Joseph Maynor

Materialism is a belief. When does a pink blob become a brain? Do you see how the Mind is augmenting what is actually seen by pasting a conceptual rubric on top of reality?

A better way to think about Enlightenment is increased awareness. It’s a more realistic perspective on reality. Like the difference between the way a child versus an adult sees the world. Enlightenment takes the adult and moves them up another notch.

A daily meditation habit for 30 minutes a day. Be as mindful as you can: which is sort of like always meditating throughout your day. Realizing that judgments are not your judgments. Do Enlightenment work to come to understand this. Do Leo’s Life Purpose course to get at authenticity.

I like your excitement about doing this work. The best thing you can do right now is implement a daily meditation habit for 30 minutes each day. Meditation is kinda magical in that a lot of your neuroses will drop away over time, and the neuroses are what are really holding you back. Meditation slowly chips away at that problem for you.

As Leo says in one of his videos: Often it’s not knowledge that people lack, it’s the motivation to take the actions that they know they should be taking that people lack. Can you help them with that block?

Absolutely. Life Purpose is all about starting from your authentic self. In order to start from your authentic self, you gotta first discover your authentic self. Life Purpose is deep; you gotta know yourself.

I agree with you too Shin. I use the language/theory I do because I find it to be the best way to present and teach Raising Awareness/Enlightenment. See my reply to Nahm’s response. Nice answer though! We gotta be able to talk though; and to talk is to choose words. And therein lies the dualistic rub! So, each communicator must develop their own nomenclature to achieve the same shifts in awareness. This is where creativity, independence, and teaching intersect. It’s kinda cool once you become fully aware of this! It’s fascinating. There is no one right way to say things in teaching Enlightenment. This is immensely deep! I could nitpick the way every guru says things. But it’s irrelevant when you consider the purpose behind their words/theory. This work is all about raising awareness, not clinging to beliefs.

I agree Nahm. But to say anything at all we must become dualists. I use the theory I find least harmful and most comfortable and intuitive to me. That’s why I phrase things the way I do. I’ve thought this through. It’s a good issue for people to see though. Thanks for shining the light of awareness on it. D’yall get this issue? It’s a deep one. It’s important for y’all to grok the issue Nahm is raising here. I’ll do a post in my Journal outlining my key terms as well.

@Ether Actually thoughts do exist as thoughts, it’s just that what they say about reality is not true per se. That doesn’t mean thought-stories are useless — theory is used as a tool to build knowledge and awareness. The issues raised by theory in Enlightenment are subtle. Maybe Leo needs to do a video on this issue because a lot of people seem to oversimplify and hand-wave the role of theory in the project of raising awareness. Theory is damn important in this work! I think people get trapped into thinking otherwise, and they only limit themselves unfortunately.

Thank you Leo for cutting my learning curve with this stuff and exposing me to your work. May the rest of this year and next year return some value to you — as you have given so much value to us. Being a millionaire is probably still available for you if you keep doing what you’ve been doing. You deserve that. More than anything, you prove to all of us that this content does work and it is legit because you lived it and applied it yourself. You’re a great role model for me and many others. PS — You should write a personal development book for newbies and intermediates. People could buy that book with your life purpose course and be set on a good track with this work. You’d be helping people and making good money too.

What is Science? You should contemplate that before you ask whether something is or is not a Science. You should first have clarity of the category of Science, no?

@Nadosa How’s your daily meditation habit? Describe.

@30secs That too would be technically false and metaphorical at best. Anything said cannot be it. The Mind is only pasting stories on top of what is and nothing more. I know this is tricky, but you gotta grok this deeply. Otherwise you’re gonna fall into the trap of interpreting thought-stories as reality. The Mind is very sneaky with this trap. This is why we say reality is Idealism in order to drive home this point. The One cannot be fragmented. By its very nature the Mind fragments; it cannot function any other way. In conclusion: Reality can’t be rationally grasped. Soul is a concept that the Mind pastes on top of reality. Technically, there is no soul. Reality is non-dual — it has no pieces or finite properties. All such pieces and finite properties are birthed by the Mind and are technically false.

@Wyatt Technically no. Awareness cannot be conceptualized. We can dance around awareness with concepts and describe it metaphorically, but you cannot capture reality (aka awareness) with concepts. Anything said cannot be it. Reality transcends conceptual description. Many people seem to miss this point and fall into the trap of thinking reality or awareness can be conceptualized — but it never can and it never will.

I will buy your book. You deserve to get paid for your work. You provided value to the world; thus, the world should provide value to you in return. That’s how true business should work. Congrats on the publishing! I look forward to reading this book carefully. This inspires me to step-up my own writing too. I need to get off my ass and work on my own writing much more than I currently am.

@UDT Life Purpose = Authentic Career Creation. I didn’t get this for a long time either. Most of us need to work to earn our livings. Life Purpose is a pragmatic strategy for earning money. If we didn’t have to work to earn money, we could all live in a cave and collect welfare, but 99.99% of us can’t do that. If you are forced to earn money — why not do that as authentically as you can? I don’t wanna work to earn money either, but I choose to — because I wanna be happy and not hurting in this illusion. I wanna work doing something that fits me rather than me trying to fit into someone else’s agenda. So, Life Purpose is not a necessity, it’s a pragmatic strategy. You can choose to earn money in a less authentic way too, you’ll just suffer a lot more for it. Life Purpose makes lemonade out of a batch of lemons. You’re taking a shitty fact — needing to pay for your living — and segwaying that into maximizing good and minimizing bad. Sure, you could live like a bum on the street too, although that’s not a wise strategy for the obvious reasons.

Enlightenment is the murder of the Ego by the Mind caused by increased awareness over time.

@spicy_pickles Yes, you can get past these issues. Make a project out of doing enlightenment work. Start with a daily meditation habit.

@Lauritz The idea that conceptual knowledge is mere entertainment is a false and limiting-belief. Conceptual knowledge is necessary for raising awareness. Let’s not get so smart that we start denying solid stuff. Think about it, you are using concepts to trivialize concepts. This is a common trap; a phase that I went through myself in this work, which is why I now see the trap because I came out the other end of it.

@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.

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

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.

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.