Joseph Maynor

I've been alone for the past 4 days on purpose absent my participation on here. I've been working 12 hours a day on my personal development stuff. And one thing I noticed is that I am so much happier and at peace than I was last week with all the holidays and the social shit. I'm just being my authentic-self working my butt off and it's like I'm not even working. Life is only brutal when I am not doing this. When I am doing this, I am at peace and happy. Even Enlightenment culture makes me unhappy. All culture grinds on me after a while. I've recently just become conscious of this fully. I realize this is probably a block I need to get over at some point. Song to set the mood: And another: And another: Video on point:

I really appreciate this post. I'm gonna print it out and study it carefully. I need to do more work with the body, instead of being so top heavy with the mind all the time. I am top heavy. I need to balance out my enlightenment by doing more for the body-mind.

Here's a good exercise. Write out an answer in your own words to this question: What does it mean to be compassionate? Just write what authentically resonates with you. Forget about writing what you think you should write. Just channel what comes out authentically. And then a week later do the same for this exercise: What does it mean to be uncompassionate? I want you to wait a week do you forget what you wrote for the first exercise. I want you to have a clear head for both, without any biases in there.

I mean construction in the sense of your own genuine knowledge/ philosophy. Video to watch first to get your mental juices flowing:

Nature works a certain way, and then labels and meanings are attached to how the Mind conceives of that way.

It's a self-acceptance issue too -- accepting not-knowing. The neurosis behind need to know is often a self-esteem issue. I've noticed it in myself. It manifests as chronic know-it-all-ism. The Ego likes to be the guy who is always right -- the guy who always knows.

It's similar to a partnership.

The problem is that once we find this, we wanna run around and tell everybody that that is the way things are. We want to promote our ideas. We are not content to just keep our beliefs to ourselves. We need that sense of feeling superior to other people that we deem to be ignorant in comparison. This relieves us of our insecurity of being inferior, which we have been programmed with in our childhood somewhere. This whole sense of needing to know is a disease. And a lot of people are not conscious of this trap fully.

I like all of it. I don't put it in that kind of hierarchy. Most of Leo's videos are excellent. Some are good. A couple are average. None are bad. Some of my favorite videos are the 2013-2014 videos. But all the eras of Leo are great. I see that he's tracking his own growth. But I like algebra because if you don't learn the basic rules of algebra very well, all advanced math is much harder to get through. Those early Leo videos are the algebra. Now, is calculus more important than algebra? Well, not really. Algebra is what makes calculus possible.

What does it mean to classify something as real? What is not-real? Actually write a couple of sentences for me.

When exactly is reality brutal? Whose reality are we talking about?

This is a great insight and observation SOUL, thanks. I have fallen into playing the role and trap of the know-it-all myself. I will be posting a series of posts in my Journal addressing this issue. I got a lot of juicy insights on my last acid trip about this kind of trap and others. Probably the biggest danger of the know-it-all trap is that you don't realize it when you are playing the role -- you can get stuck in it for a long time before you become aware of it. It took me dropping 7 tabs of acid to see it in myself. So, awareness of this trap needs to be placed on the tip of the Mind. I've noticed this trap in myself before, but just because you noticed it before doesn't mean you can't get trapped in it again. So, awareness of this trap needs to be keen and constant.

Haha. You guys have sex on the brain. See, I am too pure, like a priest.

When one door closes, another opens. I love that quote.

Don't turn that story into a limiting-belief Leo.

This one keeps your intestinal plumbing sound. When I run out of this one I know it after a few days. I love this supplement because I can tell my body appreciates it and loves it.

After I had my first major ego-death psychedelic experience, I basically took a couple of months off the grid. No internet, no reading, no media, very little culture, no music. It was very healthy. After a while my intellectual interests came back, and I came back to the Forum to contribute.

Flow like river. Still like pond.

I came to this insight myself. Time is a representation of change — and change is illusory in the Now. The Now never changes. And The Now is not the present moment, and the present moment is not the Now. That’s another insight! Watch:

Don’t turn that into a limiting-belief. You can work on your Enlightenment right now. Don’t assume you need anything for this work to work on it. Now, when you get books, great, but go ahead and start this work right away.

Music is a construct as all art is.

Highly recommended. This book will give you a nice perspective on what it means to be human and to have a human mind. https://www.amazon.com/Evolutionary-Psychology-New-Science-Mind/dp/0205992129/ref=nodl_

In part, yes. Your description resonates well with me. I have my own pet words and metaphors that I loosely cling to to talk about Enlightenment. It’s nice to see that Enlightenment can be explained in many different words and metaphors — which are all culturally-charged.

1. It will give you insights about dating and sexuality by looking at how we evolved. 2. It gives a new lens or paradigm from which Psychology can be viewed. 3. You’ll find out fully that we are not blank slates — but survival machines that evolved over millions of years. 4. You’ll get an insightful explanation of “status seeking” behavior from an evolutionary perspective. 5. You’ll get an insightful explanation of social behavior, including family behavior from an evolutionary perspective.

Do it! It’s very healthy. I did it for 30 days myself. You’re gonna be amazed at how different you feel. Your entire mind-space will shift — mark my words. Stay away from reading too. No media, no reading, no music — no added shit. Just natural life. Do it like that. Let the Higher-Mind purge all this shit out. It wants to badly.