Joseph Maynor

@Someone here How would you describe absolute originality?

I already know "his" answer.

What do you think about the no separate self neo-advaita thought?

Is this a thought, feeling, intuition, or not even?

How would you describe an insight?

How much energy does it take to do spirituality for years and years? Isn't the energy the same, but only how it is directed different? It seems the energy is the same, only the subject matter to which it is directed is different. Think about sitting under a tree meditating all day. Interestingly enough, that takes a lot of energy in the discipline it takes to do that. Elon Musk wouldn't have the energy to sit under a tree and meditate all day long.

Looking at everything as performance art is an interesting paradigm shift. When I went to the Dickens Fair a few days ago which is an immersive performance art event of Victorian era England set on Christmas Eve at 7 pm, what surprised me is how the distinctions we make nowadays were not really made back then. Artistry wasn't really so specialized. Performers were comedians, orators, musicians, tradesmen, hecklers, intellectuals -- all wrapped in one in many cases. It was more human, social and holistic than it is today. Then again this was an event, but it made me realize through specialization, we lost something magical. We lost the performance art aspect of life and community where everyone participates. The joy of this too.

I wonder how much control people have over what they do. It could just be easy and natural for them to do those things like it is easy and natural for us to do spirituality for years and years. We assume they are grinding or pushing themselves. Some people just have a lot of energy and desire to work. We assume they are suffering, but if they were, wouldn't they just stop? Maybe that's their path of least resistance oddly enough.

How would big or giant ego be defined? As opposed to a small or tiny ego?

Learning how to play Jazz.

I like to say semi-jokingly if you want to be a glutton for punishment, teach spiritual enlightenment. And it's not the normies that will come after you it's other spiritual teachers. There is a solution to this though. It's coming at it patiently and with more love. You can point and share instead of teach.

He would say there is no separate self and that this aversion in the form of beliefs and corresponding negative emotions comes from a belief in a separate self which leads to suffering because emotions are not acknowledged.

Besides being able to speak neo-advaita fluently now? I've had a few more awakenings since then. I've also been following everything on here too, so I can see how people have changed on both communities.

I've been on @Nahm's forum so long I'm not even sure there's a separate self anymore. Good to see you. It's been quite a while!

I'm thinking mathematics was created like all other artforms. But just like any other creation (e.g. a genre in music) once the tropes are laid down, a lot of discoveries are made in the artworks that follow under that artform (e.g. a chain of influence in albums in post-rock in music). If you haven't encountered this book I highly recommend it: "The Story of Mathematics" by Moltz and Weaver.

@Someone here What are the highest levels of consciousness?

1. Absolute Wisdom 2. Absolute Beauty 3. Absolute Love 4. Absolute Truth 5. Conscious Creation 6. Humor 7. Authenticity 8. Personal Development 9. Music 10. Philosophy

It's all me. It's been a long time, but here I am. Hello old and new friends.

Do you have a desire to do this?

Or is a Guru more than a Life Coach? I'm trying to get clear about this Life Coach concept which seems to be both new and old at once. Relevant video to watch:

It's a thought/visualization in the Cognitive Body.

The environment that you're in affects your whole life. You're stewing in your environment soaking all of it in. One of the best and easiest things you can do in your personal/ interpersonal development work is to optimize your setting (change where you live). I wouldn't discount this. Setting is huge. Every city that I've traveled to had a kind of controlling theme or vibe that will program you if you stay there long enough. So, you wanna be conscious of that programming and consciously choose/change your environment (where you live).

Start a blog.