Joseph Maynor

Watch those two videos and look at how he relishes saying no like a stubborn kid almost. It's weird once you see it.

Neo-advaitans seem to be obsessed with saying no. They love that.

This is a very good description of Love IMO. Realizing everyone has a different/differing Truth on some level. I know this is paradoxical -- if one is looking at things from a Truth perspective alone.

I agree. In the context of health, overthinking is often the opposite of what needs to be done. It's diet, exercise, and getting off addictions. That's all action-taking and habit re-formation.

This is a very fascinating statement actually.

My take from reading Ramana Maharshi (mostly written not by him notably) is his primary teaching is snuffing out the I-Thought. I seriously doubt he is a solipsist. He would not attach to the mind in this way, I don't think.

Who is letting go?

I didn't realize there is a Part 2. I love it.

This is the ultimate neo-advaita video IMO. Hilarious.

How do you know the body exists?

There seems to be a Purpose or we might call it a Telos that is driving toward growth and Wisdom. There's a Point to It.

I'm actually not an athiest. My insight is that Truth/Reality/God whatever you want to call it is concerned with personal development, teaching, learning.

@Inliytened1 Do you have a view as to whether Reality/Truth/God has a purpose and what that purpose is?

This sounds like the no separate self insight.

I don't think anyone enjoys being homeless. That's a little bit of a stretch IMO.

Clarity tends to zero in whereas wisdom tends to zoom out IMO. They're not entirely separate paradoxically.

I don't see much agreement happening between points of view on this topic.

Is it difficult to get enlightened or to stay enlightened?

I point to that with Truth or Absolute Truth, so I think we just have different words for the same thing, maybe. God to me has too many religious connotations, so I avoid the word. But what it points to is what matters most, I think.

This is a good point. But we need to be careful about reductionism here where we reduce direct experience to a deeper sort of analysis such as quantum physics.

Okay.

I see what people are pointing to with the word God although it's not a word that really resonates with me. But that shouldn't matter to anyone either. It's just my preference or bias or whatever.

This gets into what we attribute thing status to, which has to do with ontology. We seem to attribute thing or this status by an assumption that goes beyond sensation, perception, or even thought. E.g., we assume we exist even though maya is moving, or that the Moon exists despite the same.