Joseph Maynor

People get too caught up in theory. It’s a huge trap. A bunch of Philosophers opining about Enlightenment.

Sometimes being blunt has its place. Let your Wisdom in the moment guide you.

After Awakening you will stop identifying with the Body, Mind, and the Ego. So, from the perspective of awareness, Meta perspective, or Atman — it is not persuasive that just because there are changes in form that that alters the formless. So, death is a hypothesis that cannot be confirmed by anyone here basically. It’s a problematic hypothesis too — wanting in proof that it cannot deliver on. Death is a belief, conceptual truth. And conceptual truth is always suspect — inherently so. So, the hypothesis that we die is suspect on that basis. The proof is just not there. It cannot be proved. So, death is a highly-problematic hypothesis that cannot be proved basically.

It’s a paradox: 1. Awakening has no levels. Reality never changed, so there is no change per say. But 2. Dismantling the Ego has levels. Bad habits, shit beliefs, idiotic Ego attachments, stupid fears and superstitions, backward culture, abusive childhood — all these take the rest of your life to root out and let go. So, detaching from Ego has levels even after Awakening. Awakening is just the beginning, the true start of the Enlightenment path. Now you gotta clean all that garbage out that you have gained the eyes to see. That’s the real path of Enlightenment. And that path ain’t dotted with epiphanies and cool states. It’s the mundane, the void, emptiness, stillness, detachment — all the non-sexy stuff that you don’t wanna do.

One of the things that I do is try to get to the pre-conceptual aspects of reality. So, I focus on the sounds and sights when I perceive language. Meaning is concept, and something I try to be very weary of. Be very empirical and very honest, and you will be on the right track. Spirituality is becoming aware that it’s the preconceptual aspects of reality that are the truth. Concept is laying on top of reality, like an oil film on top of water. It’s not really real but appears to be.

Sometimes being harsh is needed. Especially with people who already know but are stuck in their own BS. Watch this full video, it’s good:

My life purpose is to help myself and others increase self-acceptance and acceptance of reality by optimizing use of the Mind. This is the work I am naturally doing anyway — it might as well be my career too. Find what it is that you’re already naturally inclined to do and turn that into a career. You gotta have a job, so make it’s the best one you can. What is your natural work? That’s what Leo’s Course helps you find. And it’s an intense course, going though a lot of stuff to help you find and implement your life purpose. Best $250 I have ever spent by far.

How old are you? I can’t believe you would say this directly to a woman like that.

Look into Leo’s Life Purpose Course. That’s one way to do it. That’s been my path.

Bingo! Keep that in mind always. When I was a kid I was getting into trouble so my mom sent me to a Christian private school for 7th and 8th grades. She thought she was keeping me away from the “bad kids”. Then I realized that that’s what all the other moms thought too as the school was filled with almost all bad kids. So, people are often attracted to not what they are but what they want to be. So, just because someone is involved in spirituality does not mean that they are prima facie “spiritual” — it could mean quite the opposite in fact.

Self-acceptance was what drove me to Enlightenment. I realized that traditional Self Help was not working for me. Then I figured out that the work I needed to be doing is clearing all the garbage off my Sun so it could shine brightly and fully. And I’ve been doing that work for 4 years now. I started watching Leo’s videos in 2014. My Sun is getting its color back now, waiting to shine fully as part of what’s here. But there is work yet to be done. Mostly work dismantling attachments to Ego. Getting of the teet of those patterns. Stopping surrendering to them. Etc.

We have all these ideas about Enlightennent that turn into limiting beliefs and fears.

How do you know Jim Carey hasn’t also done the work?

What or who is a normie Leo? Why assume Enlightenment goes over the normie’s head? This sounds kinda elitist. Correct me if I’m wrong please.

That’s why I was reluctant about asking about a spiritual teacher on here. There are people who will say horrible things in that kind of setting. It’s as if a spiritual teacher is threatening their beliefs or Ego. Then the knives come out. And it’s so easy to project all kinds of things on a spiritual teacher. Especially one who hasn’t been blessed by the group. This is a community on here, with all the trappings of one, I’ve slowly come to realize.

Arrogant in what sense? All of us are arrogant in life: some of us just choose to not see it in ourselves. Reality has arrogance in it.

Most Important?

Self-acceptance Acceptance of reality

Find you life purpose and get to work on that. It’s when we are idle that we get offended. When you are focused and on a mission, you don’t have time to get offended. Don’t repress or suppress getting offended either. Just accept the thoughts and emotions fully and watch them. Don’t identify with them. Just become aware of how the self-image causes all thoughts and feelings of being offended. And we all have Ego — it’s just some of us have de-centered it more than others have. But that takes time to do, the rest of our lives are devoted to it.

1. How to be wordy. Try speaking into a recorder for 30 minutes on your topic. Explore. Get out of the writing and into the speaking. Don’t censor yourself. This called free-writing. Turn that judging Mind off and just let the words come out on their own. Let the right brain roam free. 2. Learn how to summarize and how to outline. This is where you gotta turn the left brain off and use the right brain. Summarizing is using general language to convey the essence or jist of what’s being said. Imagine I told you to summarize this question you asked into a single paragraph. That’s the art of summarizing. And it is an art, nobody knows how to do this naturally. I distinctly recall that I got great at it when I went to paralegal school and had to summarize legal cases. Outlining is arranging the key points and examples into a kind of structure that reveals connections between the ideas.

Don’t listen to anyone. You just watch what resonates with you. I like him myself. He’s smart. I watched an interview with him and he comes off as smart, wise, witty, creative, etc. Asking the forum what they think about someone is like throwing a live chicken to a pack of wolves. What you need to do is trust YOUR intuition. Personally, I think he’s a good dude, from what I can tell. Probably not for everyone on their particular and unique position on the path, but no teacher can be this. We fall in and out of resonance with different teachers on our paths, don’t we? That’s how it should be. We are growing. If you told me to listen to Adyashanti and Eckhart Tolle a year ago — their teachings would have gone right past me. Now they are speaking right to me. So, different teachers come in and out of resonance with you as you progress along the path. I am happy that you are exploring teachers. That’s a good thing to do. See who you resonate with.

Start to dismantle the self-image aka Ego.

They’re both ultimately distractions. What matters to enlightenment is stopping getting wrapped up in clinging to thoughts and resting in awareness in the present moment. Enlightenment is not a nerdy thing at all.

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I'm just having fun applying the teachings. Like a dog enjoying a chew toy. Ah yeah! You were enlightened a minute ago, now you're trying to control me haha. What happened? You're trying to control reality. Trying to get me to become consistent with your self-agenda. Funny how the Ego works like that huh? You're trying to force your values on me. That's Ego.