1- It's not conceptual 1:30 2- It's never in the future, it's right here 5:03 3- Some form of practice is necessary, inquiry of some sort is the key 10:35 4- Doubt is just a thought 14:30 5- Use different resources-Be aware of the cleverness of the ego who wants to stay intact 18:10

"As we start to relax into the sense fields, they begin to replace us." - Dropping the boom here Angelo 😆

@VeritableVagabond

5 ай бұрын

Such an amazing pointer.

Angelo, if patience were riches, you'd be a billionaire! Guiding someone as stubborn as a mule (that's me!), yet here I am... realizing there's nothing to get. I'm laughing at my own antics and deeply thankful for your enduring wisdom.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

that made me laugh... stubbornness is one form of sincerity and discernment

@RolandoVCNN

8 ай бұрын

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Interview Akilesh from the channel Sifting to the Truth!

From the book "I Am That": "Be aware of being conscious and seek the source of consciousness. That is all. Very little can be conveyed in words. It is the doing as I tell you that will bring light, not my telling you." That makes intuitive sense to me, but sometimes I think I'm kidding myself and it's all a head trip.

Love the music, Angelo

“Resistance is….futile.” The Borg were right.

You remember this drawing of an old lady, but if you see it differently, she is a beautiful young lady, and vice versa. If you see the one, you can't see the other for a while. But sometimes, you see them both at the same time, like seeing a paradox in its whole. The Ying-Yang symbol too, or even the batman symbol. OK. It is difficult to explain this awakening. Like, it is difficult to teach to swim by just talking. Until a person gets it himself. So you have to try without trying. That's funny. But It is like cutting out the middleman, which is the logical mind and surrender to the uncertainty of life. Normally, life is scary, without control or being prepared by experience and tricks to master the outside world and survive. So evolution gave us this tool. If we lived in a world without peril, it would be easier to let go. Like a baby, he isn't aware of the danger. Very trusting of his environment, which is love/his mama. Ok, imagine people can't move. Like a tree, they don't have an urge to do something or to go toward food or better places. They just wait what happens. Anyway, yes I know this is philosophy, just standing in the way of the way. Whatever. I am a very visual person, so I can see proportions, lines, don't get confused by moving targets, so seeing was for me an entry point. It is without need of words. Also gesturing and movements of my hands. It felt like holy movements. So I have a feel for all the Zen art, gardens, martial arts and so on. Naturally. Sorry I am rambling, it is simply impossible to explain an awakening state in words. But I learned a lot here. Also: transmission just by looking into the eyes of two enlawoken people, they talk with their eyes, and thought waves/aura. I always wanted to talk to another without speaking. That feels so good. And impossible to lye. But there is no shame, so it doesn't matter. Nobody to blame. So one has to trust, nothing bad happens if you let go of your defense and protection mechanism, which is the brain. Hope some of my words ring a bell. Please don't say: those are all concepts. DON'T DO THAT!. Well, I do what I want. I think for myself. Automatically now forms the opposite thought in my brain: "Try to be meek, try not to be so arrogant." The brain works like that. I was obsessed with cleanliness, is attracted and turn on by dirtiness. How weird. But all a discovery, how the brain really is working all the time, thought-contr-thoughts, looking for a solution, creating more complex answers and questions..

Of all the guides I’ve seen so far, you are the most clear and direct. I want to stay neutral but I have to acknowledge your influence.

The music with this message is incredible.

"Why are you trying to assign meaning to it" wise words from Angelo to me... urmm recently 😂

That part about doubt and the ego being sneaky, it’s so so true. Thanks for the reminder to get back to basics.

❤️🙏🌈... How about... Dropping every (conscious) intention... Every moment... (Except, of course, the intention to drop intention...that will fade away, with time...) So... dropping every recognized intention... including the intention to know/recognize/understand/evaluate... which are the base for all actions, starting with mental actions... thoughts, etc)...

Gratitude 🙏

I love that we dont have to understand it, figure it out or label it. Just let it be!

Ooooooooooo I listened to the most recent BatGap interview with Bob Harwood this morning. It's a great companion interview to this video.

I have watched this vid million times because I love the music in it so much 😮❤ I really want it!

Hi Angelo. I find that if I sit in the early hours of the morning that often I will begin to slide into dreamlike states while still conscious. I try to use these times for self enquiry or just observing how my sense of self and the dream imagery co arise and morph and change. I also enjoy occasional lucid dreams. I recall you mentioned in a previous video that the times around falling asleep are ripe for practicing meditation / Self Inquiry. Id love to hear more from you on this subject. Thanks for all your amazing videos and clear pointing!

Thanks for posting. The music for this one made me feel like I was watching Survivor. Definitely distracts from the message 🙂 edit: this was a really useful video, don't get me wrong..

Very very helpful and precise. Thank you so much. Much love. 🙏😇♥️🤗

Love it

Well said and helpful …my ego is the smartest 😏

I sent you an email yesterday asking the very question you answered in this video (synchronicity strikes!), so please ignore it, and thanks!

You couldn’t have been more clear and direct. Deepest gratitude for this one Angelo. 🙏

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I am so grateful for your effort. I feel you support. Thank you so much❤

What is it about a retreat that would help? What happens during a retreat?

Awaking is non conceptual. Some form of practice is needed, don't conceptualize, move your attention into being what is the sense of being you and stay there. Self inquiry, Who am I, Sohum or Ham sa. Doubt is just a thought, It's not working for me.. you can really believe this thought as if it is you, before awakening. It is just one thought. Use your resources, the Ego is in ancient collective. it knows your weakness!!! A retreat can help to open you, or a one on one teacher to find what you are avoiding, if you feel stuck. I love this awaken to your senses, sight, sound, smell, taste and imagine something i.e. a strawberry .....until you become your senses.

Thank you for this!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

love what your Zen teacher said, laughing away, and yep absolutely true as well, thanks brought smile and laughter to the day. Radical pointing, if only I could get it🤣,(adressed by the first point), many thanks, john

Amazing video, Angelo. Very helpful and practical. Thank you 🙏

#2 Now that I believe enlightenment/awakening is a thing, I don't need to study it for hours every day... rather just relax, stop worrying, watch my thoughts, meditate and stop day dreaming... try to be thoughtless and present?

Yes Yes! So very much appreciate this reminder you posted today. Gassho

I had a thought for those who can’t afford to go on an in-person retreat (like me Lol). If there exists (or I can try to make one) a PDF or some sort of DIY retreat instructions, just for us newbies who need guidance. I’m not suggesting that you create that, lol, but it would be nice if one existed. I would definitely follow along to give myself a weekend retreat… I’m sure I’m over thinking it! Maybe this is something I should explore 🤔

I have the suspicion that accepting that consciousness somehow chooses when doubt arises takes away some of the sense of it, seeming like there are two sides at war. That would mean something was more powerful than consciousness itself, but there is nothing other than consciousness. At one point in my life, that felt like a horrible torture, but through these teachings and other influences, doubt has become just another experience, just another appearance that is never what it looks like or sounds like, but it’s definitely occurring.

Thanks for your encouragement!

Absolutely love this one! I feel like I’m so close, and I think I “understand” exactly what you mean when you’ve said before it’s not about the concepts and knowledge, and it kinda makes me laugh. I’m in no rush, but I’m also anxious. 🙏🙏

Wow, thus was super dupper helpful

Thank you.

Endless distraction..

Thanks a lot Angelo. The video title indicated it might be a response to the question I emailed you regarding. Looking forward to watching it.

When you say that it's already here, is this personal experience? What I mean to say is, when you think back to a time before realization, do you remember that you already had it but couldn't see it? When you saw it, did you say "oh, that? I always saw that but ignored it. It seemed insignificant. " If that is the case then it should be super easy to point directly at it. It reminds me of back in the 90s when I went into a mall and everyone was staring at those magic illusion posters that had hidden images. I stood staring for like 20 minutes several days in a row. One day, a person walked by and saw me. They said "You can't look at it and see it directly. You have to look through it." That was all it took, that direct pointing! This feels like that but infinitely more abstract.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

Such good questions. Maybe I'll answer in a video

@RickNuthman

8 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake awesome, I will look out for it.

Stop the mind and see what's left. Let go of control. Surrender to God or universe or everything.

Brellient talk Angelo! Thanks a lot! Doubt is my biggest issue of all! Most of my doubt come from the fact that I know that collective ego is so strong and smart.. doubt often come up when I wonder if my insight comes from true nature or the collective ego. I then become indecision to which one to pursue. So I found doubt and the last point you mentioned in conflict. Also I so love your background music.. what genre of music are these background music? I appreciate if you share so I look for them in Soundcloud. Thanks a lot Angelo! God bless 🙏🏻💜🙏🏻

This one is really awesome Angelo! So many practical yet mind blowing pointers :). Point #5 is a tough one because sometimes it's hard to see what's being avoided or where stuck. For me, I can overanalyze that one.

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

I know what you mean. If it puts you in your head it's not necessary to pursue. At certain points it can be a helpful exploration.

“It is a tale told by a fool, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”😁

VERY helpful review, thanks so much!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Thank you! This is so great and you are very appreciated! ❤

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

You've got the spirit of a polar bear

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Awesome video- thank you, Angelo! Do have have your next online retreat scheduled? I was signed up for the NC retreat, but work conflicts arose and I had to cancel my registration :( I know that retreat is the next big step for me!

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

There’s one in spring as well check out wildhealthsummit.com . No online scheduled yet

@TPot1222

8 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake that one sounds like it will be amazing. That will be a bucket list retreat in the future if you decide to hold more like it! I don’t think I’ll be able to afford it at this time, but look forward to joining everyone for the next online retreat!! Thanks, Angelo 🤗

Love the background music! What's the name of the song?

@hubbapubba

8 ай бұрын

paya lehane - mystica

I used to think there was something more real than " play " , but now I just don't think lol 😅

Hi Angelo, Eckhart changed my life 5 years ago by leading me to presence. Once I realized thinking was happening to me, everything changed almost immediately. After 5 years, I am very much at peace. I don’t identify with my thoughts and the me is almost completely gone. However, I find that it’s constant work, watching the thought and bringing myself back to presence. Usually I get back to presence by looking at nature or focusing on my breath. Recently, something inside keeps telling me to push forward. That there is something else. It isn’t really a thought but more of an intuition. I heard you reference a deeper state than presence. Is the state you feel constant? Or are you continually bringing your mind back to presence?

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

Check out the equanimity playlist and then the non-duality playlist. Work through the exercises. This is what I recommend

@nissniss8006

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Hold on... the ego as in the thoughts that arise and disapear? The idea that I'm this person.... it's sneaky? But it's also generating thoughts that lead to awakening? So there's a thing called ego that is trying to keep the illusion alive? I'm confused

Would you consider having a retreat in the northern California area?

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

Feel free to send me retreat center info 😊

@Knowingness1

8 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwakefor some reason when I send the retreat center url, then check my reply to confirm, it is not visible to me. Do you see it?

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

@@Knowingness1you have to email it YT won’t let you post links

@Knowingness1

8 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwakeI sent an email at SAA, business contacts.❤

12:25 except for echart Tolle

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

Tolle asked a very good question backed by years of suffering and he let go into the asking of it. Pure inquiry

@shlomo8448

8 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake ahhh. Yeah

@shlomo8448

8 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake hi. How much does practice play a role in awakening

@SimplyAlwaysAwake

8 ай бұрын

@@shlomo8448 really depends what is meant by practice. To practice inquiry in a sincere and vulnerable way is about the best you can do and often opens one to their true nature in short order.

@shlomo8448

8 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thanks for that

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I feel terrible I feel how tricky my thought is but I can't escape it and it's constant. Why do you have so many articulated concepts and thoughts if those aren't real and what is knowledge if none of my own interpreted experience is "true." The habit of labeling my experience literally constantly is painful and the moments of clarity in practice have residual feelings that I'm separated and the there is a journey to undertake, which is a belief. I feel like a fish in a pond and everything I do is hopeless because even taking hope is conceptual. and being hopeless is just a feeling. and when i feel release there's just a voice that comes in and ruins everything. and even if my heart is constantly reactive and my whole ego is just insufferable theres something unwilling to relinquish its grip. and i'm soo reactive in my day to day life as soon as another person or text message enters into my reality I have completely departed into some other kind of consciousness. and i'm never in a moment im nvr at ease and my thought streams are so deft and constant and flowing and intelligent its the only thing i even have to feel ok. to feel ok im lost in thought, or in some experience that gives zero opportunity for self-referntiality. this whole process is so painful and my ego doesn't even think theres anything left for me in the "VR" world. because i'm always on a goose chase and im never arrived, whereas the chases are inspired by observing people and ideology that patently give people happiness. in this state its hard to not see awakening as an answer, a cure, and a destination, because it is where i need to go.

Pursuing awakening? That's for fun 😅😅😅😅

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