Joseph Maynor

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  1. 21 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    @Hampus I don't really subscribe to the idea that you should move to a higher city in order to develop yourself.

    The environment that you're in affects your whole life.  You're stewing in your environment soaking all of it in.  One of the best and easiest things you can do in your personal/ interpersonal development work is to optimize your setting (change where you live).  I wouldn't discount this.  Setting is huge.  Every city that I've traveled to had a kind of controlling theme or vibe that will program you if you stay there long enough.  So, you wanna be conscious of that programming and consciously choose/change your environment (where you live).


  2. 9 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

    Again, this is part true and part false.

    There is no such thing as "the natural way of doing things". Technology is always advancing. Technology is part of nature. You cannot undo technological advance. Digital reality will only grow stronger and stronger. VR socialization will soon be a big thing. Through VR socialization you will be able to make friends across the whole global, not just your local neighborhood. Digital actually allows us to transcend the limits of physicality. Think about it. That's why digital is to valuable. It's God-like.

    Socrates believed philosophy should not be written but only spoken because writing would corrupt the mind. Why did he believe this? Because writing was a new invention in his day and he was set in his ways.

    This is a good post.  I guess it depends on what your objectives are in life.  But if you're an explorer who likes to reside at the very tip of Evolution, this is where things are headed.


  3. 9 minutes ago, see_on_see said:

    Skype? VR? Come on guys. That's some sad shit right there. Not to say online interaction is bad per se, but it's not even in the same damn ballpark. 

    I think you have a opinion that might be closing you down to possibilities that are good.  See, this is why you gotta factor in Evolution and be at the tip of that.  Evolution means that you are comfortable with change, novelty, innovation, exploration, etc.  


  4. 17 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Experience is not experience. The very notion of experience is dualistic and corrupted by ego.

    You could take experience to be the Actual too.  This is why Metaphysics breaks down regarding attempts to capture Being like a butterfly in a net.  What is that which takes?  Is it not the Mind?


  5. You need a strategy to move yourself up the Emotional Scale -- this is part of what we might call Emotional Mastery Work.

    Look at where revenge is on the scale.   Don't feel bad if you're not good at Emotional Mastery work.  We can put together systems and strategies to get much better at this skill than we are.  This is mastering the skill of "Forcing Your Mood".  Leo talks about this in his Blueprint* (see link below).

    Emotional Scale.jpg

    *Leo's Blueprint

    https://www.actualized.org/blueprint


  6. 3 hours ago, Commodent said:

    Digital communication has very few to none of the benefits associated to being social. It's like porn vs. actual sex. It's not the real thing. There has been several studies on this, showing that digital communication doesn't really activate the brain regions associated with being social. Real-life interaction is so much more than just an exchange of words.

    I say build both.  I'm just trying to note the limiting-belief in our collective consciousness/unconsciousness that online community building doesn't count as social activity.  Sure it does!  Huge social activity.  I'm talking with people online all day long.  And I also want to have some real relationships in my life too. You can do both, see.  We can walk and chew gum at the same time.  It's not one to the exclusion of the other -- we can and most of us probably should do both.  Don't feel ashamed of your online relationship connections, they're a bonafide part of your social life and your social activity.  Own it!

    Video on point to watch:

     


  7. Leave Shinzen Young alone.  He is fortunate to be one person among us to be able to give something back to the world.  Be tactful.  You take shots at people so easily.  Reverse that.  Try to avoid taking shots at people: Err on that side.  That's a good single-principle strategy point that you can work with for increasing your social maturity.  This is Interpersonal Development work.  You gotta mediate that sharp edge.

    Videos on point to watch:

     


  8. 5 minutes ago, zeroISinfinity said:

    Apparent fragmentation if you want me to put it correctly. 

    How about fragmentation AND no fragmentation?  You like paradox?  Most people don't yet like paradox.  Most people are stuck in the Paradigm of Belief.  Paradox keeps the Mind from locking and blocking you within beliefs by keeping your Mind open and in its place.  Paradoxes are not beliefs, they're tools to keep the Mind from assuming its beliefs are Being.  The Tao that can be Named is Not the Eternal Tao.


  9. 13 minutes ago, Aakash said:

    @zeroISinfinity Let me phrase like this. 

    Can you become more loving than you already are ? 

    Isn't this kind of a dick-measuring contest re-framed as "I'm more loving than you are"?   This is an Ego boost, no?   This is Virtue Signaling.  This is what the Ego-Mind does when it wants to elevate itself relative to other Egos.  I call this positioning yourself near the top of the Totem Pole of Egos.  The Ego-Mind routinely uses Knowledge Signaling and Virtue Signaling for this purpose.  The Ego always wants to think, "I've got a bigger dick than you!"  See?  The Egoic dick-measuring contest/system plays itself out in so many, and even paradoxical, ways.  I call this the Totem Pole of Egos where your Ego is positioning itself to be as high up as you can on that pole.


  10. 17 minutes ago, zeroISinfinity said:

    Your ignorance. 

    Doesn't it make strategic sense for you to worry about removing your own ignorance before trying to remove other people's ignorance?  Why impose yourself in that way on other people's lives if you're busily designing and building your own life?  This is like not driving your own car well yet worrying about correcting the driving of all the drivers on the road.  If you're standing around worrying about what other people are doing, you're not busy enough with your own work.


  11. 8 minutes ago, Aakash said:

    @Joseph Maynor it’s difficult to explain but it’s not loving it because it exists. It’s loving it as it exists. 

    When you have it, you don't need to talk about it, and you don't need to feel triggered that someone thinks differently from you about it.  You have it!  There's no insecurity there about it.  Now you can go live your life and focus on the next thing you want but don't yet have.  You're not obsessed with things you have, you're obsessed with things you want but don't yet have.  You can always tell what people don't yet have but want because it's what they're currently obsessed about and yammering about and trying to be right about.  


  12. 4 minutes ago, Inliytened1 said:

    You would need an awakening to Oneness.  You could still do it but you would be tricking yourself the entire time.

    What about worrying about what you need?  I'm fine.  You need me to be like you.  See?  This stuff is tricky!  Tricky tricky!  The Ego-Mind wants everybody to be like me so I get to feel right, safe and secure, and feel more comfortable in the world.