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Joseph Maynor replied to egoless's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Awareness stays the same but the content is always changing. -
Joseph Maynor replied to Ether's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selling_England_by_the_Pound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxtrot_(album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursery_Cryme
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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
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Joseph Maynor replied to Max_V's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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. -
Joseph Maynor replied to iTommy's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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. -
Joseph Maynor replied to Peace and Love's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Unfolding Check out the actual album cover! -
Joseph Maynor replied to Peace and Love's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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.
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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.
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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.
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Joseph Maynor replied to Peace and Love's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Joseph Maynor replied to Peace and Love's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Joseph Maynor replied to Peace and Love's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
Album cover: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mjzpkBFjpYU/VbMLcxNp-lI/AAAAAAAAFDw/KvbttjQTn9Q/s1600/Free%2BElectric%2BSound%2Bcover.jpg -
Joseph Maynor replied to Peace and Love's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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We're here to grok the subtle distinction between Mind and reality, and to explore reality fully.
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What inspired you at an early age to make your life big and to become passionate about Life Purpose later on. When did you see that you needed to go rogue and design your own career and realize how powerful and necessary this strategy is in life for some people. Not everyone falls into the available career cubbyholes we have in our society. And most of us simply were raised with big gaps in our educations, due to our families, etc. It is pretty bold to create your own career. How come I missed this and you figured this out? Did someone or something influence you that I didn't get? What did you figure out that I missed? Why did I miss it? I'm a smart dude too.
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Joseph Maynor replied to Peace and Love's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Joseph Maynor replied to Peace and Love's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Joseph Maynor replied to Peace and Love's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Joseph Maynor replied to outlandish's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
@outlandish Trying to conceptualize Enlightenment and then clinging to that like it's the truth is a trap. Look inside. That's where reality is. You'll see yourself grow. That is the real meat of enlightenment, not some conceptual labeling. The labeling is window-dressing, not the meat of the matter. The meat of the matter is your growth. That is ongoing, no? Growth is not discrete, although we can conceptualize it that way. The Mind has all kinds of fancy things to say about reality, but reality just is. The Conceptual Voice is like a dialog box on top of reality, but it doesn't effect reality one whit. The Mind likes concepts, so don't get sucked into its reality. It doesn't authentically want you to anyway, it's just you gotta build awareness to convince and remind the Mind of that. When you build enough awareness, the Mind cannibalizes the Ego for you. Enlightenment might be thought of as this cannibalization process, although that's just more slapping labels on reality. Reality laughs at our little labels. The Mind is addicted to feeling like it knows something conceptually about reality. This is useful in certain contexts, but in Enlightenment we gotta be mindful that conceptualization of the truth is NEVER the truth. All concepts are projections of the Mind on top of reality, but these projections are like that dialog box I mentioned, not inherent to the reality itself. You gotta know when you're in a dialog box and when you aren't. That's keen awareness, or a piece of it. Seeing stuff like that in the moment becomes like seeing through a young child's attempt to perform a magic-trick -- and what differentiates the adult from the child is increased awareness. So, seeing is believing! You can't unsee certain things. That's how awareness snowballs for you once you start to cultivate it. -
Joseph Maynor replied to Peace and Love's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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Joseph Maynor replied to Peace and Love's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
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You might end up pretty rich Leo. Your work is an arsenal for growth.
