Joseph Maynor

Wow. You got a good insight here! I frame this as utility as a criterion for reasonable acceptance vs. truth as as a criterion for reasonable acceptance. People get so hung up on truth. Truth isn’t always relevant unless you’re making it so. You’re clinging to truth.

No, because the media is corrupted by corporate interests.

It’s our media. Our media makes a lot of money stirring up distractions basically. My life changed when I just unplugged from all of it. I still look at CNN.com like this once a day but then that’s it — i don’t look twice.

Non-duality is an understanding. Enlightenment is a being.

Wow. Thanks for all this great information!

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You’re embodying No Ego more and more.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Every Ego wishes to be God. Strategically that’s in the interest of every Ego.

I saw it, but I decided to use the less flattering interpretation to make a point.

It doesn’t click right away. Also it depends on what you’re looking for. At different stages of the Path the object of attention varies.

It’s intersting. These models all have their limitations and pros and cons in different contexts. That said — I like to think of the mind as the best friend of the Ego — the guy who’s looking out for the Ego. Ego is the you that has preferences of reality. The mind is the warner, foreseer, and planner for the Ego.

I used to read a bunch but now I almost never read.

The mind is an agent of your Ego.

Make sure your work is aligned with your Passion. That’s a key principle in Life Purpose Work.

In meditation being can be found.

Ego is your interest in reality. No Ego is being. Both of these are laid on top of each other in a person.

I like this a lot. That’s a big part of it. Life Purpose is marrying (1) your Passion with (2) Contribution to something greater than yourself. Your Passion is work that you like to do. You can think of work as either being in line with your Passion or not. So you want work that’s in line with your Passion that helps others and finally that (3) you can make a Career out of.

The holy-grail is your own understanding of life and personal development.

You can love yourself. You have to love and care for yourself. You are a best friend to yourself in the first instance before any other relationship.

The mind is the the guy who’s in the crow’s nest in the ship of Ego. The mind ultimately serves your Ego by bringing all possibilities and potential problems into Awareness that might conflict with the interests of your Ego. The mind is a tool of the Ego.

Why are you trying to explain consciousness to begin with?

Enlightenment Work functions very practically in my life. It's like the counter-balance of my Ego -- the pressure-release valve for my Ego. No Ego, like Ego gets summoned depending on the context. If reality is really rubbing my Ego the wrong way, I might surrender into being and use the lens of No Ego for a while. You need No Ego -- paradoxically, it's what allows Ego to develop into a Healthy Ego or what I call an Enlightened Ego.

That's a great metaphor. The Ego has to discover No Ego. That's the Path of Enlightenment. So, the Path is designed for Egos.

You'll develop an inner sense for this. I never know in advance when I will meditate. I just do it when it feels right to do it. Similar to how one might eat upon feeling hungry. Some days I'll meditate for 30 mins. Some days I'll meditate for 2 or 3 hours, it just depends. And I never try to force meditation either. I just surrender to it for as long as it needs to be. It's like eating, you don't really force yourself to eat, you just stop eating when you're full -- it's an automatic sensor. Meditation has that too.