Joseph Maynor

Well we all know what it's like to be trapped in the Ego-Mind. So, imagine watching the Ego-Mind from a corner in the room instead of being trapped within it. It's like being able to see a mechanism for what it is that you were formerly not conscious of.

No. Transcendence just means that you clearly see the Mind and Ego for what they are. Once you see them for what they are, they can trap you less. If you had to cross a minefield and you knew where most of the mines were, you would end up less maimed on the other side.

What do you think the Matrix is?

No, Monkey Mind is caused by you not transcending the Mind or you going through some trauma that threatens the Ego which causes the Mind (which is an agent of the Ego) to freak-out.

I was thinking more of the chin of the "creature" resembling a bunny, but who's to say haha.

I'm still trying to figure out where the hell he got bunny from that creature. That's weird.

Great answer.

I really resonate with Zen which is really helping me to transcend the Mind.

Bunnyfishsquid lol. I actually like that. It fits in a twisted kind of way.

Roughly but not entirely, the Mind is an agent of the Ego. This means that the Mind is looking out for the interests of the Ego. An agent is like a servant, an employee, a hired-hand. This is why transcendence of the Ego-Mind, or the Ego and the Mind, go together like ham and eggs. You must transcend the Mind as well as the Ego or it doesn't work.

Well, yeah, you're gonna be bamboozled by the Mind at first, but you'll see through the Mind more and more.

Mind is great when you're not unwittenly caught up in it. It's being bamboozled by the Mind that's the issue.

Do bunnyfishsquid swim out of water?

I agree.

Mu! Not to be confused with moo.

Yeah, but you gotta cut the ESL (English as a second language) people some slack. You would suck too if you tried to write in another language. I've dabbled in Spanish, Turkish, Mandarin Chinese, and Italian, so I know what it's like to look at language with a beginner's mind. Any ESL person who can write here gets my credit.

One of things I do which is kinda weird is sometimes I meditate lying down directly on the hard floor and I kinda make up my own stretching stuff as I meditate. It's good when I do this. I find it to be very pleasurable and it releases tension. I don't always meditate like this, only every once in a great while. Most of the time I meditate my laying down in my bed. And I don't care if I fall asleep either, sleep is good. I welcome sleep.

I think my best advice for Leo is to stop making regular videos for like a year and just spend time on the Forum for that year. I've grown so much just by being on the Forum. Maybe he can post to his blog (including videos), but I would cut out all the regular videos for 1 year. There's too much of a distraction there to always be coming up with "cutting-edge" material that can easily serve as a block on the Path. There's too much Egoic pressure there. The Path requires that you be humble and do nothing and just let things be for a good long while. All those mental "have to's" really get in the way of just being. Take this in good faith, I really thought about this a couple of weeks ago, and I almost didn't post this, but I decided to anyway because I really felt like it was good advice. Don't take this the wrong way or use it as an invitation to attack me please. I'm trying to give my best here.

Is the Mind really a fiction? In what sense?

I actually like Leo's older videos about Enlightenment more than the newer ones. The older ones were much less metaphysical. But that's just me. Don't take my opinion for your truth, you figure it out for yourself. In my view, Leo's newer videos on Enlightenment are way too conceptual, way too metaphysical. But, we can disagree, right? There's room for disagreement.

Truth is a metaphysical theory that the Mind clings to. It's actually an epistemological theory but I'll gloss it as a metaphysical theory. At the end of the day it's a theory; irrespective of how you want to categorize it further as metaphysics or epistemology or what have you.

I had an insight yesterday that the most Enlightened person is the person who just lives their life and is not preoccupied with Enlightenment discussions at all. It's a liberation from the Mind. That's the highest level of Enlightenment. Just you living your life without being preoccupied with talking about Enlightenment. I am not at this point yet, and this might just be a thought. But it was an insight that I had, and I just wanted to note it.