Joseph Maynor

In what ways are you ashamed about the way you are?

Here's a quote I got from one of Emerald's videos: "Mindfulness is the reality that gives rise to words. Words are only a pale shadow of this reality."

People don't really know how to separate existential truth and relative truth very well. Just because existential truth is not conceptual doesn't negate all relative truth. I think a lot of people get so bought into the theory that they lose common sense. Common sense, though not existentially true, is still a valid form of knowledge. One just needs to keep in mind the lack of certainty (often but not always) found in relative truth. Just because you doubt beliefs using enlightenment theory as a counter-weight theory doesn't mean that everything you believed before is not truth. It just means it's not existential truth. Existential truth is simply what is sensed by you in the present moment. It's amazing how confused people are by these Epistemological issues. You don't want to negate all relative truth using existential truth, and vice versa. They are two different things. Relative truth is conceptual truth whereas existential truth is awareness of reality in the present moment. People are no good at walking and chewing gum at the same time with truth. The Mind hates the fact that there are two kinds of truth and prefers to have only one. That's where you get the attempt to simply and purify truth and reduce it to an overly-restricted foundation. This has been happening in Philosophy for time immemorial. People have screwed up notions of Epistemology that they cling too tightly to.

Don't try to repress the Ego. Just observe your sensations with mindful awareness.

I’ve realized beliefs are a double-edged sword in this work. They are useful to get a person to doubt their beliefs, but then that person simply exchanges one set of beliefs for the Enlightenment beliefs. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. That’s a trap. How about suspending belief? Can you do that? The less strongly you cling to belief, the less judgments you will make. Now, don’t try to control anything, that’s not what I’m asking you to do. Just watch the thoughts, don’t get so caught up in their insides. It’s a change in perspective, but in a non-theoretical sense of perspective. Thoughts are just sensations. You don’t need to cling to the stories at all. It’s almost like asking someone who is so used to a horizontal perspective to learn to use a vertical one. It’s like huh! Yeah, that’s what you gotta do. Enlightenment is friggin’ counterintuitive to the Mind. You gotta change what you’re looking for and change what you’re looking at.

Yes. Scarily accurate.

What is the main thing that you are subconsciously trying to fix in your own life? What's the one thing that gives you the internal motivation to do all this personal development work? Is doing this personal development work helping you avoid thoughts, emotions, or realities that are painful? What are those thoughts, emotions, and realities?

"Psycho-Cybernetics" by Maxwell Maltz "Mastery" by George Leonard

I actually benefited from reviewing your Blueprint when I was forming my big-picture of self-help theory. So, it is a useful tool as it is. You don't need to make it perfect. It is good as it is now. It's just an outline. You're never gonna make an outline perfect, so don't try. But I used that Blueprint and milked it for a lot of perspective on self-help theory. Paradoxically, that Blueprint is best reviewed and used by advanced students rather than newbies -- advanced students who are trying to get a bird's eye view of self-help theory. The advanced student already has all the trees, but they might still need to spend some time in the forest. The Blueprint is the forest -- or a very small patch of the forest at least.

Awareness lets you detach from the Ego. Instead of identifying with it, just be aware of it. Don't try to repress the Ego. That would be falling into the trap of repressing the Ego with the Ego.

Ray 3 This is the ray of the abstract thinker, of the philosopher and the metaphysician. You have a highly developed imagination, and you can quickly visualize and understand and grasp the essence of truth. Your idealism will often be strong; You are a dreamer and a theorist, and from your wide views and great caution you usually see every side of a question equally clearly. However, this sometimes paralyses your action and you may make a lot of plans which you don't always carry out. You will make a good businessman, and can work out a problem in tactics at your desk. With sufficient willpower, you may also be great in the field. As an artist your technique may not be superfine, but your subjects will be full of thoughts and interest. You will love music, but unless influenced by the fourth ray you will be unlikely to produce it. In all walks of life you are full of ideas, and only need an extra push to carry it out.

Make sure you aren't identifying with having to be the right one or the smart one. That just perpetuates the Ego. Don't repress those traits, just watch them. Don't judge them as good or bad either. Just watch the mechanics of what is going on in the moment. Watch:

Everybody goes through that stage. I know I did too. You gotta fill up your cup before you can empty it. And people have different sized cups. Oftentimes thinkers like me have huge cups. This means that Enlightenment takes a long time because a lot of beliefs have to be crunched to satisfy an overly sticky Mind.

Awareness alone is curative. We say this, but we don't really practice it. I have learned to love practicing it. Practice mindful awareness.

We should all come to Vegas! It's built for this kind of thing. Stay there for like 4 nights at the hotel of your choice. Just do once this year. And we can meet up informally. There are plenty of places to meet up in Vegas. This will save money and maximize fun time too. I Love Vegas

What about your enlightenment?

What is your life purpose? Email me if you don't feel comfortable stating it here.

I read it. It’s all theory. Theory is thought about reality, not reality itself. Theory is not gonna answer this question definitively, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t useful — you gotta fill your cup before you can empty it. The Mind insists on this kind of conceptual knowing about reality. But through awareness practice (I.e., Meditation) you’ll learn to question these paradigms. Video on point to watch:

What are you mostly interested in?

How is this going? Are you still experiencing your shift?

Leo’s Life Purpose Course really taught me how to apply the theories to my life. Before I started that course I had a lot of knowledge but I didn’t really know how to apply it to my own life.

No. Just the opposite. I feel like now I know so much I can actually clean my life up and get it running very authentically, which I have been doing. If you feel that way, you likely have some blocks you still need to work out.

Are you frustrated because you are trying to change reality or control reality? Don’t do that. You wanna accept the Ego and just watch it. Everything that happens is reality. It’s the Ego that is trying to repress the Ego, so don’t do that. Just watch the Ego and just watch your bad behavior and traits when you do them. All you wanna do is shine the light of awareness on reality. What’s real could not have happened any other way. So, don’t judge or fight what’s real. It’s like banging your head against a brick wall.

All the beliefs that you are clinging to sub-consciously and their connection to the I-thought is what makes the Egoic you. When you look at reality from a sensation standpoint, you can see that none of the components of reality are associated with the the Egoic self at all. That’s when you’ll start to see that the Ego is just a nest of associated beliefs, a set of thought-stories. The Ego is not Existentially True. The thoughts that are associated with the Ego are real, but what those thoughts say — their insides — are false.

Watch this video if you wanna learn about what non- conceptual reality is.