1- Don 't believe your thoughts 2- 6:09 Turn toward the mysterious and dont Turn away 3- 9:19 Question all beliefs (similar to #1 but more active): why do I believe that ? 4- 12:14 Just relax and let all experience overtake you

@Frari747

9 ай бұрын

Its not possible to awake by watching videos or reading books ( Thinking) Its a bless. But in the end after several lifes you will reach the ocean. Coming from the highest mountains water will find the way . Without any effort.

#1-you are not who you think you are. #2-by direct experience start determining what you are not.

Whatever is happening, is the path to enlightenment. - Pema Chodron

@mikelisteral7863

9 ай бұрын

deeper and deeper acceptance of what is now

"I don't know" can be applied to everything. I don't know what I want, I don't know who I am, I don't know what will make me happy. I just don't know.

@Macrocompassion

3 ай бұрын

Can you be sure that you don't know? This is dual--it is an oxymoron. Awakening presumably deletes this too! Confusion is premature to nothing. To what?

In three words: Rest as awareness Compliments of Adyashanti Very similar to your rest as the I don't know, the Mystery. 🙏

Turn towards the mysterious and don't turn away is brilliant!! I'm definitely going to practicing this!!!

This pointing is phenomenal but I can't overestimate the value of going back to listen to all the episodes that ZDogg and Angelo posted at least a year ago.

Freedom from belief/disbelief is bliss

@Macrocompassion

3 ай бұрын

When ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise!

So relevant for what I'm going through atm. Crippling morning anxiety. I do think it is partly due to ssri withdrawal but nonetheless, the fear isn't coming from nowhere. It is enormously challenging to allow these intensely uncomfortable feelings but I find that allowing them, talking to them, seeing that they're rooted in my inner child and speaking to my inner child has been so soothing. Yes, loving these emotions. Hard to do when in the midsts of a wave but it's really the only way...

Or in Nisargadatta's words: Your Sadhana is To Be But as you say, in the end they all link up.

* notice that consciousness/awareness is prior to thought * investigate your self

The practise should be as simple as possible but be applied as consistently as possible. Adyashanti also said something like this. Thanks 👍

I'm so glad you answered this person's question. I love love love this video response.

❤ love all simple guides, but still tripping over zero distance 😂 when I close my eyes I totally get what you mean but eye open and noticing that I am sitting on a chair can’t convince myself zero distance between me and the chair 😂 but thank you for all your guidance

@cps_Zen_Run

Жыл бұрын

@1919, look into the reflection of a mirror. Objects appear separate from one another and at a distance. Yet tap and you see no distance. All appears in the mirror. All appears as a modification of Consciousness. All made of the same “stuff” including you. IMHO.

@HiluT

Жыл бұрын

@@cps_Zen_Run I like the mirror example, but when we do inquiry “I am not that” what are we saying? Aren’t we making a distinction between forms?

Hi angelo. Wouldnt it be better to say " don't believe thoughts" rather than " don't believe your thoughts". As the first sentence presumes that thoughts are 'yours', but a huge part of awakening is that thoughts aren't yours, they arise on their own. When they are seen to all ariseon their own, the belief in them can automatically loosen. Rather than trying not to believe them.

Thanks Angelo - this was great! Pithy and to the point. I’m still looking at a belief that says ‘something is going to happen’ so this helped.

A seamless whole😊❣

This is gold thahnks.

Your first pointing in itself is a blessing to hear if the heart is ready to receive 💙 At the end, question even the questionner, the true intent behind his question, and as you would most probably say,.. until neither the questionner nor his questioning remains.

Thank you for this, so needed. Still get lost in thought after years post awakening.

So helpful! It answered my question about how to balance questioning beliefs, which goes into thought, with the necessity to disbelieve thoughts. I was getting stuck in that wash cycle!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I had a major glimpse after the first approach. I have it many times, when I realize all my struggles of the past week, the great deep suffering, is all just thoughts. And when I realize its not me, I laugh uncontrollably. This type of awakening usually is not a permanent shift, but I feel like I am inching closer. I think its paradoxical in that I know all my problems in life are not real and yet I also do need to become the person who can solve them in order to relax into true presence. Sometimes I feel guilty letting go because it is as if I am also ignoring problems in my life, yet in order for me to be the one who can solve these problems I need to be able to let go otherwise I am constantly seeking and unable to make progress in my external life. All of life seems to be a paradox.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful. Keep at it :)

@RamonNZ

8 ай бұрын

You feel guilty letting go? This mustnn't be a very high priority then. What problems are there that need your attention so badly? That is literally your perspective I.e. personal delusion. It's similar to mine. I've got so much to do. But I don't have anything to do, just stop and give my time to the one thing that actually matters.

Really excellent pointers. I spontaneously turned to and recognized "the mysterious" (or the "enormous" or "awesome," another two imperfect descriptions) when contemplating the well-worn question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" and marinating in it many times (and letting the words of the question fade away while staying solely with the mystery [sic] and wonder the question evokes, at least for me--other queries or prompts may work better for someone else). This "turning to the mystery" (which is nothing in particular, just extraordinarily ordinary) has been part of my practice ever since.

@Macrocompassion

3 ай бұрын

What do we mean by nothing?

@martinspiering5817

3 ай бұрын

@@MacrocompassionWhich "nothing" are you referring to here--the nothing versus something I initially explored or the "nothing in particular"? I used both "nothings" rather loosely, so my apologies if that prompted your question, but I could try to clarify.

@Macrocompassion

3 ай бұрын

kindly do so @@martinspiering5817

Perfect example here of no such thing as a stupid question. Thanks to you and thanks to the questioner for inspiring the video.

Mysterious... Let's say I'm listening to a good pop song. It stirs emotions, it seems to open my heart. It also makes me strongly long for something big and unspecific. It can make me bored with what I was doing until I heard it. I may listen to it over and over to stay in that longing. What is it? I always thought of it as a desire/infatuation. But I wonder, if something there comes right from the Source, even if not in a quiet/content way. Been thinking about it for a long time. It's subtle but powerful and has a sense of deep dissatisfaction, longing for something Other.

@silverhandle

6 ай бұрын

If there is a sense of longing for something, it is you longing to stay as You. Also, thoughts and emotions do not stop, even after full and permanent awakening. It is just included in the space that is “You”, not the other way around. You don’t get lost in them anymore!

@TheTaurus16

6 ай бұрын

Longing for something = longing to stay as you...I wouldn't expect anything less paradoxical from you guys :) Hey, I just checked out "Coccolino Deep - Before Sunrise" from your playlist. Has a lot of trance to it which always make me feel something bigger and with that... the longing. If there is true joy (like techno), then there is some Source to it - these are my two non-dualistic cents. @@silverhandle

My wife says I have a really short pointer and like you I said “don’t believe your thoughts.” Then I realised she was talking about my dog. My pointer is short because she’s still a puppy.

Thank you! Super helpful… this morning I sat for an hour and had a stance of “thoughts were just chemical processes in my brain” and kept returning to present moment.. yet shorter/less “thoughts” would be just don’t believe them…which is also a thought tho…? Round I go 😂..

I really like the idea of focusing on not believing your thoughts, I’ve heard that elsewhere of course, but need to take it to heart

When you trying to expound dharma but your phone is about to die 🤣

How am I aware of a thought? In what way is a thought perceived? How can I determine if I’ve had one? I am not aware of how it appears, but it seems to arise within awareness. Which sense perceives a thought? Where is the thought? It presents as a voice without volume and a visual without an image; is it entirely unreal?

Great video, thanks for making it.

Well said good sir🙏

So Helpful ❤ THANK YOU

Great stuff. 2a Trust the process.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

10 ай бұрын

Welcome!

“Don’t believe any of your thoughts” is absolutely profound, both from an awakening standpoint and from a practical standpoint. Nervous about an upcoming interaction? Don’t believe the thoughts surrounding it. Dependent on a particular outcome? Don’t believe thoughts telling you you need a thing. Incredibly freeing. Even the seemingly positive thoughts can cause problems (“I’m a good person”, “I can do this”) - buying into them is a distortion / contraction of the actuality of what is actually occurring. (On the other hand, experiencing them nonjudgmentally without buying into them is experiencing their actuality). Thoughts seem to be fed on belief in them too. Consider someone on a street corner trying to tell you the world is ending or what have you. If you make it perfectly clear that you simply don’t believe them, whatever they say… they’ll give up, and look for someone else, and that interaction will dissipate quickly. Anyways, just wanted to comment that I’ve seen huge benefit from putting that first pointer into practice. Thanks 🙏

Love it

What beliefs am i holding onto right now?

So helpful, thank you, Angelo!! I want to watch again and again, for understanding; is this the intellect trying to do the opposite of this teaching you shared?

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Number 1 and number 4 take me into the world of the real.

Number one is essentially Ramana's enquire with every thought ...

I have heard thought described as another sense, like hearing or seeing. Can you talk about how this impacts the "practice" of not believing the mind?

What is it when you are no longer in your head, and thoughts have pretty much stopped?

@ptanji

Жыл бұрын

This. But Don’t believe those thoughts either.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Жыл бұрын

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This is good for meditation and going to sleep. We as humans need to have thoughts that we believe in. We need to plan things out. We don't want to get into accidents. I couldn't do this most of my day.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Жыл бұрын

seems like it eh? Turns out to be not true, tho it takes a while for that to dawn. Also \m/ Maiden

@silverhandle

6 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Yes you can do this! You can do this while still planning and not getting into accidents :) You just don’t get fooled anymore. You can still use your mind.

@silverhandle

6 ай бұрын

Yes you can do this! You can do this while still planning and not getting into accidents :) You just don’t get fooled anymore. You can still use your mind.

🙏🙏🙏

Hey Angelo I bought your book and I’ve been doing self inquiry and disidentifying from thoughts consistently for about a week now and I’m starting to get this borderline overwhelming anxiety. Are you sure this is supposed to happen? It feels like I’m going to perish.

@universalspeck

Жыл бұрын

Yes and

@kas8131

Жыл бұрын

He talks about the fear barrier a lot

But if I didn't believe a thought. I wouldn't have thought it.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Жыл бұрын

did you think it or did it merely appear?

Oh boi "don't believe a single thought" is a great beginning for a great great confusion 😄

@martinspiering5817

Жыл бұрын

Yep, also because this strategy logically should also include "Don't believe a thought that says, 'Don't believe a thought.'" Paradox and confusion lurk everywhere once thoughts take over (or are deployed out of necessity). Obviously, thoughts (and beliefs) can be very useful, especially in daily life, but when it comes to recognizing true nature (suchness, "isness," pristine awareness, etc.), they're of no help at all (and they can become a source of great burden when one always gets captured by them). The technique is very simple and powerful, but it takes some time to get the hang of it ime.

Here's another three words: Just let go. Let go absolutely. Simple, but not necessarily easy.

#2 is a little difficult to understand. Toward what mystery?

Any tips for unearthing those unconscious beliefs we may be operating under?

@mikelisteral7863

9 ай бұрын

watch your feelings. they reflect the beliefs

You forgot to mention where you got that shirt

I keep falling in and out of non-dual practice and it's frustrating. Sometimes I'm completely in line with this and I meditate and do self inquiry and get good glimpses here and there. But other times I don't do any of that and I just day dream constantly, and I enjoy it very much. I'm almost addicted to creative thinking. But this all seems contrary to what is being said about letting go of thoughts and just be present with what is. I feel a bit confused...

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Жыл бұрын

the key is to investigate the one that seems to be in or out of anything

Choose Jesus This is a battle for for doul. Jonathan klack

Is focus also an illusion? When something is (sensually) "in focus", is that just a kind of theatre in that sense field to give the illusion of a focus (by providing a "blur" to everything else)?

Don't believe your thoughts. This leads to the distractions and manipulation that so many fall victim to. Instead, observe your own thought patterns and behaviors and the behaviors of society and try to find a single catalyst that explains all of it. There is only one cause, and when you find it, your purpose and awakening are delivered to you. Don't attach negative behaviors to people, attach them to the environment. Reality and that environment are perfect. Our inability to comprehend that perfection is nothing more than a bit of missing context that's revealed when we find the source catalyst. Find the source and you see the perfection. This reality was made for you and me, and we are one of the same. Forgiveness is the first step. Forgiveness then evolves into unconditional love. If you want to find your awakening, take care of yourself. Get healthy physically and mentally. Physical health is simple but not easy. It requires good nutrition and exercise. Mental health comes from serving others, and you serve others best when you're physically healthy. Actions that don't serve your health or others will not serve you. "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." Logic is what enables you to understand the way your own actions effect yourself through others. Wisdom is what enables you to use that understanding to help yourself by helping others. A leader doesn't give a man a fish, a leader teaches a man to fish. We all have the same purpose: to serve each other. We exist to find our unique expression of that purpose. All I can do is point you in the right direction. Only you can find your unique expression.

Any chance you can share the source of the bg music? 🙂

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Жыл бұрын

I synthesize it all

Angelo, consider first thing about thoughts, its valid ONLY when I desperately want to wake up and nothing else in the world? What I mean, for example, if I sit quietly and some thought arise "I need to plan my project, because if not, I will lose money" or "I need to prepare some gift for my daughter" or "I was so rude with my friend today, how I can be more aware with her" or "maybe I just bypassing world and responsibility with this just_sitting stuff" or whateva.... So, all this types of thoughts just ignore and continue to observe? Or there is time for life plannin and also time for deeds and world and we really can mix it with lay life? Thank you

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

10 ай бұрын

Ignore all of them while meditating or inquiring. Don't push them away tho, just don't get entangled

So, if I clearly see that there is no space, that it is just interpretation, and that there is no separation between objects, and no separation between perceptions and me, and thoughts and objects and me - this is it? And everything just appears to be? There is no movement, it appears to be moving?

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Жыл бұрын

That sounds good, is it your immediate experience ongoing? Is there reactivity in any situations? Avoidance? Is there a sense of universality? Self (even a fully merged or infinite self? Is there perception?

@AwareZen

Жыл бұрын

​@@SimplyAlwaysAwakeThank you for your reply! ❤🙏 Described can be lasting while sitting and walking, but when talking with people it breaks down, and autopilot turns on with reactivity. If I sit or walk after, or sometimes even drive car and relax it comes back. If I try to investigate, what is happening, then there is sense that somebody is investigating in a way that thoughts sound personal, but it seems that I can't put a finger where I am. Like I could be anything in visual field. If I am not investigating what is happening, than there is no sense of anybody. Just seeing, or hearing, but no sense of what is seen or heard. And when writing this, I'm 100% separete me. 😂

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Жыл бұрын

@@AwareZen This is very good. Keep doing what you are doing (and not doing) and those moments where the clarity falters will become fewer and fewer. Can deconstruct even moments of conversation into anatta / radiant clarity :) Takes some time

@AwareZen

Жыл бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thank you for your kindness! 💖

I have been practising not to believe thoughts but not very diligently. But my doubt is that some enlightened teachers say that it has nothing to do with thoughts in fact realisation is an energetic shift. I was wondering whether there was any connection between not believing thoughts leading to opening of this contracted energy. I wanted your take on this

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Жыл бұрын

there is a direct connection of course. But you even have to let go of this analysis ;)

@santoshmangat9221

Жыл бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thank you

Primul

Consciousness is an experience at zero distance, with no abiding reality!🤣🤣😂😂😛😍😇🤬😈💥

So... do I stop believing thoughts, or IN thoughts? Many thoughts seem to require thinking to stop believing them... I mean, how do I stop believing something like "I am a man, men are supposed to do this or that", when men are actually supposed to do that? Yes, it's a social construct, and I myself may not believe that's true, but still...very confusing

What does let it overtake you mean 🤔

@birgit8996

Жыл бұрын

what if you don't need to understand anything, don't want or don't want anything in particular….does life stop then?….does it go on?…..what happens?……try it!!!!!!You will never “understand “,which takes over…..but it is❣️

@gethighskills7929

Жыл бұрын

@@birgit8996 insightful. Thanks 😊

What does it mean to believe something? Like literally literally, what is it?

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

Жыл бұрын

What is your experience if it?

@James-mk8jp

Жыл бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake distortion in the sense fields, almost like a "cooking" or "baking" of whatever raw stuff comes first

@TPot1222

Жыл бұрын

I wonder the same. What forms or solidifies a belief in something? If I’m not sure how to create a belief it is difficult to avoid creating more

Why should it be simple?

I feel attacked! I've been having dzogchen vs zen thoughts all day.

For me ita like yes ok they are thoughts. But collective thoughts, that have some relativ3 truth to the are hard to dismiss as thoughts. Like for me, im aging, and aging women arent really that high of value to men or society. I know i make it important to be liked by men. But. Hey, im still not awakened and i really would love to share my life with a man. So. This is where the dilemma is. 😂

not to believe anything and yet health of body comes up while eating or exercising etc is “ good for the body” etc so let that go too?? Resistance noticed in letting go of this “ concern for survival??”

#1 where’s the awakening path end. Death ???

It doesn't get clearer 🤌