Joseph Maynor

Watch this in its entirety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume Read this! It's fascinating. 'Hume on Reason' http://www.humesociety.org/hs/issues/v5n1/winters/winters-v5n1.pdf

Allow me to preach to the choir SOUL: Detachment from belief allows freedom. It allows authenticity. You do beliefs, don't let beliefs do you. Instead of letting beliefs imprison you, you wear the pants in the relationship with beliefs. Beliefs have the power and certainty that you give them, and no more.

Find your life purpose, become enlightened, and get out of your own way. That's the key to success. I'm not kidding!

Any statement of the form 'Life is X', where X is a conceptualization, is false. This is an important principle to get. Some people seem not to grok this yet. Unless it's 'I am hungry', where you might be pointing out an actual feeling of hunger, so this statement wouldn't be false. It's pointing to something real, namely the feeling of hunger. As a pointer to the feeling it isn't false. But if you took it literally -- I am hungry -- that is false. So, pointers are not the same as beliefs. It's the identity beliefs that are false, and those are what we should be worried about.

Love is the result of removal of ignorance.

Damn this is wise!

You don't do anything -- because you don't exist. All beliefs about you doing something are false. Imagine you are a Sun that is covered up with a bunch of garbage. Enlightenment is not about the Sun leveling up to improve itself. Enlightenment is about removing all the garbage off your Sun, so that you can shine as you are, not as you fantasize you will become. And all that garbage is beliefs that are foolishly, but understandably attached to. See? You need to get out of your own way paradoxically. Stop thinking you are controlling anything.

@Shanmugam The problem with these kinds of moves is that you are doing exactly what you are saying not to do -- judging others and trying to control others -- and trying to control reality. Why do you assume that reality should proceed according to your values? See? I had a discussion with homeboy the other day about this exact same issue. It's a trap. You don't get to control reality, accept that. I know you want to though. Let other people decide for themselves. Why should you get to make the rules -- your own Egoic desire enforced on the community?

Ok folks. This is long and rambly -- so you don't want to listen to all of it. Just listen to these two passages: 1. Hinduism and Buddhism: 00'10'25' to 1'45'50'. 2. The Six Orthodox Indian Philosophy Schools: 5'26'20' to 6'19'25'. 3. The Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita, the Ramayana: 6'33'55' to 6'57'32' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advaita_vedanta

Oh yeah. People can become enlightened here if they do the work. Lots of different perspectives here, people willing to help, etc. Spoon-feeding haha.

Why believe there's a rabbit-hole to go down? Are you guys trying to burn out the Mind? You don't need to do that. You don't need to try to kill the mind or kill the Ego. That won't work and it only causes pointless suffering and no real progress. You're just confusing yourselves. And you're basking in that confusion, not realizing that that's a manufactured state, and not reality. "Reality is simple, clear, and unitary. There's nothing mysterious about it. Enlightenment is the most simple perception" -- Adyashanti Video on point to watch:

Haha. I'll give it a crack. That's funny though. I disrupted my stillness to answer this.

Me too. The only two famous ones that resonate with me so far are Adyashanti and Ekhardt Tolle. All the others that I've explored don't quite rise to that level.

Do both. Both are powerful. You want to have results from both to work with.

Ok boys. Time to collect yourselves. You don't want to parade your ignorance.

Maybe Leo's best non-Enlightenment Video:

Emerald did a great video addressing this issue:

Here's another video to watch. This video had a profound impact on my thinking about how to regard beliefs in this work.

Watch this video:

It means that conceptual-truth is not existential-truth. The map is not the territory. The meal is not the menu. It is a belief. You're right. It's counter-weight theory. I can cling to it loosely. I prefer to do this, however: suspend belief.

ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE DO NOT LACK EGO -- THIS IS A REALLY RAMPANT MYTH Enlightened people do not lack ego. That's a deep myth. So many of us do not yet grok this. Enlightened people are subject to the same egoic taunts, they just don't attach to them as much. They're more conscious of them, whereas a lot of people are not even aware of the Ego. Enlightened people have discovered a space between themselves and thoughts: a space that can be widened through work and meditation. The ego might be illusory if it's not attached to. In other words, you may perceive ego that's not in fact there. If my behavior is categorizable by you as egoic, and I'm not attaching to egoic thoughts -- then I'm not acting egoically since I'm not attaching to what's happening. It's just what's happening. This is kind of a puzzling issue. In other words -- someone may act egoically and yet be detached from ego.

Leo explains it so well.

"The leader is the proxy-visionary for those who lack vision" -- Leo Gura

This is a really good technique. I'll share how I incorporate these ideas in my Journal when I am ready. I'm still experimenting with it.