Joseph Maynor

Oh yes. The Ego hates meditation. It doesn’t want to be observed so keenly.

That’s the danger. That’s why you gotta release videos at a certain point. Watch them one last time and that’s it.

Yeah. You can get a state of very deep mindfulness and awareness when you are pushing yourself and in flow.

Contemplation is getting at what you actually believe too. This is why I like to often ask for definitions to be put in your own words. I'm trying to get you to actually find out what's in the subconscious mind. Sentence completion exercises also get at this. For example: My top 5 greatest fears are . . . .

To me he has a certain look that gives him that guru look. That makes him sort of naturally interesting. He looks like an alien. He's so weird looking he must be wise eh? That's what I think is happening subconsciously with people and why he is as popular as he is. And his personality is strange too.

Hey friends. I've been thinking about this lately. Recently I've had some breakthroughs in consciousness, and I realize that I had dipped back into the Ego for a while after being high-consciousness before. I want to find a way to sustainably maintain high-consciousness once its high to avoid the yo-yo effect. This question is also something you should review -- it's on point too:

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to just leave it all behind and become a Sadhu or something. Watch this wonderful documentary:

Email me if you come to San Francisco. I'll be in Vegas the last week of February . I'll be staying at the Golden Nugget.

This is right up my alley. Thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_(Neil_Young_album)

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

This is a pretty obnoxious thing to say. Are you including yourself in this pretentious statement?

Leave everything as it is but get rid of the up-votes. If you need to look at an up-vote to know whether a post is good -- you need to put your thinking-cap on better. ON THE OTHER HAND -- it does let you find out what other people like about your posts. You find out who digs your posts. That's useful information. I've learned which people are like-minded to me. On second thought -- just leave everything as it is Leo. Maybe do a post on the etiquette of the up vote and how it should be used. Sometimes I use it inappropriately myself.

In order for you to be and feel right, someone else needs to be wrong. And feeling wrong is intolerable to you. It's the worst feeling. It makes you feel small, stupid, ugly, insecure, weak, inferior, like a pathetic loser.

Sounds great.

Here's the problem. Can you tolerate feeling wrong or like you don't know? Are you really gonna be able to accept that? Because otherwise you'll just always assume you are right, and you'll continue to use your rules to rationalize this.

Thank you for this Dodo. Recognizing the plethora of perspectives is a key thing to keep us humble and focused on being the Watcher instead of trying to make our limited perspective the litmus-test of reality. There is no right perspective. A perspective is a story. Reality just is. Furthermore, a perspective is highly influenced by culture, whereas reality is not. Reality is a-cultural.

I realize now that I got caught up in this. This is why one should be meditating every day. I had gotten away from that. Meditation keeps you centered on just being aware. It is only through awareness that you can get real work done. All this thinking really just has us chasing a hit of feeling like we know. But that never lasts.

Chasing is neurotic. This is why a meditation practice is advised. People need to become more accepting of reality instead of neurotically always trying to move towards something. Just accept what is. This is easy to say and hard to do. The Mind is always neurotically trying to "understand" things. Being doesn't need to be understood, it just needs to be experienced.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick's_Picks_Volume_4

I gotta call you on your baloney! I'd do you a disservice otherwise.

I used to have a policy against apologizing because I rationalized that what I did was what I though was right to do in the moment, so apologizing was a silly thing. Oh how wrong I was! Most of us should be apologizing constantly. It's that lack of humbleness that is so indicative of the Ego. Put yourself in other people’s shoes to actually have compassion for those people.