Joseph Maynor

Compassion is the effect of knowing the true Self. And this comes from reducing ignorance. Once ignorance is seen through it can be reduced and prevented. Compassion is the prevention of suffering that is enabled by reducing your own ignorance and helping to reduce the ignorance of others. Love is really not the issue it's compassion. Love is a little too vague. You can have love for many things. But compassion is about reducing suffering caused by ignorance of illusion and otherwise. Compassion is walking up to a person and saying "I think you're making a mistake and let me tell you why I think so." So, I kind of feel live love is not quite right as the concept for Enlightenment, it's compassion that's more accurate. It's once you know the truth you can reduce your own ignorance and the ignorance of others, which is compassion to yourself and compassion to others.

You gotta get your whole life handled to where you know why you're doing the work and exactly where that work fits into the overall strategy for your life. And then maybe you just don't like the work, but that's something you'll have to determine. There might be some other work where you should do a career metamorphosis with. A lot of people are doing the wrong work. You might want to check out Leo's Life Purpose Course. It will clue you in on certain ways that you might want to shift your career. Yo, because if you don't like the work you do, it's really hard to stay focused on it. It's a systemic problem that has to be handled much deeper.

i don't buy into the whole percentages thing. For me, each stage was pretty much a solid change from one to the next. For each stage it's more like there's a beginning, middle, and end of that stage. The reason why percentages don't work is because each stage is a paradigm shift. You don't really sit between two paradigms you're either in one or another -- or moving between one paradigm and another.

Often your dreams will be connected to something you saw or witnessed during the day and hours before the dream, or your dream will bring your past back in such a way that either something is satisfied that you wish were satisfied (often incompletely), or if it's a negative dream, it's usually outlining some anxiety or fear that parallels something that you're going through in real life. What you don't realize is that you're always dreaming, not just at night.

I like these kinds of metaphors. They're very instructive. You go have different kinds of people functioning in different kinds of contexts and scenarios. Here's the best one: The quitter, the camper, and the climber. (1) The quitter is the dabbler. The person who doesn't stick with anything long enough to ever get leverage. (2) The camper is the lazy-fuck. Typically these people demonstrate some skill at something, but they top out at a level that is below their capacity. (3) The climber is the performer. This is the guy who's all in and makes it look easy.

Know exactly what quantum of work you need to be doing everyday to execute your small picture and big picture life purpose. Realize that thinking and planning for the most part do not get any actual work done towards those ends. This is a seeing. The mind likes thinking, so you gotta see that thinking is useless because the mind will make thinking feel like it’s the most important thing in the world to do in the moment when you’re engaged in thought.

You’re the single unchanging Awareness in reality. That’s the true Self.

You might go through Green quickly and hit Yellow. I went through Turquoise pretty quickly and hit Coral. It all depends on where your maturity sits. You may burn through Green within 4 or 5 months. Not saying you will though, that depends on where your maturity sits. You gotta be set up to receive Yellow to enter Yellow fast. Otherwise you’ll catch just the very beginning of Yellow.

It’s more than idea. It’s a clinging to a connection between Thought and Experience that’s a me or a mine. Ego is both your Ego and not your Ego. Just like Body is both your Body and not your Body. Ego like Body is gonna be a part of reality. But neither Ego nor Body are connected to the true Self. In that sense Ego and Body exist but the connection to me or mine is an illusion. But see these are not just ideas. It’s when God Awareness clings to Thoughts and Experience that identification with Ego occurs and causes suffering due to ignorance.

Do other beings exist? Does the true Self exist?

Exactly, yes. But then you need to see how you’re causing and contributing to your own suffering by current ignorance and by not bothering to learn from prior ignorance (i.e., making the same mistakes more than once). All suffering is caused by ignorance.

Better than early retirement is to have adequate income result from the work that you would do if you were retired.

Zone of Genius is the one skill that you're naturally good at. My Zone of Genius is deep diving issues and projects.

The proper attitude is compassion for their suffering and the suffering they cause others. But it takes a lot of Enlightenment to realize how this can be possible. Ego wants to make Experience personal, and that's a hard thing to see through. Nothing in Experience is a threat to you. This is something that takes a lot of Enlightenment to see too. But that doesn't mean that you stay passive -- be assertive but be incredibly polite about it too. See, you gotta mix assertiveness with politeness or respect, otherwise you'll get labeled as an asshole. And realize that you're no better than they are in the sense that you too, perhaps in different ways, cause yourself suffering and others suffering too! That keeps you humble. We all cause suffering to ourselves and to others due to our own ignorance. So, compassion and truth-telling needs to extend to ourselves and to others. You need to call yourself on your own shit before you call others on their shit.

I notice that it’s mostly the Blue, Green, and Turquoise people (though Turquoise less so than Blue and Green) that are genuinely triggered by politics. How can you claim to transcend morality, yet be up to your eyeballs in political interest? This is an example of where talk gets mooted by contrary walk. Talk is easy. It’s walking the talk that’s impressive. Video on Point to Watch:

Adyashanti is one of my favorite Enlightenment teachers and he's a natural comedian as well. He's very well-suited to do what he does. When I watch him sometimes I see him as a comedian whose audience just so happens to be a bunch of Enlightenment students. Apparently he was also an athlete when he was younger, he said so in one of his videos.

Develop an enterprising mind and enterprising values. Detach from cultural customs and traditions as having a moral ought behind them. Go after what you want to do in life without worrying what other people think about you.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics. I just want people to know that. I’m not saying you should be like me. I just feel the need to share that because it took me a lot of years to fully realize the utter stupidity and waste of time that politics is.

I totally get it. Coding is fulfilling but also dehumanizing on some level too. I do coding as a hobby because it’s important for me as a future personal development teacher to know how to code so I can do my own web development. But what I’ve found is tech problems frustrate me on a level almost like nothing else can. In almost everything else in life the human mind can bullshit it’s way out of a tough spot. But when something doesn’t work in tech and you’ve been beating your head against the wall trying to solve the problem to no avail — it can be the most infuriating thing that you can ever experience. And this is one reason I’m glad I didn’t become a programmer which I almost did before I switched majors from Computer Science and Engineering to Philosophy. I get really incensed dealing with tech problems and it’s no good for me. But at the same time I need to know how to build my own tech infrastructure that I need for my life purpose goals, so I’m a fan of coding and I promote people learning to code. I think I’ve leveled more swear words and threats at my computer than I have at anything else in life haha. Yo, and what annoys me to no avail is when I go and look to try to find a solution on the Internet or YouTube and I get these communications from tech people who seem to lack basic oral and written communication skills. Engineers are notoriously bad communicators just like lawyers are notoriously bad managers.

Karma is non-attachment to Ego, which is true morality because it is an ought that is reasonable to accept. It’s the only true moral ought because it’s a refusal to get tricked by illusion. One ought not attach to Ego. And I’m not talking about the Egoic self not attaching to Ego, I’m talking about the true Self not attaching to Ego. That’s what Karma is, it’s true morality.

What you think is surrendering Ego is not without Ego paradoxically. Ego, like the Body, is always part of Experience. Ego and body are part of my Experience, but that doesn't mean that as God Awareness I'm attached to them as mine or as me. What I am has nothing to do with Ego or body. This is really hard to communicate in language. Do I have a massive Ego? Yes. Am I attached to my massive Ego? No. Ego is just something that is part of Experience for me. And here's the thing, you have a massive Ego too. Even people who think they don't have a massive Ego have a massive Ego. You can't escape Ego with more Ego. Don't try to escape Ego in the first place. This is like trying to escape the body. Allow Ego and the body to be part of Experience, just don't attach to them as mine or me.

Not at first. Enlightenment is a Path. But as you become more Enlightened, you'll fully realize the stupidity of persona. Persona is something that you allow. Stop allowing it. When you can be honest damn the consequences, you have a fighting chance for a happy and fulfilling life. Otherwise you'll live but you're gonna live a life of suffering and you're gonna cause a lot of suffering to others too.

Each person has their own issues. It's hard to take one person and truly compare him with another. I'm very touch and go with advice that I take from other people. I'm grateful for the advice, but at the end of the day, I realize the limitations of hearsay input too. To compare me to another person is like comparing broccoli with carrots. They're both vegetables true, but they have significant differences as well.

You need to know exactly what you authentically actually want in life. Otherwise the mind will throw sand in your eyes and f*ck up your goals. When you know exactly what you want and don't want in your life to the extent that you can actually enumerate them in writing -- that's step one. Step two is to stay committed to those authentic goals because you fully understand the suffering you're gonna cause yourself and others if you don't pursue them. Can you write down your Actual Problem Situations that form the basis of your small picture Life Purpose Work? Can you write down your Life Purpose Statement, your Top 10 Values, your Top 5 Strengths, your Impact Statement, your Zone of Genius, and your Ideal Medium that form the basis of your Big Picture Life Purpose Work? How do you think you stand a chance of getting results if you don't even know what results you're shooting for and why? The mind will kill any goals that are not fully bought into. You need to have a certain kind of indestructable persistence that the mind can't touch with your Life Purpose goals. Sure, maybe the mind f*cks me today, but tomorrow is a new day and my commitment to my goals hasn't changed. That's why you need to know what your authentic goals are and why you're committed to them over the long-term of your life.

Yep. That's why there's a Path to Enlightenment. It's a process. Just keep on walking the Path and doing the work. You gotta do the work. Enlightenment requires a lot of work.