The Two-Step Technique to Experience Unbound Consciousness
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That is so well said! I don’t think you could get more detailed in instruction… Because that’s exactly what happens! We start to analyze our thought and then off we go thinking about thought and imagining things instead of being able to stay present hyper focused on just observing the thought… Our brain is so trained… It takes so much practice and patience❤️😊
You are really amazing. And I am in awe also at the fact that you donate so much! Thank you for all the time you give on this. Thank you for all you give! 💝💓💗❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💌
Thank you
Thanks Angelo. I love how your talks take me directly to the experience rather than you just talking about a subject
Glad to hear it
😮😮. You always have a way with words for a topic that seems to be impossible to describe with language!!! I have not come close to any of this yet. I think because I am very analytical and “visually oriented”? I struggle grasping a lot of what you talk about because it feels so “abstract” to me. Even without understanding, I have a great sense that what’s you said in this particular video may perhaps be the best anyone could do in trying to provide a guideline on how to experience unbound consciousness!!! I just hope it actually “sinks in” for me someday. Thank you for sharing all of this so passionately for the rest of us. Love your book too!
Wow! Thank you so much, Angelo 💖❤💓
I use Tolle's technique to interrupt the thought train. This practice, notice the feeling of your feet as you walk, has allowed me to develop those gaps. I will do as suggested for step two.
a few minutes to understand. an eternity to "experience". it's like figuring out that a slot machine has a hidden coin slot in the back and when you drop a coin into that secret slot, the machine pays off endlessly with peace and stillness and radical abundance. even more amazing, somehow we've found the secret slot - even though it's not really secret at all. you just need to look for it. how humbling and magnificent. thank you
In other words, one has to become curious about one’s own mental landscape, not seriously but in a playful manner with no agenda. But as you say, you cannot investigate thoughts if you identify with them. The disengagement or disentanglement from thought has to happen first.
Not really curious, but more like conscious of it really. Maybe even realize how much we live primarily in our mental creations and take out for reality. But, like Angelo said, this is just the first step. Now we have to locate the self, the "I", in that mental realm, who is supposedly "thinking" the thoughts and then find the boundary between the two (of there actually should be one). 😊🙏
@@edzardpiltz6348 although I haven’t been able to locate that “I” no matter how hard I looked for it, there’s still a nagging sense of ownership to the thoughts popping up in my head like they’re MY thoughts… And the so-called negative thoughts: there’s still a stickiness to them at times. But I’ll keep watching 😁
@@gerrym-cat7119 fascinating, isn't it😊. Just keep on looking. What is that sense of doership/ownership made of? When and how does it arise? Where are the boundaries? And so on...🙏
Thanks Angelo, that was very helpful. I think I’m getting pretty good at this. Oh look, that’s another thought. 😅
Awesome keep at it
I really like the way you make this an exercise for us to practice and experience directly, instead of teaching concepts regarding the nature of consciousness. Thanks, Angelo
He he can’t help but giggle at thinking my bit hurts, and my dog and cue tips. Need to re listen and not giggle. Love ya Angelo. 😊
This had me laughing a few times.. thoughts for me, seem to be like I am reading aloud, almost visual letters and words, they seem to be created in my throat, tongue, like normal speech, but silent, heard within.. very helpful. Often when listening to you your voice is the only thing I hear as if your voice was my voice..
Hey Angelo I hope your doing good!
I have something that’s somewhat related and keeps coming up.
I often talk to my self in second person meaning like “You are…” or “You can…” and so on.
This happens on a regular basis when I’m by my self!
So I wonder if self inquiry by asking “who are you” makes sense?
I have to laugh about it as I write it because its sounds silly but I’m genuinely curious about it, so maybe you or somebody else could say something about it?
I am so grateful for everything you have done Even if you would stop teaching and all that tomorrow, you have created such a vast library for enlightenment and anybody has access to it for free!
Much love ❤️
Matt
PS: I don’t know where you get your background sounds but they are doing their job! They alone often are, whats “taking me away” :D
I choose this video or this video choose me or it just happen in the Light of Consciounes,,,,,I see it,,,I see the Light!!,,,,See You and thank You,,!
Gratitude.
thank you for this great video.
It is very helpful.
🙏❤️
This is the way to enter the light/space and go deeper into where am I, what am I, who am I… nothing of substance… expansiveness of stillness, silence… then a thought might arise or a sound, ‘turn around’ and look into the origin of the sound in the ear, brain, me - who is me, where is me, is me Denis… go deeper, deeper, into expansive quietness…
For those whose practice is meditation on form and not watching or witnessing thoughts as is discussed here, and you feel that there is need to go deeper. The second step if I may say so, will be to switch to "I am" meditation.
In formal meditation the focus is some kind of object, eg sound, mantra, image, breath etc. In the I am meditation, the object of focus is turned inwards, ie your own sense of being or awareness. Aware that you are aware. It is quite subtle, certain stillness of mind is required. It may not be recognised at the beginning. Or the recognition is more intellectual. But as you continue, you can actually sense or feel it.
Just continue with this. There will be a time in which you can simply drop it. It's no longer needed or in a way it has become effortless. Your are already aware, there is really no need to keep repeating it. Just be.
I do the I AM meditation daily
this worked, as i did it while you were explaining it. for me the thoughts disappear if attention is paid to them, so the act of looking kind of dissolves the thinking. then...I kind of don't have anything to say about what's after that - you started talking about the integrative or disintegrative abilities of consciousness, and I wasn't sure what that meant, but didn't want to leave the place of stillness of just being one with the watching, so i kind of decided to be ok not understanding. otherwise it hurts to re-emerge to try to figure the thing out.
addendum to my comment - it feels wrong to say anything without just saying how wonderful you are Mr Angelo Dilullo, and how grateful we all are, too.
wonderful!
Great video. Once i've read it in your book it's getting easier, even during daily tasks, not just while meditating. It's like there's no "I" apart from anything. It can't be, there's simply no space for anything separated. Attention moves freely, and spontaneously on sensations, thoughts, sounds etc. What's important is that "noticing" is another thought which often overlays this (well, not really, but seemingly). It's quite enjoyable actually, it's like everything is in this no-space, closer than close.
But i'm not sure how to process to step two, it's like any doing is getting back to this thought-train. Any "trying" to "see" is another mental overlay. Maybe i'm still not there to "feel" this :)
Still don't get it what's the difference between sitting in thought-train and this unboundness, when consciousness moves freely. WIll work on it, if you have anything to add, i'll appreciate it :)
Mostly while sitting in silence be really alert for subtle thought forms defining your experience
Angelo's video on "You have Plenty of Time" Finally made practice during daily tasks make sense for me.
I like this question a lot!!
This is especially wonderful.
Yes! Thank you!
I've played this like five times over the last two and inquired over it. Really beautiful and useful stuff. I really appreciate your work Angelo!
Glad it’s helpful
Beautiful! Thanks 🙏
Thanks. Very interesting.
Great stuff Angelo, masterful explanation as always, this might just be what I was looking for to progress, these days I find myself catching the thought train passing by seemingly from a somehow different perspective, but it still feels heavy, still feels like a dream, foggy, heavy, non-present... A very different feeling from those blisful moments of expansive natural and pleasant silence. It feels off, like I'm working against myself - as if desensitizing and zoning out, judging the thoughts from the side and struggling to find the way back to the presence. Will try playing around with the 2nd technique, thank you.
I think this was what I needed, thank you for this pointer. Thank you thank you
This was very helpful, it came in the right time. I am doing a lot of shadow work these days and I was wondering why it is pulling me back into the self so much. This happened before so I stopped doing it back then.
This time I tried to balance it out with a lot of meditating. This helped. But here you gave me the hint. When I looked into my thoughts and believes I became the watcher. So all day long I put myself into the watcher state. Going to move towards thoughts and believes now instead of distancing myself from them.
Very grateful 🙏 thank you ❤️
Welcome
SO useful! Perfect timing as well as I'm having a hard time finding any sort of feeling of "me", so I'll switch over and disengage from the thought stream like you described instead. Thank you!
Much love from the Swedish dad 😊❤️
Great NLP exercise, and powerful submodality examples!
Thanks, super useful indeed. At least for step 1. I'm not bothering to process step 2, which seemed pointless to do until step 1 is second nature, so to speak. :)
Thanks Angelo! I really like this inquiry.
My pleasure!
Love the 1 on 1 vibe your instructional videos have. It's like a coach is coaching me here right now, not vague advice to an "audience." Good shit.
You mentioned movies. I used to love a good movie. But now? This is so much more fascinating, exciting, and yes, it even could be called entertaining. But it's the reality of it that continues to pull me in. Then to discover 'whoa, this isn't it either....so deeper and deeper and "closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet." Thank you so much Angelo. What you give isn't all the cryptic talk and symbolism it seems you have to figure out in a lot of the older, ancient teachings.
So very helpful. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome video
Glad you enjoyed it
I am an old tree
Thoughts move like wind past me
Then I am just gone
Much appreciation, brother.
I've been meditating for quite some time after experiencing an awakening. I notice this very subtle sense of reorientation that feels like a fundamental, immovable sense of self that is seeing the whole process. It is not definable in any way, but it feels like a second set of eyes watching even in the quietest of moments and comes online quickly while permeating into a nondual experience. Any suggestions?
Yes, that was helpful - in a way which surprised me. I was very interested in the words at first and then I started noticing the feelings in my chest. Then I noticed the design on the tee shirt right over your chest. Whoops! That became more interesting than the words I was listening to, the spoken words, the words of thought, as I felt that the energy in my chest was generating the emotion behind what I was thinking and feeling as I listened to the words. Tension in my chest which I had not even been aware of started dropping away. Then the opening stopped and clouds of thought took over. But I learned something, and I can go back to it.
I think you are perhaps the best nondual teacher I have come across. Loving your book and only a third of the way through.
I seem to have periods of lucidity without thoughts and then one sneaks up on me and I then realise what’s happened. I know when I’m painting or creating a pot I’m less likely to get into thought patterns - I think this is generally known as being in the zone.
So much of the time ‘it’ feels so close. Thank you Angelo you are well named.
Hi there, glad you’re enjoying it
Thanks Angelo - I enjoyed this pointing. I find it’s easy to rest in something like the watcher state, without realizing that the sense of the watcher, the space and the thought are all the same “stuff”. Even that realization is more of the same stuff…but there is something else that feels different - that’s what I keep trying to explore. :)
Thanks for sharing!
I get it. I never knew this as exactly so. Despite having read and practised this. My perspective has completely shifted. I'm off to practice correctly. Lesson here: Get an awakened teacher, like your book says. I've been DIY for too long. Thank you very much.
If you see if you if you say that there is no watcher and I believe that we must find Stillness as so we become awareness. In awareness thoughts feelings and emotions will arise so then one may be able to inquire as to who is having any thought feeling or emotion has the self-watches that question arise of self inquiry and discovers Stillness answers this question in silence lest you enter on a Merry-Go-Round.
“my butt itches.” 😂
Keena, it happens to all of us 😂😂😂
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I mean yeah, I was just impressed that you were able to read my thoughts 🍑😆
@@keena1487 😂
I count my blessings that I have aphantasia and have no visual thoughts. I discovered about 5 years ago that most people really do create images in their minds. I thought it was just metaphorical. I wish I had the verbal equivalent, too!
Really gratefull for everything Angelo! One thing I'm confused about I feel the gaps between tought get longer. I guess I get more alert and push them away somehow before the thought comes forcing somehow back in presence. I will try to let them be without identifying with them. Feels tricky. Thanks!❤
How's it going with the next book? Will it expand on the Stages? So curious and excited for the next one!
It is thus; formless, signless and wishless.
I was waiting,,,,and waiting ,,,,the Sun come up after the clouds(thoughts)pass,,,,and then I realise ,,,O my Gosh,,,the Guy îs the Sun,,!!Thank you
Currently 111 comments as I'm watching this. Ahhh yet another sign that yes really, all is one. This was really interesting, i feel like I'm going right into it and then the descriptions after that seem to just pull away from that place of oneness.
Thank you for all you do Angelo.
What about the idea of “conscious creation” and “manifestation” “alchemy” etc.. the idea that we create our physical reality with thoughts..I’m pointing at the work of those like Manly P Hall, Madame Blavoski, hermetic philosophy etc.
Do these ideas fit in the context of non duality? Or is life simply happening (effortlessly like thoughts, the breath etc) and we are consciousness experiencing ourselves as that happening?
Are thoughts in the way of the human having an optimally calibrated earthly experience? It feels like the experience of “life” is already sort of “pre paved” infinitely from the perspective of non duality.
Thanks again.🙏🏾
i notice some "quieter" thoughts, they feel closer to me (?) i dont know... but i do see all this as thoughts, including this. it's cool! haha
Thank you for the simple pointing. I tend to overcomplicate every aspect of this "spiritual journey" and that is frustrating. Do you have any suggestions when it comes to "noticing" type thoughts? For instance, when I meditate or do self inquiry, my attention will move around. It will watch thoughts, focus on the sound of ringing in my ears, watch what appears to be a subtle visual display, move to the pressure in my forehead... so on and so forth. And all the while, it feels like I have thoughts that notice the movement of attention and the variation in experience. Are these also thoughts that can be seen and dissolved, or is "noticing" being accomplished without the use of thought? My mind is telling me right now that experience is rather lame when you don't get to notice it.....
often in that case the next thought that catches attention and leads down the thought road is "there is pressure in my ____" what to do about it etc etc
Thank you dear Angelo. This is very helpful for me. I can be the observer without judging the mind’s activity for a little bit but if I try to get closer to the thoughts I easily become engaged with their story without even noticing it and once I become aware, there’s sort of a jolt and this startles me. 😅Is this normal? or I am not doing it right?
Normal, keep at it, it will clarify
I was like number 666 👹😂
Great video, thank you Angelo!
When it "clicks", does the "click" stick? Or do you need to practice to put in work to make that "perspective" a conditioning of its own? Or is the nature of my question flawed?
Hello Angelo! I’m currently reading your book and at some point I realised that one part of me really doesn’t want to wake up.
The connected beliefs seem to be “When waking up I would have to face the scary and sad truth that I am alone“ and “I would lose meaning, fun and relationships“.
The same part tried to restabilise identity through cigarette addiction after a traumatic psychedelic experience of ego death.
So I ask you, is it really worth it? Is the sense of being alone as consciousness just another belief? How can I continue?
Thanks so much Angelo, I love your book and videos
Yes the way the mind imagines it being is simply not how it is. It will trip you up at every turn, this is why we wake up :)
Do "songs" exist in nature, or do air pressure didferences excite neurons the same way repeatedly?
Is it ok to mentally note when you become aware of the thought? Like, “thought” ..thank you 🙏🏼
Yes of course.
Trekcho and Thogal ?
Angelo, I'm sorry if I repeat always the same questions... When I go through this process (I'm attempting it since many years) it is like I get to some image of myself which I really can't define. Since I'm looking at it is not me and yet every time I get there (now is it almost immediate) I'm kind of stuked. Of course I can ask who's watching it? and then it seems like another image also undefinable. Yet it is weird, like I'm fooling myself. Is there a better question?
Yeah. Something like that. Bummer about all the thoughts. No wonder we play the lottery. All thoughts could then be bought, sold, entertained, then die with us. But with a cool pile left behind. Who doesn’t love a cool pile?
Angelo, is there Buddha nature in thought?
By dooing this ,,,,I leave whith nothing,,!,,,what my Pop , and my Mom could say about this !?
Dear Angelo, i'll read soon your book, and maybe there is an answer there, but i can easily go beyond any tought into silence etc, but then there is still a subltle sense of self. If i then imagine to completly letting go, like if i am truly dying, there is a very strong fear reaction, with tachicardia etc. Is that something one has to go though? If yes, there is a way to smooth the process? I know i can inquiry on who is feeling fear etc, but often it get too intellecual or i just go back to silence, and little happen, only if i truly ask myself, what if i die now, the fear process start, because it feel so real in that state. Could completly trust a higher power help?
Thank you
I recommend the consciousness playlist as well as the awakening approaches playlist
Also thoughts playlist
And so then ... what exactly is "the world out there" if not also another thought and not more? I'm good with that.
Angelo. What is your opinion regarding what is labelled by DSM-V/modern psychiatry as "derealization" and "depersonalization"? Many practitioners seem to label such spiritual episodes as a sickness.
Disassociation isn’t the same as awakening or unbound consciousness experience. However I think people who tend to disassociate provably have more access to it than the average person. However they usually have to do some emotion and sensory integration work or will keep disassociating
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake agreed. Integration/grounding very important. Thanks.
When there is no thought, I immediately notice tinnitus. Is noticing this a thought? (I try not to label it) .
Yes! Good. Subtle thought “that is tinnitus, here it is again”
Next subtle thought “I’m trying not to notice that thought.”
So recognize these as such then ask ok what else is here (experientially)…..
Or, you can try not to lable it right away. I you have to, just note it as an acoustic sensation arising and leave it at that. I bet following that you will notice plenty more sensations arising: thoughts, emotions, more sounds, bodily sensations, images and so on. Just note them as such, lean back and wait for the next thing to appear. Keep on doing that until you have a certain mastery of that process and then follow up with Angelo's step two for the deep dive. 😊🙏
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Oh I see, very subtle indeed. I will keep at it, thank you for taking the time to respond.❤
@@edzardpiltz6348 Your response is very helpful, it is clear what I must do now. Thank you. ❤🙏
Is our whole life is based on thoughts then? Sorry for such kind of questions!
Well I’d rather you discover this directly
Ok so there is no awareness apart from experience. In unbound consciousness what is awareness aware of? I can't isolate awareness. If I ask who is aware of the thought or this experience or sensation there is a brief moment of nothing then really quick and subtly there is awareness of something else. Please help
I might ask you in unbound consciousness what is consciousness made of?
But, what do you exactly mean when you say move towards the thoughts?
Check what the thought "feels like"
Thanks for the answers, lovely people. I really appreciate your explanations.
Hi creative. Can you identify a thought in real time, like one that caught you for a moment then you disidentified and realized "oh that is a thought" is this experience available to you?
Hi Angelo. The thought arises and goes away instantly... I can't find the time to go towards it and inquire the nature of it. I can do that with sensations in the body... are more sticky.
The experience is that thoughts, between thoughts and the space of me( observer) are the same alive, pulsing, subtle " substance" .
Hi Angelo, I did again the process. The experience is that the focus shifts on the subtle "substance " that pulse in the "background "( there is no point of reference for saying back or front) and there is no "need" to be aware of thoughts anymore. Doesn't metter... I don't know how to explain it. All, thoughts, sensation the images are melting in the pulsing amorfe " substance" ( I don't know how to call it) . It Is so pervasive and all is the same .
Should I try to keep focus on the thoughts?
If there is no "experiencer" or else, how come anyone could remember such an "experience"?
Memory appearing, no one remembering
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I see, that's just beyond what the "normal" mind can figure.
Hi , is it me or has Angelo had to much coffee or has this video been speeded up ?!
Tony Parsons really hates the whole noticing thoughts, look for the gap in the thoughts...ha.
Tony talks smack about a lot of teachers and approaches actually. Except for the open secret message. Then he always slips in toward the end somewhere “but when people come here sometimes something happens snd the illusion of self collapses. It’s an interesting dynamic/approach. But I think it leads to confusion at times. Also I understand he was a spiritual seeker for many years so obviously there were practices etc. To just outright say or suggest that it’s useless to inquire, practice etc is misreading in my (and many other realized humans’) opinions.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake yeah Tony had his share of the spiritual game, he was around Osho for a good while but he now dismises spirituality and something can happen at his meetings, it's like the me has nowhere to go or hide.
@@niallbourke7963 and of course it can, the open secret message is a powerful pointing, but it’s not the only way to access no-self
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Thank you