Joseph Maynor

Get rid of that word ‘we’, it’s irrelevant. The only question is what do you need on your path. ‘We’ is only relevant to the extent that it helps ‘you’. Put your own intuitions front and center.

I’d like to see a video on Life Purpose. What happened to Life Purpose videos? People need to hear more about Life Purpose.

Do you know how to just Rest as Awareness?

Sounds to me that you could really benefit from more Enlightenment work. Counter-intuitively, your problem isn’t really a problem. The Mind is creating a problem where no problem exists.

Why does one thing need to be reduced to another? Why can't things stand alone on their own merit? There's always this relation or connection that the mind wants to draw -- a 'this is like that' relation.

The best way to talk with Egos is to realize that you have Ego too. The only difference is you're not as chained to Ego like most people are. Also, realize that Ego is not personal: that happens when you transcend the 'Paradigm of Self'. Ego is just part of what's here -- it's not good or bad. When you accept what is in the moment, there is no more fighting with BE-ing in terms of should dos or should do nots. I credit Mooji with the phrase 'should dos or should do nots', I like that. I think the best way to think about Ego is to realize you have Ego too. That's why you can become compassionate. The only difference between you and them is they're more asshole-to-bellybutton with their Ego than you are with yours due to their clinging to the 'Paradigm of Self'.

To me this looks like really old technology. It's like dragging out a slide-rule to do contemporary calculations. I see a lot of room for literal interpretations of what you posted that could cause a lot of tail-chasing if Enlightenment is what you want.

You’re not gonna achieve sustainable fulfillment with techniques alone. That’s why we need Enlightenment. Otherwise there would be no need for Enlightenment, right.

I never had any use for the Chakras model myself nor for Kriya Yoga. But that’s just me. But every person has to develop their own useful systems, see. You wouldn’t dare say everybody should eat the same items on the buffet table, right. Chakras and Kriya are available items on the buffet table for those people who resonate with them. And they're not for everybody. At the end of the day, the only relevant question to you is whether Chakras is useful to you. If not, there are plenty of other options like Do Nothing Meditation, which i’m a fan of, etc.

A NOTE ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT For Enlightenment, ‘clinging’ to the ‘belief’ that other people don’t exist is just as bad as ‘clinging’ to the ‘belief’ that they do. Both are stuck in the Paradigm of ‘Need to Know BE-ing or Not Know BE-ing’. Enlightenment is not about ‘my belief is better than yours’. Need to Know BE-ing or Not Know BE-ing is orthogonal to simply BE-ing in the moment without pre-judgments or pre-expectations.

Good job! I like your work ethic. What you work on is what you improve.

I think Leo just said he liked Sadhguru's community-building skills, if I recall. I don't think Leo has endorsed Sadhguru more than that. Some of you are doing a bit of projecting onto Leo. You gotta go back and look at what Leo has said. It's the 'Stage Turquoise video' for reference.

BE-ing is right now. The 'Paradigm of Time or No Time' is a thought. And all Paradigms are irrelevant to BE-ing. You're chasing something like the 'Paradigm of No Time' when BE-ing is right under your nose. This is why Enlightenment is both easy and hard. It's easy to get distracted, which makes BE-ing in the moment without pre-judgments or pre-expectations hard. The Mind doesn't know what to do with itself, see. It's doggedly seeing through the lens of Need to Know BE-ing until your awareness gets keen enough to see that as irrelevant to BE-ing. And then you'll just BE and the Mind will drop its searching to 'Know BE-ing'.

Come to San Francisco. We are just fine here.

@blazed THE HARDEST AND THE EASIEST THING IN PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT The hardest and the easiest thing is to be 100% governed by 'in here' versus 'out there'. That's a trend in advanced Personal Development -- to get you to be more 'in here' oriented than 'out there' oriented. Once you have 'in here' figured out, 'out there' takes care of itself.

You don’t need the ‘Paradigm of Gravity or No Gravity’ to have ‘Gravity’. Try to make a distinction between thoughts and awareness. There’s a difference between the phenomenological experiences we call ‘Gravity’ and the Paradigm of Gravity. To say ‘Gravity exists’ is a ‘Belief’ about ‘Reality’. To see a book falling down is a phenomenological experience in an actual moment. BE-ing doesn’t need to respond to ‘why’. It’s the Mind that’s obsessed with ‘why’. And we create all these stories in attempts to ‘Know BE-ing’. But BE-ing just is what it is. The Mind is neurotically running-around trying to put BE-ing into conceptual cubby-holes.

No. I think that would be a step backwards. This is not a playground. This is a learning place and a teaching place. There are plenty of other places to play around on the Internet.

Taking ‘we are all one’ literally is just another belief about BE-ing. Ditto for ‘You are Leo’ and ‘I am Leo’. It’s just more ‘Need to Know BE-ing’.

ENLIGHTENMENT IN A NUTSHELL There's a lot of notions about what Enlightenment is or is not -- and I think most of those notions aren't hitting Enlightenment directly on the nose. Enlightenment is already with you. You just need to go through a process to unsee a lot of things to see it. You're not gaining anything you don't already have with Enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a launchpad into La La Land. Enlightenment is BE-ing in the moment without pre-judgments or pre-expectations. Enlightenment is going from 'need to know BE-ing' to BE-ing. Now, countless Paradigms that you're clinging to will fall away in this process -- because what's gonna happen is you're gonna see that you've created all these filters on top of BE-ing with the Mind in the form of 'Beliefs' about Reality. What you're gonna find is that both 'Beliefs' and 'Reality' are both orthogonal to BE-ing. And actually you're gonna find that 'Beliefs' and 'Reality' are both Paradigms: The Paradigm of Belief and the Paradigm of Reality, respectively -- and neither one has anything AT ALL to do with BE-ing. So, Enlightenment is kinda like peeling an onion back with all the layers of paradigms that must be transcended to totally transcend 'need to know BE-ing'. And then you can just BE without all those thought-story filters. But Enlightenment is already right there -- it's not something that must be found -- it's something that must be uncovered under a shit-pile of other Mind-created beliefs and paradigms. And, Enlightenment is a beautiful thing. It's so beautiful that I feel compelled to work on it for a long time. And I feel compelled to teach too, because I find that my voice is a unique voice among the voices talking about Enlightenment. And I find it worthwhile to add my 2 cents to that conversation. But, Enlightenment is killer, make no mistake about it. It takes balls to go through process because of what it can do to your life. It can turn your life upside-down and inside-out. And that's because when you stop clinging to the Paradigm of Self -- lots of systems that you've created and developed on your life will be impacted by that. You're gonna stop doing unauthentic shit as that Paradigm of Self dies in you. But the thing is you're already doing that -- it's just that you've been programmed with a layer of Need to Know BE-ing with accompanying Beliefs and Paradigms that identify you with that Paradigm of Self. And you're constantly trying to pre-judge BE-ing and pre-expect things from BE-ing. It's like being religious, right -- you think God is there to serve you. Then you find out there is no God, and you're like f*ck! Enlightenment is kinda the same thing -- but with regard to Beliefs and Paradigms about BE-ing. All those are gonna fall away for ya -- and that's a BIG f*ck. So, Enlightenment comes at a cost -- the 'Paradigm of Self or No Self' goes down the toilet -- as well as all other Paradigms or Beliefs about 'BE-ing'. Forget about Need to Know BE-ing and just BE. But the Mind has nothing to do now, see. It's wildly flailing it's tentacles about to try to grasp onto some thought -- but there's nothing for it to grasp onto -- because you can't un-explode the grenade once you transcend the 'Paradigm of Need to Know BE-ing or No Need to Know BE-ing'.

Why do we need the word 'God'? It's just a distraction.

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.