Joseph Maynor

It seems like that from the Ego’s perspective. But the Ego is the true leap of faith. That’s the irony.

@Serge The Mind clings to lots of beliefs that distort reality. That’s the issue.

@AleksM This is the guru that the Beatles visited in India right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles_(album) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi

Law of Attraction is simple. Just think of what you want to create. That’s all Law of Attraction is. It has this big, fancy name — but it’s very simple and powerful in practice. Just think of what it is you want to create. Use the Mind in your favor.

That’s what Meditation accomplishes. I am basically always keenly-aware now. It’s like I am constantly meditating.

Get Leo’s Life Purpose Course. It’s good. I’m doing it now.

@Nahm Enlightenment without Life Purpose work is a bit too idealistic. Life Purpose grounds Enlightenment in a way. A lot of people don’t yet realize how much the Mind still has them by the balls (or ovaries) when they opine about Enlightenment. Remember — all thoughts are just labels placed upon a sea of ever-changing sensations. Even Enlightenment can become a trap if it is attached to in an unwholesome way. Truth is false. Did’ya grok that? Truth is a mere label. Reality is not concerned with labels. Life Purpose is about understanding reality through observation. So to that extent, Life Purpose is an application of awareness. It’s a trap to cling too tightly to our cultural terms. What are these labels worth really? They’re mostly distractions that lead us into mental and linguistic side-shows. Life Purpose gets at uncovering the facts of reality. Enlightenment is mostly concerned with raising-awareness regarding beliefs. Both are needed in this work though. But concepts/ words/ beliefs will never give us the kind of truth we are expecting them to. This may be the most devastating truth of all! As our categories wax and wane, reality moves forward unaware of our yammerings left in tow. We need to stop acting as if there is one right theory of reality! That is so low-consciousness. Of course there’s not one right (highly culturally idiosyncratic) theory of reality. But we wanna be Scientists, right? Watch out! This is one area where Scientists can learn from the Philosophers. Philosophy is 100 years ahead of Science in certain quarters of intellectual discourse today —and it’s been that way for the past 60-70 years now. Two words — Ludwig Wittgenstein. That dude turned culture on its ear in the early 1950’s.

Gotcha. No problem.

Stop clinging to the limiting-belief that you are stuck. That is false. You are always response-able. You always have a way to move your piece forward. Nothing is holding you back but your belief that you can't act until you solve some non-existent problem. Do you see this? All blocks are illusory. What makes them real is only your believing that they're real. This is a nasty trap that the Mind pulls. You gotta be able to see through this deeply -- both theoretically and in the moment when the issue pops up. When you develop this kind of awareness, you'll see that all blocks and resistance are illusions of the Mind.

This is a puzzling thing to contemplate. Let me show you one of my contemplations here. I'll capture it below, and just freewrite it here so you can see how I contemplated this issue. It seems as though one could argue that the visualization is reality when one is engrossed in said visualization. Ultimately what this conceptual framing is pointing to are the visualization trips that pop up throughout your day. Those are like little psychedelic trips, at least relative to the main psychedelic trip we're on. I realize this is just the Mind breaking reality up too. But it's probably "pragmatically true" that we could say [to the extent that the concept "real" is applicable] that it applies to visualizations where awareness is consumed by said visualizations. It's so hard for me to even ask a question about Enlightenment anymore -- because now I even see problems with the word/concept/duality "real". But this question still resonates with me as puzzling enough to warrant asking here to see what responses it gets. When every Enlightenment question you could ask falls apart in the asking, you're gonna be in a paradoxical predicament. Do I ask? Do I not ask? You see? Maybe there's nothing to ask anymore. Ok, well -- what do we have to say now? It's almost like this deep-paradox is true: There are no issues, yet everything is at issue. But no paradox is true because it is false; it can be released. Wow, this turned into a little hornet's nest of the Mind's reasoning and language passageways. I can even see how awareness solves this problem, but it does so silently. It's a non-conceptual knowing. From the perspective of the Watcher, whatever the content of awareness is in the moment is what is "real" (to the extent that we want to coin a label to make the Mind feel like it knows something.) But "real" has nothing to do with awareness in the moment.

You could teach them a lot of Life Purpose principles. Get them oriented to find their authentic-self and get their majors aligned with their Life Purpose and chosen career field. You should do Leo's Life Purpose Course yourself just for the hell of it. It's only $250. You'll love it and it will make you a much better educator. You're gonna learn a lot about yourself that you still don't even know yet. I'm going through the course myself now.

When is the re-programming course gonna get rolled-out?

I need to take a deep dive into Shakespeare myself. That's on my list of things to do in life. I want to visit England and walk the grounds that he walked and breathe the air that he breathed first though. I want to imagine what life was like at the time he was alive and what his life must have been like, and what his performances would have looked like. I would probably even bring some of his writings with me to England and read them there. That's how I do this kind of work. I did this with Confucius -- I read him when I stayed in Taipei, Taiwan for 2 weeks, and it was amazing. I would walk through ancient temples with the book in my pocket. I would go sit in a pagoda and read for a while and drink tea, etc. Taiwan is more ancient than China because it never went through Mao's Cultural Revolution. I read Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle when I stayed in Athens, Greece for 2 weeks. That was incredible. I went to the location of Plato's Academy and saw the ruins of Aristotle's Lyceum. I walked the Ancient Agora where Socrates , Plato, Aristotle, etc. used to hang out. I saw the Parthenon, etc. That was the best 2 weeks of my life so far.

The Now doesn't tell you jack about your authentic-self. That's the paradox. You can be deeply enlightened and still be clueless about your authentic-self. Life-Purpose and Enlightenment are 2 very different sides of the same coin. They're two different perspectives on the same reality.

@Leo Gura Business is tricky. That's why I'm gonna start boning more up on business and marketing concepts myself. One aspect is burnout. Simple burnout. That's a trap in business. You just get tired of doing the same old shit, even if it was something you were once passionate about. So, your business needs to evolve with you to keep it interesting. That's an issue. Also, when you turn your hobby into your work you can also start to hate that hobby. I found that out when I tried to make money playing jazz gigs. I found that I loved making music on my terms but hated doing it for money where I felt forced. One thing I found good to commit to is to being a millionaire because even if you fail, at least you're gonna be focused enough on money that you're not gonna suck at bringing it in. As soon as you take your eye off the ball of making money, your business starts a slow-death. There's just too much competition out there to be passive in business. I like to say it like this -- If you shoot for an A, you'll probably get a C. If you shoot for a C, you'll get an F. That's how business works. You need that killer-instinct to be great in business. You gotta rip the shit out of your comfort-zone. Bust through those fears and limiting-beliefs. This is the most advanced Life Purpose work. I love this video. I've made it one of my goals to become a millionaire.

From the Ego’s perspective, Enlightenment looks like an evil ideology masquerading as a religion; like a bunch of scoundrel, wacky, miserable, dim-witted, drug-addicted, misguided, oddball, immature, trouble-making, hippie bums, who are under the unfortunate spell of an unconscious death-wish, hiding behind the pretense of a noble mystical cult — all in the misguided, compensatory attempt to feel less inferior and insecure about their childish, impish, foolish, self-destructive, idiotic, latently suicidal, worthless lives.

It’s actually the opposite. I see the Mind is messing with you hard.

Cool, I’ll check it out. I’m reading five books simultaneously right now. Does anyone else read multiple books at the same time too? Two of these five books I’m actually re-reading because they are so juicy with wisdom.

The reason you feel stuck or resistance in your life is because the way that your life has randomly fallen-together or turned out the way it has is breaking integrity with your deeper values. Life Purpose is all about discovering your authentic-self and then aligning your career with your authentic-self. This is what creates Excellence in your life. And with Excellence, money comes as a by-product.

@Dan94 I just started Leo’s Life Purpose Course. I’m taking my time with this baby. I feel like I’m doing real personal development work again. I feel highly productive again on this path, like I’m making progress every single day again. I like that feeling.

Nice idea to start, but Life Purpose work is much deeper than this. The only thing deeper is Enlightenment work. But Life Purpose work is much deeper than people think it is. I was surprised to discover this myself.

Science is a subject category, a thought, a general concept, that contains some general principles and properties, and contains some historical baggage too. But the thing I wanna emphasize here is that Science is a cubby-hole, a category, a thought. Science doesn't exist in the same way that a rock exists. We make too much of Science. It is a piece of cultural baggage that we inherited. Forget about Science and just focus on whether the piece of knowledge at issue is credible or not in the given context. Science is by-passable, it is not a mandatory category. Focus on whether or not the piece of knowledge at issue is credible rather than whether or not it is Science. Think of Knowledge as being like a grab-bag of concepts, heuristics, principles, and tools that you carry around with you because you feel like they might come in handy to solve future problems. Stop thinking of Knowledge as needing to be true. Stop thinking of Science as needing to be true. Those are Mind traps.

@ADD I can be fooled too though. I can be pretty easily fooled when someone pretends that they like me. Then I drop my guard. I like to have my guard down, so once I drop it I can be vulnerable. But when my guard is up, I can see almost anything 5 seconds before anyone else can. I have the Eagle-Eye haha.

@ADD I don't see anything visual though. It's more of an inner-sense. Like being able to read people quickly. It's keen intuition, one of my strengths. I've always had it.

I feel vibes from people. I have almost a sixth sense where I can read people pretty well from a vibe standpoint. My intuition is very keen.