Mastering Your Mental Lodge: Freemason-Inspired Mindfulness

Freemasonry-inspired self-reflection and mental discipline practices are pretty great! Learn how adopting roles like the warden or Tyler can enhance focus and eliminate distractions. Perfect for those looking to fortify their mental landscapes and discover a deeper concentration.Key Points• Use lodge roles for self-reflection• Inner/Outer guards help focus• Deacons symbolize data transfer• Tiling the lodge equals mindfulness• Roles go beyond administrativeBest Quotes00:01 - 00:22• "More often than not, when we're talking about Freemason and Lease on this channel, we're using the lodge not only as a collection of the members present, ready to do work, but we're using the concept of the lodge as an analog for your mental landscape."00:43 - 00:49• "And so this is based on the Pennsylvania ritual, at least for almost all of our examples."01:18 - 01:22• "Senior warden's responsible for making sure everyone gets paid for the outcomes of their efforts."01:27 - 01:33• "You can use those as mental constructs for you to evaluate kind of what's going on in your world."02:00 - 02:11• "The deacons as well also serve as messengers. They carry the right kind of data, sensory feedback information from sort of one function to the next."02:42 - 02:53• "When you sit down and, and Wilmshurst talks about this in the meaning of masonry, when you sit down to reflect or sit down to study, one of the first things you need to do is eliminate distractions."03:00 - 03:21• "So you go through the process of tiling a lodge, you go through the process of essentially setting the guards on your attention and making sure that you're gonna be in an environment where you're not gonna be distracted, you're not gonna be disrupted from your study, same thing's true with pretty much every other role that you have in the craft."Creators & Guests Brian Mattocks - Host ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ Thanks to our monthly supporters Tim Dedman Jorge Click here to view the episode transcript.