Joseph Maynor

Thank you. Someone had to say this finally.

The Super Bowl is really an event or happening that gives a reason to come together. It's an event where we may (or not) rally around. You might laugh at this, but it's true. It's funny because this is not a bug, it's a feature. We want to laugh. Who doesn't? We want to engage thru laughter. That's Love, in part. Relation thru amusement.

Zen, I think, may have a leg outside of psychedelics, but you'll have to figure that out on your path. Pointers might be contextualized more so than is usually said. It depends on where you are on the/your path.

I love this. This is next level for most people. Beautiful.

I see it more the opposite -- sometimes rhythm is melody stopping in its extreme. Take a drum circle for example: That's just begging for melody and form. But every melody seems to contain a bit of rhythm. Even row row row your boat has some rhythm in it, even though it's primarily melody.

Examine this starting point.

If you want to experience real pushback, start teaching spiritual enlightenment seriously and directly. This is worse than teaching philosophy in terms of being a glutton for punishment. And it will be all the spiritual teachers who will attack you, and people will call you a cult leader.

Actually it's the opposite. Pigeons come where there is abundance. If you're not a pigeon you're probably already living in an area with abundance. You're the inverse of a pigeon.

Some people need more routine after they have dropped it too, ironically.

As a philosopher you're going to offend people who are doing philosophy but don't realize it -- and who might even say they hate philosophy. These are people who want to have it both ways, which is to be expected. Yes philosophy is an attempt to zero in or probe somebody, but this is not always welcomed.

You can actually abstract this conclusion to cover almost any human activity actually. I'm not a huge fan of sports, but I will say this in its defense -- most people don't understand the intricacies that are going on and the strategies that are going on in a football game. It's deeper than it looks on the surface.

Distract yourselves with humor ad infinitum maybe?

What inspires me about Plato is essentially he's an artist. He's a dramatist. The philosophy is presented thru drama. What he shows is kinda the opposite of Descartes who thought philosophy could be done in an armchair or Aristotle who thought philosophy is an abstraction from voluminous facts. Plato realized philosophy is a kind of performance art. People miss this when they focus on the arguments in his work. It's more like a dramatist exposing a philosophical set of plays than an analyst trying to make a point.

This is where I think self-help spreads a false message. You can't fake abundance. Abundance means a strength in something. To have a strength you have to be willing to work hard in a specific area.

Yes. Basically, I have a component of Absolute Beauty in my spirituality that appears to be very rare.

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The same thing can be said for thoughts and intellect. It's interesting how there is really a middle way between thought and feeling that is best.

1. Ego is widely misunderstood in Spirituality 2. Self-help and Spirituality are not mutually exclusive 3. The intellect can't be sidelined in Spirituality consistently 4. Feeling can't be sidelined in Spirituality consistently 5. Intuition is more important than most people seem to know 6. The there is no you thing gets old and starts to be used defensively 7. The there is no separate self thing gets old and starts to be used defensively 8. Morality matters to Spirituality

This is great. I would say that moral indignation causes anger which is similar to your #6 which causes deception. I kinda disagree with 1 and 2 to certain extent. 4 a little bit. 5 a little bit. 7 and 8 a little bit. But this is just me. I like 6 though. We agree with #3.

Of course. I have no dog in this fight though since the Niners are out.

This isn't going to be popular, but honor your feelings and reactions more. We want to bury how we feel instead of realizing we're underdeveloped with regard to honoring our feeling.

Yes. Writing more specifically here.