Joseph Maynor

I can vouch for this one: 'Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge' by Robert Audi https://www.amazon.com/Epistemology-Contemporary-Introduction-Introductions-Philosophy/dp/0415130433/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1533243379&sr=1-3-fkmr1&keywords=routledge+into+to+epistemology

IF YOUR WORK IS HARD AND GRINDY — YOU STILL GOT LIFE PURPOSE WORK TO DO — LIFE PURPOSE IS A LIFE-LONG PROJECT — FINDING YOUR LIFE PURPOSE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG WITH LIFE PURPOSE WORK Your authentic work shouldn’t be hard and grindy. If your work is hard and grindy, something’s wrong. You still got more work to do in Life Purpose, that’s all — and that’s no surprise. If you know your genuine Life Purpose and you’ve done a lot of infrastructure work after finding that out — your work-life should become both easy and super-productive over time. It takes at least 3-5 years of investment in Life Purpose work to get to this point. And that includes doing Leo’s Life Purpose Course. If you don’t do the Life Purpose work, you’re not gonna get there. What you work on is what you improve. Life Purpose work is not merely knowing your Life Purpose. It’s hacking away at it every day to get your whole life revolving around it over the course of months and years. It’s your authentic work, your authentic craft — your art — the object of both your Muse and Will to Explore — your Life’s Calling.

Of course. I’m using language to convey this, which is easy to attack. I’m not confused. But for people who have the ears to hear it — I’m giving a nice pointer — a nice orientation to what Enlightenment is and is not. And I’m doing it in plain and simple English — none of this confusing gobbley-gook.

I would say both. Micro is more about optimizing the systems of your life. Macro is more about getting rid of bad programming like beliefs, paradigms, etc. both Micro and Macro come together.

Yeah, but see once you find your Life Purpose — that’s where you’ll wanna pay someone to let you work on it for 12 hours per day. It will give you super-human work ethic — and it will be like play, it will be easy, passionate, and fun. Your problem is you haven’t found that, so your motivational system is not brought out of its shell. Your motivational system is laying dormant.

Because you haven’t found your Life Purpose yet.

Enlightenment is BE-ing in the moment without pre-judgments or pre-expectations.

Great video from Jordan Peterson on point:

I think it's a good system, but you can't take it too literally. It's a useful structure. I think Spiral Dynamics is like the newer technology -- if we think of conceptual systems as more or less useful technologies, which they actually are.

What you want is awareness, not control. Just be aware when you meditate, don't try to control anything. your problem is not lack of control, it's lack of awareness. Do Do Nothing Meditation for 1 hour each day.

Try to make your work your entertainment. Or turn your entertainment into your work. You can decide how to interpret BE-ing. Whatever you’re doing can be entertaining, even if it’s meditating for an hour. Do Nothing Meditation is highly entertaining. BE-ing is entertaining. Video on point to watch:

Stop doing what you don’t authentically want to do. Procrastination is a creation of the mind. The Universe is already doing what it wants to do.

I’m well on my way. Enlightenment is about BE-ing in the moment without pre-judgments or pre-expectations. It’s letting the Universe drive the car instead of thinking that you’re driving the car. All the attaching, doing, controlling, and conceptual knowing that you think the Self is doing will fall away. The ‘Paradigm of Self’ will fall away. The 'Paradigm of No Self' will fall away.

What do you mean by 'radical'? I'm a pretty normal dude actually.

The only relevant question is are you Enlightened. And if not, what do you need to do to solve that problem in your life? See, we're so focused externally 'out there' -- when the only relevant issue is always internally 'in here'. Video on point to watch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooji

Clinging to the Paradigm of Tier-One Conceptual Understanding.

I believe him. Why would someone lie about being fat as a kid. A lot of people who get into Personal Development have a certain kind of adversity in their background. That’s what makes them tough as shit. I had the same thing. I wasn’t really fat, but I had other problems. You have to have a certain kind of ‘I don’t give a f*ck attitude’ to be great at Personal Development PLUS a compassion that comes from being that person who was formerly at a disadvantage. Those two really come together to make you a rockstar Personal Development dude later on in life. I mean, if you could just do it — why would you need Personal Development? You gotta struggle or face some kind of adversity for Personal Development to even emerge as an issue for you. Videos on point to watch:

Make fun of your shadow side. It will be funny to you as well. A lot of the time the stuff you make fun of is your shadow because you're trying to distance yourself from that. But you can tap into that for humor. That's why I'm always making fun of bums on the street -- because secretly I'm kind of a bum myself, although I never had to live on the street. I guess I'm a bum in the sense that I never did anything I didn't want to do. And a lot of those people weren't as lucky as I was. So, I find that a lot of my humor comes from me trying to distance myself from being the street bum. The loser, the guy who can't keep a job, the addict, the ne'er-do-well, the guy playing a musical instrument on the street, the guy who's basically a social outcast. That's my shadow side. That's the side for many years my Ego has tried to avoid. Just pay attention to what's funny to you and connect it to your shadow side. This is why a lot of closet cases are the people quick to make fun of gays, right. Same thing -- they're using their shadow side to inspire and create humor. Video on point to watch: To me, because of my shadow side, this is really funny:

What's so great about Sadhguru? That's an amazing name though, right? It's got the word 'guru' right in it. What is it about Sadhguru's opinion about things that means squat to you? Gimme some meat that I can check out like a video or something. I know people have posted all kinds of videos. But gimme that one video that I need to see the value in Sadhguru. Maybe I should re-name myself 'Joeyparalegal' or something haha. I'd probably be taken a shitload more seriously in the Freelance Paralegal industry. 'Joeyenlightenedone'. That would go over real well! It might get me a gig as one of those odd guys who try to sell their 'services' on the street. I saw a guy holding up a sign today that read 'Astrologer for Hire'. He wasn't a street bum, but he was an odd looking guy with the pointy beard, weird hat, and odd clothes.

GREAT VIDEO FROM MOOJI

A TIP FOR PEOPLE ON THE ENLIGHTENMENT PATH -- FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AND EXPERIENCE Your awareness will increase more and more the more Enlightened you become. And with that increased awareness, you'll just watch everything happen and not get triggered by it. You gotta transcend the Paradigm of Self. It's not about you, it's just about what your experience is like right now. If you're trying to force that experience to be one way rather than another, that's the kind of clinging that you need to become aware of. Reality just moves without your input. What you need to do is just let reality do what it wants to do in the moment. Just try to be aware, which will eventually stick you smack dab into the present moment. One of the great things about being Enlightened is you're stuck smack dab in the present moment. And you're just surrendering to BE-ing in the moment without pre-judgments or pre-expectations. Eventually you'll transcend the Paradigm of Self. And when that happens, you'll just BE. And BE-ing is not a doing, it's not an attaching, it's not a controlling, and it's not a conceptual-knowing. It's just BE-ing in the moment without pre-judgments or pre-expectations. Video on point to watch:

It's a very nit picky sense that I get after watching a lot of his videos. Don't take any teacher too seriously. Let them resonate with you, but at the end of the day, you are the only guru for you. Eckhart Tolle is in my top 3. So, he's way up there for me. He's very wise when it comes to Enlightenment. And he's a great communicator. Each Perspective has a unique conceptual system of Enlightenment. And that's just the way things are. The problem comes when you go from using conceptual systems to believing in conceptual systems. And we all fall victim to that. So, I'm not judging him as if I'm above him or anything like that. It's just a sense I get. I think the original context of my remark was I was suggesting that Eckhart Tolle might be the kind of person who could benefit from psychedelics. It might be something that could really give him that tiny bit more awareness. I know LSD worked like that for me. LSD gives you a kind of super-mindfulness. And that can be really useful to your Enlightenment work.

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENLIGHTENMENT AND CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING There's a difference between Enlightenment and Conceptual Understanding that a lot of Enlightenment people miss. And Enlightenment benefits Conceptual Understanding, and Conceptual Understanding benefits Enlightenment. One of the ways that Conceptual Understanding benefits Enlightenment is by increasing awareness of the Paradigm of Paradigms. In other words, we're not always conscious of everything we're clinging to. Conceptual Understanding gives you the awareness to bring it all into high-relief. So, Conceptual Understanding is not bad per se. Enlightenment is about BE-ing in the moment without pre-judgments or pre-expectations. You're not gonna be able to surrender like that if you're clinging to 'need to know BE-ing'. It's 'need to know BE-ing' that's the problem. It's clinging to paradigms and beliefs about BE-ing that's the problem. You can think all you want to solve pragmatic problems in your life. But if Enlightenment is what you want -- you gotta make sure you're not clinging to Tier-One Conceptual Understanding. And that's why Conceptual Understanding is relevant to Enlightenment.

This isn't perfect, but it's in the vicinity:

BE-ing is not something to know, it’s something to surrender to. Trying to know BE-ing keeps you from surrendering to BE-ing in the moment. It’s what causes tail-chasing in Enlightenment.