Zen has taught me a few things. One, practice is enlightenment. Take a practice like counting the breath. I like to think of it as breathing the count or becoming the breath. Give absolutely everything to this one breath. Drop all agendas, plans, expectations etc. and give everything to your practice again and again. Two, we can’t make awakening happen, awakening or life has its own agenda and timing. With that said, meditative absorption or Samadhi as they say in Zen, can make us ripe for Awakening. Don’t make this a goal though. Samadhi is a natural by-product of right practice. And three, don’t push or pull on thoughts. Recognize them and comeback to your practice. I will also add that the body and breath directly affect our state of mind. If the body is deeply relaxed and the breath is deep in your belly, the mind will be relatively calm as well. Working with the body, posture, and breath is all great practice. And lastly, over time, you won’t be able to differentiate between practice and non-practice. When you get up off your chair or cushion, practice does not cease. This is one thing I’m still trying to clarify in my own life. Integration can be quite difficult at times. That’s why there are hundreds of post-awakening Koans. The refining never stops.

....jesus...how many-many-mnay years have I been incorporating more and more concepts into my framework! Thank you so much Angelo for sharing all your brilliant wisdom with us. Love, Cathy in Ireland. 😊❤

Perfect. No bs, just straight talking. ❤

I don't really know why since I can't explain it, but one of my favourite videos you've ever done. ❤🙏🏻

@stacysimmons887

4 ай бұрын

This tickled my funny bone. 😂

You should be on Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal.

For me, it was about experiencing. It was an event and a huge revelation.

When you mention "awakening," I find myself occasionally uncertain about whether you're referring specifically to the initial realization of truth, preceding any significant shadow work, or if you're encompassing the entire journey from the awakening itself to the pursuit of truth, navigating through the stages of shadow work, and ultimately reaching the point of liberation. Maybe we could use another word to define the 'journey' after awakening to avoid confusion (at least just for me lol). Or am I getting this wrong? Thank you.

Found this really comforting somehow.Thanks

This one is so helpful, the mind can conceptualize every message.

Very clear and to the point

Well said🔥

I've got that same tripod you are rockin in the background. Love that thing ❤

Thank you for this. I realize now that I held onto the idea of what awakening “should” look like, but that’s really just another story.

Speaking of default mode network, Greg Weber guest!!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

4 ай бұрын

Gary?

@JesusChrist-vp4qk

4 ай бұрын

lol yes Gary @@SimplyAlwaysAwake

🎯🎯🎯 I always wanted to know the whole truth, no matter how, but was too "lazy" to follow any tradition (never liked traditions), so I just take what resonates the most. God is principal, but I just have to do the "job" now!!! 🦈 Thank you sooo much for everything 💛❤✌️

Happy Holidays to everyone may the source of what is love guide and bless us all. Thanks for sharing and clarifying the truth, much gratitude for all your video's. ♥😶🙏🎯 ☮

The good news is that at some point, there comes the realization that it's all "play." Mixed news: sometimes the play has you lose an arm, a leg, and the person closest to you. My heart goes out to anyone struggling. ❤🫂

This 👏🏼 I got so caught up on what THIS should look like I missed it. Expectations need to be thrown out the window. There is no control of this.

Hi Angelo, for some months I ve been living in a no-man land like state where seeking dropped but the coin still didnt, there's clarity when hearing this stuff but somehow the mind and heart are still "waiting". I was wondering if you could speak about this, or give some advice on how to navigate it. Great video by the way, Merry christmas to you all!!!!

Solid pointers 👉🙏

A ride on a shooting star and space junk is falling away clearing the path to a clarity of now. Thanks Angelo for your what awakening is not!🌟

I lost my mind trying to find it and that's a good thing.

Wow this video came at the right time

i fucking love this, cutting to the core

Thank you Angelo❤ If ever you're looking for a video idea, something very different and interesting you could consider might be a simple silent transmission video of you silently looking into the camera! Just a thought 😊

@Ryan-Dempsey

4 ай бұрын

Too dangerous because the ai in the camera would have an awakening and then we'll all be fucked!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

4 ай бұрын

😂

@buddhasdojo9368

4 ай бұрын

​@@Ryan-Dempsey😂😅😂😅

Good list. Though it could really be an infinite list of what enlightenment isn’t.

Raw, stark. Demolishes pretty much all major anchors. What remains then? Also “bunnies & crunchy granolas” 😂

How do I trust my self outside of ego control to be the kind of person the ego wishes to be. When surrendering you're trusting reality to be the doer, the ego has trouble believing it will be the right person for humanity and everyone else

Actuality ❣️

@nat998

4 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas, Birgit! 🎅🎄❤️ I hope you have a blessed, and wonderful day! 🤗🎉 "Actuality" is the perfect word! Actuality of being! 💛

@birgit8996

4 ай бұрын

@@nat998 Thank you for the wishes❣️Have a wonderful Christmas too🌲

@nat998

4 ай бұрын

@@birgit8996Thank you so much! 🥰🎄🙏🏻

I've ever thought was like "be in the Spirit " expression, we could imagine, and with the list of différents images your brain receive, a lot of images to deal with. How you explain something you feel, énergétique speaking with others images you don't have in your banque of information received as human? Vasteness, yeah. More or less

I was hoping that this video would address when someone can know for sure when they are fully awakened. You mentioned in one of your older videos that there are people that aren't but still think they are. How do we keep from ending up as one of those?

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

4 ай бұрын

Well if you think you are fully awakened you certainly are not 😂… it’s not like that.

@festral7509

4 ай бұрын

​@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I already know I'm not fully awakened. I don't literally mean "think" either. I'm asking later on how I can avoid ending up as one of those guys that fall under the delusion that they're done when they really aren't.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

4 ай бұрын

@@festral7509 1. Have a teacher that has walked this path ahead of you and will check you on your BS. 2. Remain humble. 3. Be authentic.

@festral7509

4 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thank you

Nice. Very nice.

❤Thank you ❤ it is what it is😂 but is there an end to the ‘uncomfort’?

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

4 ай бұрын

Yes 😁

@Bernd05

4 ай бұрын

i second that

@PatrickBronson

4 ай бұрын

If you seek to avoid discomfort, you will also avoid living in the present. For me, living in the present means there's no agenda and nothing to avoid. If I have discomfort in the present moment, that's what I will need to be with in order to stay present. If I seek to change my present state, I won't be present within myself.

What is sleep?

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Hey Angelo. In Matthew 7:7-8 it says “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Do you think it is helpful to ask ‘Reality’ to awaken me to my true nature? To ask for help from ‘beyond’ myself? I’m putting together a ‘prayer’ to ask Reality to reveal the Truth, and I would love to hear your opinion.

@denudata2001

4 ай бұрын

The simplicity of the "Holy Instant" (the two-step), which means shutting up-step 1-and enquiring of the Father or the Holy Spirit (your right Mind): “What is the truth here? In other words, separate and apart from whatever I think things mean, What is the truth here?” and then listening. Moving attention away from the ego thought stream (the small mind). Step 2 involves shifting from body identification to Mind identification. Shifting from the perception of yourself as the body you see, to the awareness of yourself that is the Mind, the conscious awareness in which your body, world and universe are being experienced. This is the simplicity. These are the only factors there are in the process of Awakening.

@pignut9361

4 ай бұрын

@@denudata2001 So to clarify - there’s no force ‘beyond’ or ‘behind’ or ‘pervading’ or ‘underpinning’ Reality, to which one can direct their intent, and ask for help in the pursuit of awakening. In other words, I am my own saviour, and it’s pointless praying?

@denudata2001

4 ай бұрын

@@pignut9361 If the I you refer to is the Self (Individuated Consciousness) then I agree. Once you understand that rearticulation (Awakening) is the act of God, and not the small self pursuing enlightenment, it becomes much easier. You become receptive, to be worked with.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

4 ай бұрын

Yes it is, and add "... and I'm willing to go through whatever I will have to go through, even if I don't want to," then be prepared to be unprepared :)))

@pignut9361

4 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thankyou, I will add that last line and I’ll let you know how it goes. Fingers crossed it is the year of awakening 🤞 I bet you get this a lot, but Thankyou for all the content you put out. When you speak, even though your looking at, and speaking to a camera, it feels as though your looking right into me, and your words are going through “me” to something beyond, it is very ‘direct’. I hope you have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🥳

I think those little laughs you do when talking about this feels like a pointer in itself.

Dear Angelo, what does "forgive them father for they know not what they do" mean? who is it being said too? to the mystery? have no reason to believe that, Jesus, was not an awakened being. so to whom or to what is that being said too? think I'm trying to work out that which cant be worked out but... is that, whatever substance, it is a huge trickster Angelo, that which creates? Why all this? also, thank you so much for your transmissions, removing illusion and revealing oneness. If blessings exist may they bestowed on you and everything internally. Thank you 🙏

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Ай бұрын

He’s pointing out that through delusion even those who carry out violent acts are innocent

@jagwilkhu8945

Ай бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake ♥

Is no longer caring about waking up a sign of progress? But wait, asking this question indicates I still care. It's an Inception loopdy-loop 🤯

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

4 ай бұрын

we... it depends how authentic the not caring any more is 😂😂😂

@jorghaltehreffkyan4190

4 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I still do practices, but I no longer expect to get to some end goal

Yeah I still have no idea what you were trying to get at

neti neti

"crunchy granola" 😂

@Ryan-Dempsey

4 ай бұрын

Don't forget the cupcakes and butterflies 😋

Doership: this doing and being oscillation happens. When feeling like a doer, be a doer, if being then be. When doer comes back, then do. Do be do be do be do be dooo beeee doooo. Big fat doobee.

@Ryan-Dempsey

4 ай бұрын

😂 it'll get itself done

The sum of world religions Buddha Jesus and all of the good and every other religion summed up to this video LOL you better believe! LOL if you don't you will

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