Joseph Maynor

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    10 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Is a bird outside in nature free or not?

    Seems free, but it is also extremely limited.

    It's important to understand the limits of a bird. It would be madness to try to ask the bird to solve calculus equations. Likewise it would be madness to try to ask a human to hatch an egg.

    What tells you you are a human?  What tells you you have limitations?  Why dwell on either label?  Isn't it better to just go out there and do what you want to do with your life?  Get after it!

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    1 hour ago, AncestorOfAisle6 said:

    @Joseph Maynor

    What does teal feel like?

    Liberation from the shackles of white-knuckle clinging to Paradigms of Truth and Paradigms of Metaphysics.  Putting the Mind in its place.  Doing the Mind without letting the Mind do you.  Metaphysics goes from being the Truth at Turquoise and Coral to being a set of more or less useful set of tools (paradigms/lenses) at Teal.

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    The 10 Elements of High Industriousness

    (1) High Energy

    (2) Task Punchlist (Tasks are Concrete & Specific Actionable Steps)

    (3) Immunity to Fear and Limiting-Beliefs

    (4) Momentum Coming from Regular Disciplined Practice

    (5) No Addictions (Temperate)

    (6) Mentality of Just Get Busy (Just Do It)

    (7) No Distractions

    (8) Game Plan Driven (Objective-focused)

    (9) Low Comfort Mentality

    (10) Maximum Positive Motivation

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    13 minutes ago, Conrad said:

    @Joseph Maynor ''You need to realize that God has no limits -- and embody this.  God laughs at the Mind's beliefs and emotions.''

    I see that you accept that God exists now and isn't just a concept. What a miracle (jk). Very good. :)

    All that's just scaffolding for me to motivate myself to do what I know I should be doing but am too much of a lazy p*ssy to do

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    2 hours ago, SOUL said:

    People are white knuckle clinging to their conceptual beliefs using every form of mental masturbation reasoning to justify it, that is zen devilry.

    It's not the person, a person isn't the 'devil', it's the attachment to the conceptual beliefs that is makyo.

    With Christianity the 'devil' is the personification of evil, it isn't an actual person, it's the personification.

    Both of these are creations of imagination and don't exist unless they are empowered by belief.

    It seems some people conflate the two and call people who are trapped by zen devil as the personification of that trap themselves.

    If one uses conceptual dualism to teach it results in more dualism, it doesn't transcend dualism.

    Nice.

  20. Posted · Edited by Joseph Maynor

    I've always kinda looked at politics as a way for people to focus on something other then fixing their own problems.  It's a way of distracting yourself and blaming others.  Everybody and their mother is an expert on politics -- yet few are an expert on optimizing their own lives.  That doesn't surprise me.  Politics is a sort of Monday morning quarterbacking or back seat driving.  It's a way to feel important without having to do anything or be held accountable for anything.  You get to feel big like you're solving big problems, but it's a façade.  You ain't doing shit but talking.  No action.  Never any action.  Anybody can shoot off at the mouth.  It's sort of the same reason why people like sports as sports fans -- it's a way to feel special without really having to do anything.  It's a flimsy way to attempt to socially elevate yourself or draw attention to yourself or make yourself appear more special than you're currently able to demonstrate or achieve in your own life.

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    6 hours ago, kieranperez said:

    I’ll keep that in mind next time you rant at Leo and about the quality of the forum and how you think he doesn’t take feedback. 

    I've got bigger fish to fry.  My concerns now are very different.  At that time I thought I was doing the right thing.  Now I think I'm doing the right thing.  I think I'm made an improvement in focus.  Pick your battles.  Make every point you score count toward moving you toward your most sought-after objectives.

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    4 minutes ago, kieranperez said:

    Dude. Be here to learn and not be an ideologue. 

    Materialism is just flat out untrue. IQ at the end is but one lines of intelligence and is largely not even that significant this day in age. Much less so an indicator of how intelligent someone is. If you’re gonna speak from a “scientific” POV you can’t just sweep the implication of all the shattering evidence and implications done WITHIN science that debunks materialism. 

    Is it a coincidence that the most breakthrough revolutionary scientists were deeply interested in mysticism? That what mysticism and the core of all scientific discoveries point to that which is infinite, deeply interconnected, oneness with all that we call reality, that 0 and infinitity is the same thing, etc.? 

    Notice how you’re not interested in being open.

    Watch your own energy and external focus.  The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.