Joseph Maynor

@molosku The Mind has to have good reason to cannibalize the Ego for you. So, you do gotta feed the Mind info to obtain the levels of awareness required to achieve this effect. The Mind has to realize — Oh! This is hurting me! That requires as much awareness as you can get. The more the better.

Highly recommended. Explains where many words and idioms come from. This book will open your eyes about language a lot. Not dry and boring either. Well written and easy to read and navigate. Good for raising awareness of language.

All Leo’s products are great. I’m gonna do the Life Purpose Course soon too — by the end of this year.

I never had an idea of what I wanted to be. I didn't want to be anything. I didn't want to work at all. But I didn't want to be a bum either. It's just I never had a career or job that struck me. I disliked all of them. I liked them in theory, but had no interest in the practice. My interests have always been too idiosyncratic for pragmatic pigeonholing. It has put me at cross-purposes to easy money-making in life. I realize now I have to custom-design an idiosyncratic career. I wish I knew this much earlier in life. This has caused me to feel like a freak and a loser for a lot of my life just because I did not fit into the cubby-holes of our ready-made career options. Wanna be a lawyer son? Fuck no! How about a doctor? Why? Wanna kiss that professor's ass to get into grad school? Shit. I just wanna be me and be free man! But this life has to be purchased in our capitalistic world. So, career is necessary. I just needed to have my head screwed on tighter earlier on in life to design my own career much earlier in life. Yay! I didn't ask to be born, now I have to purchase my own freedom. Lucky us. See?

Great insight. Spirituality is being more attuned to reality which causes the Mind to release the Ego paradigm over time. Religions ape spirituality but never leave the Ego while doing so. Science can also ape spirituality, and any ideology believed in fervently does too. Once you discover what true spirituality is, you can see all this in high-relief and know why it is the way it is. True Spirituality is the raising of awareness. Through increased awareness over time, the Mind is forced to check itself. That’s why you need faith at first. You need to get over the Mind’s resistance to question itself before you have the awareness experiences in your pocket. The more awareness of reality you have, the more the Mind backs off from trying to bend and twist reality around the paradigm of the Ego. And you get some nice releases. This is the process of enlightenment. This is not conceptual, it is like having what you thought of as reality suddenly shift. Like when you were finally told — No, Santa Claus doesn’t exist! Sorry. For a kid, that is tough thing to swallow.

I didn’t seek enlightenment, I actually resisted it. The only reason I came to know about it or pursue it was because of Leo’s work. I was interested in personal development long before I knew about enlightenment. I would cycle back to Leo’s videos on enlightenment from time to time, and finally this year it started to resonate with me. I’ve been watching Leo’s vids since 2014. Regarding depression. The Mind causes depression, so enlightenment is the big fix for that, if you’re looking for a sustainable solution to the problem.

And I was very adamant about being me in college, I prided myself on it actually. After college, I feel like I gave that part of me away or it got burned out of me, and I had to re-discover it just recently. Does this resonate with your experience? I was pretty adamant when I was in college that I wanted to be a freelance writer. And the recent life purpose work I did seems to confirm that. But when I got out of college, I didn't have the wisdom or the balls to actually make it happen, so I didn't do it. I took a more conventional job as a paralegal instead. I wanted to write on the side, but now I realize that that was not giving my career the shot of adrenaline it needed to be a real backbone for my life: so I could support myself and my life with my career fully. If you treat your job like a hobby, your backbone is gonna be more like jelly than a steel-rod. You need a steel-rod backbone to live an exciting, Big life. I think I had a limiting belief that writers don't make money or that it's really hard to make money as a writer. I never explored this either. Video on point to watch:

The trick is to tell the stories in a way that resonates with them. When you communicate, always tailor your discourse to your audience. Draw the — what the fuck do I care? — connection between what you’re trying to convey and that person’s values and personality. That’s your job, not theirs. You’re the one with the stories to tell. Put it in a language your audience can easily understand.

The best kind of contemplation is meditation.

No steady paycheck unless you earn it. No bennies or freebies. No help from anyone — you wear all hats and do everything. No paid holidays or paid vacations. No bonuses. No one to blame when something screws up. No free office supplies. No free office food. No free medical coverage. No free dental coverage. No getting paid for standing around and milking the clock. It’s all you at first too. If you don’t do it, it doesn’t get done. Clients who wait a long time to pay you after you send them your invoice. It’s not all rainbows and butterflies.

Awareness stays the same but the content is always changing.

Contemplate what possible means. What kind of meaning are you assuming it has? Flesh that out first. These words aren’t as clear as the Mind likes to believe they are.

Cut all your addictions and distractions sustainably. That would be huge progress right there. Keep it practical. Actually start to target and root out each one systematically. Maybe do 1 bad habit every 30 days and after 1 year you’ll have 12 bad habits snuffed-out. That’s real growth right there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selling_England_by_the_Pound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxtrot_(album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursery_Cryme

This is just an idea from my point of view. You should do an enlightenment course. And also the reprogramming course. Both of those courses would be very powerful. Another course would be the execution course teaching people the pragmatics and logistics of execution and peak-performance -- or you can add this material to the reprogramming course. Enlightenment, Life Purpose, Reprogramming, Execution

You're the awareness that everything is happening in. And everything is one. See what these statements are pointing to. That's the experience you want to have. And it's not a conceptual experience. You need to grok being fully by being it. It was profound when I first had this experience myself. It's one of those life-changing moments. When you fully grok that awareness is the only permanent thing, not just conceptually but really, you will think of yourself in an entirely new way. And you'll also think about external reality in an entirely new way too, including other people.

I think the truly enlightened person is able to re-enter the illusion without re-entering the illusion. It makes a complete circle paradoxically. Before enlightenment: carry water, chop wood. After enlightenment: carry water, chop wood. This is deeply profound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Unfolding Check out the actual album cover!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structures_from_Silence Cool zoom in on the actual album cover:

KILLER PRODUCTIVITY STRATEGY TO GET YOU MORE ACTIONS ACCOMPLISHED Strategy: Break the project up into a set of sub-projects. Do each sub-project one at a time in a sequence; Put each sub-project on an index card and arrange the cards in a sequence. As you compete an item, throw the card away; Once you throw all the cards away, you're done! This productivity strategy is to break a large project down into a series of parts and do each part in a sequence. Create a visual aid with the index cards, which keep the Mind satisfied because it knows where it is in the project. The Mind also likes to know when it accomplishes a sub-project -- that's why it's good to throw each card away when each sub-project is completed. These kinds of things keep the Mind on board. The Mind does not like to be put upon. You have to engage it nicely with the project or it will resist and throw up a defense mechanism. Fatigue is one of the Mind's common defense mechanisms when it is not on board with what is happening. Watch yourself start yawning! Another method for getting the Mind on board with what you are trying to do is: Visualize beforehand doing the project from start to end so the Mind is made aware of what to expect. This reduces resistance too. On my walk to work in the mornings I visualize my entire day from that point to when I go to sleep. I try to visualize everything in detail that I am going to do that day. This benefits me enormously because it gives the Mind a nice heads-up, and the Mind knows in advance what to expect. I can't tell you how beneficial this practice is for sailing through your day like a hot knife through a stick of butter! The Mind has to be treated nicely like a potentially menacing dog. You're not just gonna yank a pit bull's leash and expect it to jump and do what you want it to! Unless you're crazy, right? You gotta treat it nicely and entice it to do what you want. It has to decide to do what you want. It has to be on board with you. The mind works like that too. Here's another metaphor to get at this from a different angle. You know when you are downloading some software and you get one of those little timers or circles that fills in that lets you know how long you have to wait for the downloading process to happen? Well, that comforts the Mind, because you couldn't take it having to wait there if you didn't know how long you had to wait! That would be so unnerving, think about it. What I said above is sort of the same principle. You're letting the Mind know what to expect in your day and what to expect in your projects, so that its neuroses don't manifest. The Mind is "bought in" so to speak, at least tacitly.

I wanted to be a philosopher that didn't work for a university. And I wanted to be a freelance writer. Those go back to my college days. I mastered writing because I had it in my mind that I sucked at it when I was in high school and the early part of college. But I was always fascinated by writers, and I like the independence that great writers have to publish whatever suits them and their taste. There is a nice freedom in that. Looking back on this -- I can see now that I was gonna have a big problem fitting into the stock career choices that we have. I just lacked the information on what to do about it.

Start to work on Enlightenment more. Get into Leo's videos on Enlightenment. It takes a lot of work. Get involved on here and ask lots of questions. Grab the bull by the horns and make it a goal to learn about Enlightenment.

Start to do enlightenment work seriously. You need to find your authentic self. Until you do, you're gonna suffer. You need to peel the layers of your onion back to get some growth happening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age_of_Earth