Joseph Maynor

Accept the negative thoughts fully so that they release. Trying to repress, suppress, or avoid them is just gonna prolong your suffering. Don't expect reality to be comfortable. Just observe the emotions and thoughts, accept them fully, let them in fully, and then watch them dissolve.

Very nice. Here's a good one -- believing that you are the undogmatic one. That's still an attachment, an Egoic identification. Or, I am the enlightened one. That's another identification, another conceptualization. I am the wise one. I am the good one. I am the tolerant one. That's a good one. I am the openminded one. Haha. I could go on. I am the humble one. I am the egoless one. I am the example of the right way to be, to live, to do x, y, or z. And I have the right values, opinions, and theories. I have the right advice, the right worldview, the right outlook on life. I am right, I know, I am compassionate, I am helpful, I care, I am concerned. All half-truths at best. I am significant, calm, poised. I am spiritual. I am an athiest. I am a good citizen. I am honest. Woah, that's a deceptive one. I give back. I am a great contributor. I am a guru, selflessly helping others. I have great advice to share with people. I am, I am, I am. I am. Me, me, me. I, I, I. I, me, mine. It's all about me. I am selfless. It's all about helping others. I am the pure one. I am the do-gooder. I am the saintly one. All traps.

Any book in particular to recommend?

Stay away from politics. There are better things to spend your time on, like your life purpose. You can't control jack sh*t about politics, so it is useless to worry about it. News and politics are two of the worst distractions.

I disagree with a lot of what he has said in the past, so I disagree with you. That's fine, we have a difference of opinion. I don't consider him to be wiser than me. If I did, I would have taken the advice differently. Appreciate my honesty, I know it comes off as blunt, but appreciate the fact that I am very open with how I feel and I'm very no BS. I'm not trying to argue with anyone or hurt anyone here, I'm just trying to be honest. Brutally honest, but honest nonetheless.

Haha. Kids on here.

What is something that you can tell me that I should learn from Byron Katie? I like her story, just gimme a nugget.

What is high-quality Science? Sounds like a value judgment. Don't get trapped up with these subject categories. Science is nothing more than a dream. It was designed to replace Aristotle, and it's hung around past its prime. We need to get past the notion of Science and realize it's a distraction. There is just knowledge. If you wanna label it Science, that's a secondary and often irrelevant classification. What matters is knowledge itself, and what we find useful about that, in its particulars. How we might classify knowledge beyond utility in a particular context is most likely mental-masturbation. Conceptual truth is the biggest trap in this work.

That guy on YouTube that looks like an older Leo really ripped off Leo's look.

Enlightenment is acceptance of reality and the giving up of the idea of a sense of control and the giving up the idea of a separate sense of self. It is also a preference for existential truth over conceptual truth.

I also notice that couples tend to resemble each other. Like they’ll both have a similar flaw, maybe a weird nose or mouth or something. That’s probably why they jive because they feel comfortable with each other because they both share the same or similar “flaw”. Kinda similar to the dog example. We’re Looking to accept ourself by loving ourself. So, we love others that appear like us so that we may learn to love and accept ourselves. This is why we are attracted to people that have our shadow traits. The shadow is driven to re-integrate and to be loved and accepted. This is the fuel for life, the fuel for our journeys — self-acceptance and acceptance of reality. This is what is causing the flow of life, the current of growth, the sense of needing to arrive someplace. We are driven to rid ourselves of inauthenticity. That’s really what growth is.

Just like people look like their dogs. You ever notice that?

Ok, say it that way. That doesn’t change reality. We don’t wanna get into the weeds of semantics too much here. It doesn’t matter. Consciousness is a conceptualization too. I don’t really like the word ‘consciousness’. It’s a little too much like trading one illusion for another. What is is awareness of reality in the present moment. What that points to.

The Self is a conceptualization, not reality. It’s like one of those illusion pictures where things appear not as they are. Where an image looks like it’s there but it’s only a projection of the Mind from more mundane phenomenon. That’s the self. Reality exists as it always has; what changes are the thoughts we cling to about reality. We loosen our beliefs. We don’t conceptually know what reality is. Practice not knowing. When it comes to conceptual truth aka belief, it’s best to be agnostic of all of it. Well, it could be like that, but it also could be like this. None of that is existential truth, however, and existential truth don’t tell me nothin’ about no separate sense of self. That’s conceptual truth, not existential truth. And conceptual truth can only really point to existential truth, it can’t be existential truth. Now, some conceptual truth resonates better with existential truth than others, but there’s still a key qualitative difference there.

That's a tough call. Test to see whether it's egoic resistance or whether it's just that you authentically don't want to do it. Probably the best test for the latter is to see if it's serving any of your higher purpose values. If it is and you still have a block, then it's probably an egoic block like fear or a limiting belief.

God help us.

Bear Man boy

By the way I no longer accept this view. This was before my recent enlightenment experience which happened like a day after I posted this. This is rubbish.

Where do questions come from? Whose questions are they? Whose answers are they? How do the answers compare to truth?

The idea that you have control over reality is an illusion. When you become Enlightened, you give up all attempts to control and just become aware of life living life. Watch:

This is all mental masturbation. What is true? There's awareness and what is happening. Watch:

Looks good.