of the Mind.  The Body is a conceptualization of what is part of the fabric of what is here, what exists in the moment.  Aliveness is a conceptualization.  At the end of the day -- you're not gonna find aliveness existing in reality beyond being a conceptualization.  So, aliveness is a label.  Labels are like leaves being blown around in the wind compared to reality.  So, don't let issues with labels change your beliefs or attitudes regarding what's actually here in the moment.  What's here is what's here -- you should just accept reality fully.  But just because you accept reality DOESN'T mean that you should identify with thoughts and emotions.  There is no you to identify, so that's an illusion of the Mind.  When you become aware of these identifications, your keen-awareness in the moment will then cause them to dissolve.  Find the Authentic-Self and just stay out of its way.

  21. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    There's an intellectual component to consciousness too.  There's experiential awareness and then there's cognitive awareness.  And actually both of these are happening simultaneously.  Being conscious means that you have a huge shore of reference, that you are studied as much as you are aware of the present moment experientially.  We don't talk about this much and nobody ever seems to explain this right.  They just want to focus on experiential awareness.  Well, a baby has experiential awareness, but that doesn't make the baby very aware, if that makes sense.  What the baby is missing is cognitive awareness.  You need both to be conscious -- experiential awareness and cognitive awareness.  And cognitive awareness uses concepts, thoughts, the Mind.  So, don't dump your intellectual life in this work so fast.