Joseph Maynor

When are you gonna be as rich and famous as Tony Robbins?

These are my *currently* favorite Leo videos: 1. The number one reason you are not succeeding 2. Personal Development -- How your mind is like a rider atop an elephant 3. One simple rule for acing life 4. Willpower -- Scientifically proven techniques to build your willpower 5. Peak Performance -- How to hit and maintain consistent peak performance in life 6. Success & Creativity -- Why you should be more schizophrenic 7. Create an exciting life -- your proudest moments exercise 8. How to never quit -- The key to re-framing the toughest obstacles 9. How to stay focused -- The key to being extremely productive & clear minded 10. Personal Power -- How personal power creates success 11. Staying Hungry -- How to use pain for growth 12. Positive Thinking -- The key to thinking positive 13. The law of attraction -- How it really works and how to use it 14. How to stay committed to a cause 15. Self-control -- How to develop self-control to live an amazing life

In other words, did you enter some career that doesn't really fit you to a T? Explain. When did you start to figure this out? What do you think you would do if you could do it all over again? Sometimes I can look at a person doing a job and see that they missed their calling to do something else.

This is all just dualistic speculation, but what the Hell; I feel inclined to write and will honor that Muse here. We are programmed to follow the Lower-Self, probably due to our evolution. We aren't designed to live a long time. And before we were so smart, we needed strong instincts to guide our actions to survive and thrive. Go get food, go get sex, go get comfort, go get possessions, go get security, etc. The Higher-Self is a positive use of the Mind-Matrix that we constructed. (We can use the Mind-Matrix like a CAD program, see video below.) To live the Higher-Self requires that we fight the Lower-Self for control over our actions. To do that, we have to dislocate the Mind from our Identity, which requires the ability to see the Enlightenment Problem in all of its complexity. The final result of Being is simple, but arms-lengthing the Mind-Matrix is a very complex process. This is because you have to understand all of the ways that the Mind-Matrix interferes with reality, which gives you the knowledge of the *numerous traps* you need to maintain a true practice of Being. The biggest problem we have is we identify too tightly with the Mind/Mind-Matrix. That helps us practically to navigate basic evolutionary functions in the world, but it causes problems when we ask more Philosophical or Scientific questions. The duality and habits of the Mind/Mind-Matrix become apparent when we exceed the bounds of pragmatic thinking. One of the worst problems with the Mind/Mind-Matrix is it becomes a tool of the Lower-Self. The Ego calibrates the Mind-Matrix to be in its favor. The Lower-Self is one manifestation of Ego. The basic problem of Personal Development is transferring the reins from the Lower-Self to the Higher-Self. Don't cling to these dualities too tightly though. Do them, don't let them do you. Video on point to watch: Video on point to watch: (How the Higher-Self can be engineered in the CAD Program of the Mind-Matrix.)

Turn the mind off and really live. That's what do nothing means. And it is exciting. I like the excitement in the drawing. Non-doing doing. Non-knowing knowing. Non-being being.

These are a bit odd, eh? You ever had this happen to you?

I meditate in 15 minute blocks 3 or 4 times per day, as needed. I do not meditate on a fixed-routine except for the first 15 minute meditation which I do after I wake up in the morning. My body-mind tells me when it is time to meditate -- there's a stress that builds as I work my day. Then I meditate and afterwards I feel happy and rejuvenated. I do these short meditations a couple of times per day, and it keeps me nice and balanced. I did 1 hour per day for like a year and a half before switching to my new system about a month ago. I like the newer system, but I think I got a lot of gains by doing the longer meditations. I guess it depends on where you are in your progress what approach to mediation is best. I only do do nothing meditation now, whereas I did 4 types of meditation before. Also, before, I treated meditation more like a mindfulness or awareness exercise, whereas now I just focus on awareness of my body, integration of my body and mind, and allowing my mind to lie down and go to sleep for a bit. I don't neurotically focus on awareness or control like I used to -- I just dissolve into Being. I get strange jolts that bubble out of me sometimes too. I think they are little bubbles of neurosis coming to the surface.

I suppose the analogy would be -- imagine the way a happy baby feels. We can't feel that good haha. We are too conditioned.

This alone has really boosted my life. I am totally unhooked from mainstream media. And being on here instead has really programmed my standards very highly. You are what you eat. Birds of a feather flock together.

Mastering savvily-clinging (and not-clinging) to beliefs and other Mind-Matrix objects. So crucial. Do-Nothing Meditation 4 times per day for 15 minutes. Getting my body and mind in harmony with each other and letting my Monkey-Mind take a nap. Reviewing the theory binder I made. I call these my "Yin/Yang readings". Self-Inquiry and mindfulness. Being present in the moment. Understanding the traps of the Mind-Matrix and of duality -- so I can notice and avoid traps. Watching my information and food intake. I cut myself off from most things except what is healthy for my life-purpose and for my emotional well-being. We stir our Monkey-Mind awake with all the shit we consume. I don't even know most days what is going on in the news unless somebody tells me. I don't know anything about what's on TV, and I don't watch movies or listen to music anymore either. Affirmations and visualizations. This is me feeding myself with healthy information. This is a counter-weight to the media garbage that we are bombarded with. That stuff will sabotage you. It is poison to the mind. I actively spoon-feed myself everyday with healthy, high-quality affirmations, visualizations, and information (reviewing my Yin/Yang readings and other highly-selected external readings or videos accomplishes my information component). Reviewing my Hero's Journey binder which contains all my goals, mission statement, action-plans, and written vision. Video on point to watch:

I just picked up a stapler from my desk and it caused a stir in my beliefs -- a little goose to the ole ideology, as it were. It seems like I can know the stapler is an object without believing it is, because I don't need to cling to any thought to perceive that it is a separate object -- my senses reveal this. Picking up stapler makes the stapler a thing. Do it yourself while in a state of Being. This is so weird because this would suggest that the mind doesn't create (all) objects -- that (some) objects exist in Being which are not created by the Mind-Matrix. Where exactly in the process of picking up a stapler is the mind suggesting that it is a thing? It seems as though my perceptions are suggesting it is a thing. Once I hold it in my hand, I don't even need a belief to *know* that this thing is a thing -- It's felt as such seeming independent of Mind-Matrix interference. But this is all belief-stuff, Mind-Matrix stuff too -- because when I am in flow, I pick up the stapler without individuating at all. Thinking of a thing as a thing is a thought.

I want to investigate my limiting beliefs more. I'm going to make a list of limiting-beliefs that I am clinging to. Your ideas could help me. All limiting-beliefs are existentially false. I get that, but the issue is that we still cling to limiting-beliefs in everyday life. This is a practical question more than an enlightenment question.

Why does it have to be an either or? Do you appreciate that this stipulation is a duality? Enlightenment requires theory, practice, being, all of this. Once you learn how to cling better and the irrelevance of belief to Being, you can cling much more dynamically instead of these big, broad, binary, context-independent approaches to clinging. That is a stipulation of the Mind-Matrix too. Enlightenment requires it all, and you will see at the end that there is a specific thing that you want to get (<=listen to how dualistic this sounds!). Then Enlightenment gives you the tools to cause that "experience" (<=look at the duality here lol) more or less at will. The Mind-Matrix tricks you into thinking beliefs and need to believe are really important -- but listen to this: Beliefs are irrelevant to Being. Totally, 100% irrelevant to Being. If you are clinging too hard to beliefs, by definition you will never "know" Being. Being requires an arms-lengthing of the Mind-Matrix combined with a deep understanding of the nature and limits of duality. But see, even this is said using language which is dualistic. So, don't cling too hard to this. Enlightenment is hard to "teach". Enlightenment is *loosely challenging* (<=no word is appropriate here because it is too dualistic) the medium in which teaching happens: duality. Clinging to beliefs is important to Being, it depends on the situation, but it will happen intuitively and naturally pursuant to context. But, the "Being that is de-void for the most part of Monkey-Mind" has little to do with beliefs. Beliefs, once conceived as such, are an object of the Mind-Matrix, not an object of Being. There are no objects in Being. All objects are Mind-Matrix elements. Tip -- Let go, but don't turn letting go into more ideology, dogma, or beliefs. Enlightenment is about loosening our grip on beliefs and becoming smarter about how and when to cling to beliefs. And knowing the limits and traps of *need to believe*. You don't need beliefs as much as the Mind-Matrix deceives you that you do. Being has nothing to do with beliefs. This isn't 100% true, but it's a good affirmation to say to install this into your subconscious-mind. I almost hesitate to write anything at all because of the duality of language. Ultimately, theories, combined with your own self-inquiry, will cause shifts for you, and those shifts will cause your enlightenment, not mere beliefs alone. Enlightenment is not conceptual. Even this is too mechanical. There is a conceptual component to Enlightenment too. See? Nothing I say is as certain as the Mind-Matrix wants to make it seem when it is communicated. The finite cannot capture the infinite. But even this claim is finite. There's a rigidity, a mechanicalness, that is built into duality. It's like trying to design a human being using strong AI -- it's never gonna work! Engineering is too dualistic to create a human being.

Watch this video Do the exercise in the video!

Totally. Trying to interfere will often-times cause a lot of ego backlash. It is really deep to see how little control we have over the situation where we have a song stuck in our heads and can't get it out. It is very revealing about Monkey-Mind, Ego, Mind-Matrix, Duality, Conscious-Mind, Subconscious-Mind, and all of the cool stuff that we talk about in Enlightenment theory and practice. What I like about this is that it's a real example, not just more theory. This is a real problem that we can inspect, like the half-crazed scientist, by getting our prodding-tool out, and actually taking a gander at what is going on there under the hood. It's a good "where the rubber meets the road" example for Enlightenment. We have a real phenomenon to investigate!

The question is absurd and dualistic. Substance is a Mind-Matrix thing. Being doesn't conform to the Mind-Matrix. The Mind-Matrix wants to cubby-hole and judge Being. See, even this language I am using here is metaphorical. That's an insight that you gotta grok. That's the deepest insight is that all language and thoughts are atomistic and dualistic. Being is non-dual. <= But this thought is dual. See that? The way to get at substance is to back away from the Mind-Matrix and see what is left. But even this description is metaphorical. See? If you wanna get at Being you gotta realize all the traps of duality. I know it now because I've experienced it. Once you experience it you will come to know it. And then you can stay in it. But see, even this is metaphorical -- stay in what? And even this is dualistic because it reeks of discreteness. Being is not discrete. Doh' even this is discrete? See? Duality is hugely limited when talking about Being. We do not realize the limits of duality without some education and inquiry. What is useful for Science is not necessarily useful in Metaphysics. What is Being? See, even this question reeks of duality. It assumes Being is individuated. Let's say I say this -- Being is not individuated. Ok, well, same problem. What Being is is reality unpolluted by the Mind-Matrix. But even this description is metaphorical. Once you see the metaphorical nature of all language when referencing Being, you'll notice that Being has nothing to do with the cubby-holes that we are neurotically trying to cling to. And when you can distance yourself from these processes, then you can see what is left, and that is pure creativity, lightness, spontaneity, love, and peace.

@Samuel Garcia You know what's crazy? I still don't know what it is haha. Most people would have at least looked it up, right? Not me. I have no connection to mainstream media. I cut it all out, like 98% of it. It's all toxic. I can dream-up enough in my own life, I don't need other dreamers encroaching on my space and diluting my drink. How can you hear the still-small voice if you are up your eyeballs in stupid shit? I did that nearly all of my 20's through to my late-mid 30's haha. No mo! My goal is only to implement my own dream now.

I know this is not empirically confirmable, but to the extent that concepts can cubby-hole awareness conceptually, I'd like some feedback. Maybe the answer is that there's a better theory than this, rather than you're talking nonsense get outta here. I understand the difference between awareness and concept of awareness by this point. Both have their utility in certain contexts. This is actually an interesting definition that either I pieced-out of Leo's videos or I created by being inspired by his videos, I'm not sure where it came from now. But it came out of my notes. It's pretty profound. So, the person with the highest awareness would see through all traps and would presumably be fully enlightened thereby -- within this framework, of course. We're talking about a theory here unabashedly. That much is clear. What is the utility of this definition of awareness, if any? For some reason it is resonating with me.

Absolutely. I've spent my entire life studying, thinking about, and writing philosophy. Do you have a passion for it? All of it is good. I don't trust people who have too many opinions about Philosophy. Most of them don't like Philosophy much, so keep that in mind.

This seems like it could be a plausible definition because it is something that varies per person to a greater or lesser extent, or at least it can be vaguely modeled that way. It passes the laugh test, but maybe it still needs to pass the smell test. I am very charitable to hypotheses which have yet to be tested. It's a good habit to keep.

I like to look at it like this, even though I don't want to label myself as having an ego, I can look at reality through the concept of ego and apply that lens to reality and to other things in reality. But the map is not the territory. I refer to it as cubby-holing through the lens of Yang. You can rubricize reality in terms of Yin and Yang, but Yin and Yang are just lenses and not actual features of reality. I think we need to be very cautious about saying we are any property or not any property. When we arms-length the Mind-Matrix, those issues lie moot to reality. Reality just is. The Mind-Matrix is what wants to cubby-hole things as ego and not ego. When you arms-length paradigm, theory, beliefs, concepts -- Mind-Matrix -- all you're left with is Being, which is property-less. So, I am no-thing. Whatever I "am" is what the Mind-Matrix says I am, and that is too limited of a designation no matter what it is. I am not a property, a quality, a thing, or a thought. Even the "truths" of enlightenment are Mind-Matrix products. Except for the few things that can be determined empirically and the experience of Being when the Mind-Matrix is arms-lengthed. Those don't have much to do with the mind, unless you believe that the mind is projecting all distinctions onto reality and not just adding things in with thoughts. If you believe that, then you have a more robust view of what the Mind-Matrix is doing to "overlay" and "alter" reality; e.g., you might believe that all distinctions are products of the Mind-Matrix. And does this extend to individuation of objects too? -- probably, if you ask these theorists. Without doing more self-inquiry myself, I am cautious about believing too many positive-claims made in enlightenment theory. I view enlightenment theory as just loosening our existing theory, not as a replacement truth. I hope this makes sense. My take is that enlightenment is not about believing different truths, it's about being the true skeptic and arms-lengthing all beliefs. Arms-lengthing is different from accepting and denying. Cling-loosely and only when appropriate is my motto. Don't just change jerseys, take them all off. You don't want to be an enlightened dogmatist, that would be the wrong answer -- just to frame this dualistically for fun. Actually what you want to do is savvily cling and not cling to the different jerseys in the right manner and at the right times pursuant to your aims in particular contexts, but I am getting ahead of myself here. I'll discuss this idea in my journal. Like when you drive a car, even though the car is moving smoothly, there is a complex and organic discrete application of (or clinging to) the gas and brake pedals that produce that continuous motion. And note that this combination of gas and brake must be intuitive if we're dealing with real terrain. It is too complex to be modeled by any computer or dualistic theory. Sure you can model one small stretch of natural terrain perhaps, but a human can easily drive any terrain, even unforeseen terrain. Driving a car is an example of the Breath of God. We just drive the car without thinking anything, seemingly naturally. We open-up and simply harmonize with the Tao, with Divine Creativity. We do the gas and brake pedals, they don't do us. We forget this a lot often, especially when we are talking about ourselves or about the external-world. Very often we mistake the map for the territory. We often reverse cart and horse; and the horse gets aggravated by this and the cart gets damaged as a result. When I'm in Being, I could care-less about categorizing or labeling most things. I just try to harmonize with the Tao, or Divine Creativity. I'm realizing more and more that the Mind-Matrix was designed to deal with practical matters and is very clunky dealing with philosophical matters, and matters regarding reality itself. Thinking is inherently dualistic and atomistic in nature -- it is discrete. Reality is more primary than the cubby-holing qualities of the mind. I like Leo's idea of building a tube down to the bottom of the ocean and then trying to maintain that indefinitely. It's a fool's errand. That contraption that we built is gonna get smashed to pieces like a toy one day when Nature gets bored, looks for something fun to do, and rears-up, making a swift-mockery of our simple-minded intentions. The Mind-Matrix is like that! Too simple by half a lot of times. You can't catch a shadow with a net. See? The Mind-Matrix is what allows the metaphorical-speak I am colorfully playing-around with here. Our funny minds! It's got a mind of its own haha. I could tell it that it's wrong, but then I would only be playing right into its own hands. It's better to just ignore the Monkey-Mind, and then it just slinks-away eventually -- especially if you meditate everyday. Video on point to watch:

Design and implement a strategy where your strongest and most passionate creative contributions cause massive value to some persons such that money is returned back to you in a manner where you can make a career out of this. A corollary: Strategize to turn your life into an art-form where you share your greatest gifts with the world with everything you are working on. Video on point to watch:

Curious. I kept a gratitude journal for a while where everyday I wrote one in one thing I was grateful for.

Curious.

Please explain. Also is diving deep into reality a bad metaphor because reality just is in the moment. It doesn't require our penetration but our acceptance.