Joseph Maynor

Actually, I’m gonna commend you, I think this is a very good question. It’s the kind of question a smart newbie should ask. The answer is that your experiences can have a connection. But that doesn’t mean that there are things behind the scenes. All there is are the experiences. So, you gotta figure out how your beliefs are adding to the experienced phenomena. This is what Enlightenment teaches you about.

Hey — I didn’t mean to take all the oxygen out of the room on this question haha. Let’s keep this alive! This is a good question. A magical question. Certain questions are magical on here you gotta admit. And you can’t predict in advance which questions will have that magical quality. There’s an element of surprise!

@blazed Please elaborate. You just accused me without defending your thesis. That’s not a valid criticism. Let me try to assist you to unpack what is being said here. You wanted to challenge me — let’s have a real discussion on the matter.

Seeking understanding is your problem not mine. If you’re awake, more understanding is superfluous. Enlightenment is not about having the right beliefs. The awake person realizes all beliefs are false. This is not merely believed either. Only awareness can lead you to this perspective. To me the Devil is telling someone that they’re wrong based off irrelevant third-party testimony. The whole point of being awake is to realize that no third-party testimony is relevant. There is no single right answer — insisting on that is what the Mind wants to do.

There’s a stupid taboo against admitting you are awake. Of course Enlightenment is a life-long process not a destination too.

Yep. You can release every paradox.

Give her the Life Purpose Course for Christmas! It’s never too late to do Life Purpose work.

Breathe, then smile. Now go on with your work.

The Mind is just a metaphor. All language is metaphorical. All beliefs are false.

@beastmode My original intent was to write a Philosophy book. But I’ve amassed enough freewriting material over the past 8 years to write potentially several books on many topics.

Wow! You’re doing real work. Good for you. This inspires me to get off my ass more.

Think of it as building up the Education pillar of your Enlightenment journey. It gives you breadth.

You don’t die. That’s the counter-intuitive thing. The belief that you die is a false belief.

Focus on living principles in the present moment. Be principle-centered. That's how you do it. Watch:

I think we have a lot of smart women on this forum already.

@egoless It's more musical than a harmonica. I play jazz trumpet. I don't mess with toy instruments myself. But people get good on them. Get yourself one of those pocket trumpets. Try to play a chromatic instrument. And start to learn a little bit about theory. If you wanna get good, you gotta develop a taste for theory.

College-years too for me. I knew my authentic-self best in college.

The Ego is just the Mind. Although, the Mind is more than the Ego.

Do Leo’s Life Purpose Course if you haven’t done it yet. Nows the time for you! You need more awareness into who you are, what you really have to offer, and what you really want. It’s amazing how confused we are about this.

Don’t try to read faster. Just be highly selective of the books you do read. Skim if you must. I get it, a lot of people do not know how to write-well, and our books are plagued by this. There’s a lot of fluff in our books. When you encounter fluff, just start to skim but catch all the golden-nuggets when you come upon those too. Learning how to skim is key. With many of these books you’re only gonna get two or three ideas from them — but those ideas are gonna be golden! You may see that the book would’ve been better off written as a pamphlet than a book (they had to add a lot of bullshit in there to turn it into a book.) But you do need to be reading books, lots of books. Your education depends on it. I’ve read hundreds of books myself. If you want increased and even above-average education, you gotta read lots of books — even nowadays, when there is so much info available online. Carefully research which books you will read. It’s like marriage — pay very careful attention to the selection process.

Melodica

I’m taking Leo’s Life Purpose Course now. I thought I had a Life Purpose, but I made the mistake of not aligning it with career. I was all confused about career. But yes. I’ve always been living a life purpose. My life purpose has been until recently to write a book. But now I realize that that’s not quite right strategically. Life Purpose is about career and much deeper than what I thought. I lacked a lot of awareness about the theory of Life Purpose. That’s why I recommend everyone do Leo’s Life Purpose Course. What you think you know about Life Purpose is almost certainly wrong! This is one example of how theory can be massively important in Personal Development.

Maybe Sadhguru is wrong!

WOW! This is a great question. Freeing people from limiting-beliefs seems like a biggie to me.