Everything You Need to Know About Awakening You Can Learn From Willie Nelson
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Just look at the 12 steps of AA. if one truly follow those you’ll get to awaken. I got sober in 1997 and 6 months later my husband left me with a 2 and 7 yo to raise on my own. Fortunately , within the first 6 months I fell in love with the support AA gave me. I managed to not take a drink. I literally physically felt my heart breaking. I acted out, I raged at him , became suicidal but I didn’t drink. I stayed active in AA until 2015. That’s when I picked up marijuana( knowing full well I was on my way back to addiction). After returning from your retreat I knew I had to stop. Mostly it was a habit that I partook in the evenings,but I knew I’d never reach becoming truly awake. Believe me January was very challenging for me. But I knew that from watching you, reading books by Richard Rohr and many others that this habit was standing in the way. I’ve begun to have a desire to take care of myself again. I still struggle but I’m doing it. Glad to have the opportunity to sit in the sunshine of the spirit again. Thank you Angelo.
Thank you so much for sharing that. I am in the same position. I have up alcohol and rejoined A.A. not drinking but still smoking and feeling like I need to let it go
Fantastic! Welcome back! ❤
Can relate! Lol I’m in active aa as well , good support . Tried the weed thing too ,but now completely sober , even off caffeine !
A.A. is powerful. The Promises, if willing, can come to be, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. Throw in Christian mysticism and some SiriusXM The Bridge, the ingredients are there.
@@Aum_shantishantishanti111 I’m working on the caffeine too. Got it down to 2 small(normal) cups a day. I find when I’m drinking coffee I’m not drinking enough water.
"We mistake thought for the world . . and then we go to war with it." Right on, dude. ! ! !
😂endless war
That stopped me dead in my tracks! What a revelation ❤
This helped me touch for a few seconds the simplicity of aliveness. I was home. Thank you❤
So true Angelo. I think all addiction is trying to get release/relief from the unrelenting onslaught of self/mind thought. It is an absolute torture. I totally quit alcohol a little over a year ago. I knew I was using it as an escape and true awakening only gets blocked by the alcohol. God bless all who struggle with any addiction. Our culture is currently rampant with addictions.
Makes you wonder about all those Zen monks that drank a lot…🤔
Yea song lyrics are very interesting. The Doors - the end . Check out this song and all the doors songs.
I think many people believe they are not awake because they imagine awakeness to be a permanent state of perfect being without suffering, confusion, ethical struggle etc.
The process of finding is all about expansion and contraction, clinging and releasing.
Om Namo Ramanaya
This is great!
My fave waking song is "Stairway to Heaven".
... And if you listen very hard
The truth will come to you at last
Where all is one and one is all..."
Have walk the road of addictions for many years. One thing came to me while listening to you, I knew I couldn't control neither thoughts nor emotions, it's been close to 20 years ago, but if I remember, I wasn't just running from my failure and wanting for alcohol to take my mind away like you said, but moreover, I knew/felt/saw, and I wanted to bury this silent knower, witnessing the misery of my ego and his weakness to flee in alcohol. It seems looking back, like my ego wanted to get drunk from the mind, and while simultaneously, ( I ) wanted to get drunk from my out of control ego.... at least, it felt like this at the time. Having had an awakening early in life, it seems more like a cursed, because now I really knew something had to change to allow the awakening to follow through. Thirty years of hell was all my ego could take 😵 I must admit, he was one stubborn Mother F. 💙🙏
Recovered alcoholic here. 12 years sober. The program calls "self centeredness the root of our problem" and God centeredness is the solution.
"Getting rid of self"
Very good stuff Angelo
That's exactly how I felt whiskey river take my mind
So grateful to be sober today and having this incredible experience moving towards sanity! Toward ultimate freedom from self
Thank you for what you do here.
10 years here. You got it!
Paul Hedderman has been an amazing influence for me the last 6-7 years.
I attend his zoom meetings regularly.
Plus, his sobriety birthday is my actual birthday. Different years but same day. A fun “coincidence” for me if you believe in that sort of thing.
I do, way to many to deny.
@@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 🩷🩷🩷
We shall be with you in the fellowship of the spirit .
@@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 I love love Paul Hedderman. Probably seen you at his satsangs.
@@Aum_shantishantishanti111 that's so funny I almost sent that earlier!!!
Thank you! Willie is performing in my hometown in May. I just bought tickets last week to support a 90 year old performer, beautiful synchronicity❤ 🙏
That is awesome!
I can relate to almost every single bit of this!!!!
It’s not my experience that alcohol quiets the mind. I mean it does to a degree. But the urge to ‘escape’, which is what drinking is, is really a drive to escape from an uncomfortable sensation.
Now, if one defines ‘mind’ as feeling as well as thought, then I agree with you. However, if the body is at peace, then it’s pretty much irrelevant what the thoughts are.
To me, it seems that thoughts are reactionary and follow the body. Drinking calms or desensitises the feelings of the body. The thoughts slow or stop as a result of this calming. That is how it appears to be in my experience.
Thanks for all the sharing you do, it is so incredibly powerful, some of the best content on TH-cam ❤
Beautiful! Video!! "All we truly want is to feel fundamentally ok" just about says it all. But So many complexities of mind can obscure that simple fact.
Oh my ! I wish i could say something more intelligent, but that's all i've got. Thank you.
I had stopped smoking weed for years, then there was an existential crisis and now do it daily. At this point it is the one thing that quickly brings relief to the suffering I put myself through. I want to be free of suffering and am a work in progress, learning and noticing more about what is real and what lies my mind is telling me.
why does cannabis have that effect of heightened awareness???!!!!!
i was never a pot smoker as a young person but then had gummies when it became legal in CA as a 50 year old. i was like , dang, i see what folks like 🤪🤷♀️
of course can understand downsides but im very interested in the correlation between it and the bam! right here “feeling”.
Yo, Angelo. Escaping/calming thought + substance abuse: You are truly on to something here.🤙🏽🥃
The only thing we struggle with is the mind…💥
I love trance dance music especially from the 90,s which was before my journey on this path began . Now when I listen to that music I can hear the profound message some it is conveying . For example “More and more and more “ by Captain Hollywood project .
👉 Captain Hollywood Project
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🎤 Lyrics: Captain Hollywood Project - More and More
More and more and more
I don't know where we're going to
More and more and more
There's so much we don't wanna do
'Cause we lie, we cheat and we learn
From each and every heart affair
Yes, we lie, we cheat and we hurt
'Till somebody's in despair
Boom, keep in tune
Hollywood will soon left to a point
Right to the point
Smokin', like it's a joint
Makin'
Ain't got time to be fakin'
It's my turn and I'm takin'
Everything without shakin', yo, here with the bacon
Happy is how we should be
Realise that we are wealthy
Livin' here on this Earth
Enjoy what it's worth
Anger left behind you
Just don't let it find you
Love will not remain
As long as you complain
More and more and more
I don't know where we're going to
More and more and more
There's so much we don't wanna do
'Cause we lie, we cheat and we learn
From each and every heart affair
Yes, we lie, we cheat and we hurt
'Till somebody's in despair
More and more and more
More and more and more
More and more bam, don't give a damn
Pump the music and jam
There's no time for the problem
Not a thought to some
But just make sure you get it
Show the fella's you with it
Be impromptu, you get it
Never will you forget it
There's a way to stop this
Listen to the prophets
Everything they said
Yo, it should be read
Paul he had to tell
Things that made him well
L.I.G.H.T. is shinin'
And my brother's heart cryin'
More and more and more
I don't know where we're going to
More and more and more
There's so much we don't wanna do
'Cause we lie, we cheat and we learn
From each and every heart affair
Yes, we lie, we cheat and we hurt
'Till somebody's in despair
More and more and more
More and more and more
👌🙏👍💚
Blessings from Ireland 🇮🇪 🙏
Bob Dylan still touring and he’s over 80. Anyone who knows Dylan songs can pick up on clues in his lyrics over since the late 70s that suggest an enlightened (excuse my word) person.
Love Dylan. In his later years he was wondering how he could have written things like Hard Rain or All along the Watchtower. JRR Tolkien also said that somehow what he wrote just came to him. That it was just there.
Shelter from the Storm. Bob, George Harrison, Harvest Moon-Neil Young, Cat, Croce, so many to name. A.A. is a portal.
Bladee is my favorite spiritual artist. His newer albums are like love letters to the universe. Beautiful non dual poetry and trap melodies.
Wow ! Spot on beautifully said ! 👌❤️ addiction is hell ! 😰😩 I’ve been sober 14years and now starting to see through the core addiction to thought / self , so freeing 🥰💯❤️🌟🧚🏽
Just wonderful.
I will listen again. Thank you!!!
I listen to you every day, Angelo. THIS is exactly what I was heavily pondering when I stumbled across today’s upload. I really felt this. Thank you 🙏x
I feel listening to you so much compassionate understanding ... for ... (us?)
Oh why...
Why could I never admit what I always have known?
Wise men are simply the ones who could see what they're shown.
Nobody gets to control when they're called to come home.
-Steve Unruh.
♥♥♥
"Near a tree by a river there's a hole in the ground,
where a wise man of Aran goes around and around..."
- The Riddle, Nik Kershaw
You’re the best, Angelo.
12 steps in 2010 brought me to this channel and in that sense I can be grateful for my addiction😊
Can you please interview Paul Hedderman? Great stuff!
This is great. I just wish you could have kept going a bit longer...Still not sure how to drop out of the mind into the nondual reality.
Every breath you take (the police) , crazy (gnarls barkley) , from a distance (bette midler) a few of the songs that are ❤️🔥. I’m really enjoying seeing this through music and art ❤
I love that song From a Distance. Originally sung by Nancy Griffith I believe. So beautiful.
It's an interesting activity to take a love song you enjoy and replace the person being talked about with your conception of God/higher power/totality/isness/etc...
Alcohol and drug addictions are the most obvious and recognized, some addictions can be more subtle and insidious. Anger can be very addictive, it gives the wielder a sense of righteousness and a feeling of superiority that feeds the ego and promotes more anger, all while suppressing rational thinking. It's a never-ending cycle of dopamine and vitriol.
The worst addiction I've experienced by far is an addiction to emotional pain, it's self-sustaining because all you need to do to feed the addiction is experience more pain, and that can be done right there in your head, no external assistance required, you can relive painful memories or events on demand, and if you run out of fuel for the fire the world is more than eager to provide plenty more painful experience where those came from. Emotional pain is addictive because it draws you down into a deeper and darker place each time, and then provides a sense of relief, a return to a better state of mind. It's like beating your head repeatedly against the wall just to experience relief when you finally stop. Emotional pain can come from anywhere real or imagined, and can often be the offspring of other addictions.
So many powerful insights in this! ❤ thank you for creating such supportive and clear pointing to liberation!
Thank you, encouraging reminders!
speaking of relationships, thinking of them from this space of awareness, wow, what a highly intimate experience, yet so widely conceptualized and misunderstood.
I love to see you getting so excited! Makes me feel very connected!
Brilliant pointers and explanation. Thanks Angelo! 😊
Thanks 🙏 the relief of dropping out of the mind and into the body. Still uncomfortable and painful at times, but such a relief. And such a feeling of compassion towards that younger version of myself. He didn't have the capacity to feel this, so of course disassociation happened. Now, it's like the whole internal family is reunited and feeling through all the sensations that weren't fully felt. And there's no practice needed to do that. And no pushing or pulling on life to be a certain way. This is already freedom.
I can relate , very valuable video, thank you
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Sounds like we just have to relax the mind, and feel (the body).
So addictions then are just tools to relax the mind.
Whereas awakening achieves this without having to be externally reliant. And in a more balanced way so you're not going highs and lows.
Love it! This awakened memories. Living in Austin for most of my adult life, I had occasions to be around him (seeing him play up close at a small festival, going to a 4th of July "picnic", working at his ranch and my last invoice getting lost to the feds.) Witnessed something early on made me respect and admire him. May write these up. Inspired me to watch the 4 part doc on Willie all in one sitting yesterday afternoon, and now respect him even more. (Paramount +)
so true. I think of the lyrics to Lauryn Hill's track ; "everything s everything
Beautiful. I can feel into just about everything you're saying here. What I don't really get is the giving up of "any identification with consciousness at all". This does not seem to make sense. How can one identify with something that is not personal or special?
Your empathy is so beautiful.
Yeah please don't run out whiskey lol
That was my life for 27 years
Self! I just couldn't see it.
Love this insightful talk. Angelo is the most relatable and accurate communicator of enlightenment or awakeness that I know of.
Keep up the good and valuable communication with that extreme clarity.😇
So beautiful, thank you, Angelo! 😊
Thank you! I’ve been sober 31 years.
You made a comment on a a video once about Ronnie James Dio’s lyrics. There’s definitely a message coming through. I’m a huge fan of him! Metal for life! :)
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A Homecoming. Beautiful, Angelo 🙏🏻✌🏼✨💕
This is exquisite! Thank-you 🌟.
I need to listen to this over and over. There is so much wisdom and depth in this. Our family has been very affected with alcoholism and it’s been easier for me to demonise my mother than own my own addiction. Your words are pure truth and yet the addicted part of my mind wants to keep alcohol in its back pocket as an escape “just in case” something is too much.
How do you deal with the belief in your thoughts exactly? What if it seems really compelling.
Beautiful
When going through this path, I'm noticing self trust emerging. Before there would be thoughts speaking as me and I'd be confused, dualistic experience. Recently, when I'm not identified, I see there's me and just thoughts and I can differentiate my own voice from thoughts. Does this have a name? Intuition? It comes from seeing thoughts as thoughts and not as some entity. Does it get easier at some point to be integrated with your thoughts, voice? Could you talk about this some? I feel like my mind is against me, it's not aligned, so there's like 2.
I think it’d be very interesting to create a video that talks more about awakening found in music. There’s so much music written about it-I’ve attempted to make playlists but there’s so much. It’d be neat to specifically acknowledge other artists that you like that explore those themes.
Blessed hellride
🙏🙏🙏
Can you say more about how we don’t need thought to function in the world? There’s a deep intuition that that’s true yet the mind can’t comprehend how - everything it ever knew is action via thought. It’s likely beyond the mind anyway but hearing you share always has a very potent effect 🙏🏼
Brilliant!
I decided to learn an old song that suits perfectly as the theme tune of my (ego's) awakening project: Tomorrow is my turn, by Nina Simone among others.For the mind it's always in the future. Singing helps to process the illusion curiously well.
Johnny Bush wrote "Whiskey River."
Thanks!
So odd to see this here! I had just seen Willie in Florida the day before you posted this. The next day Whiskey River was stuck in my head and I was pondering what it meant in an awakening context, or to be more free with less mind.
Wow just wow!!!❤❤❤❤❤
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Beautifull
Thank you my G for this video 🙏
Thank you my friend 🙏🏼
Thanks
Angelo, would you ever think of doing "a day in the life video"?
So clear. Thanks.
You bet!
Curious. Michael Nesmith wrote the song "Rio" about his awakening (to what extent I don't know, but from reading what he said about it, it was clear what had happened). He couched it in such a way that the lyrics only obliquely point to it, but if you've tasted it, you can't help but understand what he's pointing to. Excerpts - I'm hearing the light from the window I'm seeing the sound of the sea, my feet have come loose from their moorings I'm feeling quite wonderfully free... I feel such a sense of well-being, the problems have come to be solved, and what I thought was proper for battle I see now is proper for love.
For some reason, distinguishing between the "'I' sense" and the "'I' thought" is hitting me in a really deep way. Have you gone into this before, or could you in the future?
I have been pondering how is it that one thought can believe another thought? Is it a mechanical process? I would love Angelo for you to deconstruct that sometime. Love this segment on Willie and awakening in a country song!
Thank you Angelo 🤗Just for the sake of labeling, haha. What term captures the essence of realizing non-duality? Is it Self-realization, Enlightenment, God Realization, or another term? Can we characterize non-dual realization as recognizing our being as pure consciousness? I recognize these are merely words, but across history, even the ineffable has been assigned names to guide seekers.
Angelo Would you say that in one way there is no such thing as psychological pain in the sense that the actual uncomfortable sensation is always bodily thus always physical, its just that with what we label as emotional pain is disassociated up into mind and narratives. Like there is nothing that can be felt anywhere other than in the body .Like what we call rage or grief is actually a bodily pain but we filter it through our minds so it seems otherwise. Is this on track?
Do you know someone for nondual one to one support, who speaks german?
Angelo, why is is to hard to let go of these scary thoughts that feel like me?
Words fail me on this one. 😭
I'm curious if you have struggled with any substance abuse?
Can you explain the is it true technique?
When teachers say torturing things you can't say it's not good is that true?
What kind of work is referenced at 13:12?
The thoughts arise out of emotional charged memories tho
That’s right, and is why the substance doesn’t work. The shadow is avoided instead of traversed !
When you are talking about the third insight you say, "you can directly address reactivity..." and then said something like "for example through (fedder???) work." I couldn't understand that word. Can someone clarify? Thank you.
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coffee is so damn dangerous omg ... keeps you in the head all the time . just decided to drop it after 4 years of continuous drinking after waking up in the morning to meditate.
Whiskey River is not Willie's song. It was written by Johnny Bush and Paul Stroud. When Whiskey River was climbing up the charts Johnny Bush lost his distinctive voice for long decades. He considered it a punishment from God for his sins. He was dealing with addiction, neurological illnes and stage fright and his record label dropped him. Willie always loved his singing and supported him.
90 years old smoking weed everyday
Breathing became difficult for me after 68 years of that. Willie must not smoke all day long every day like I used to or he would have quit by now.
@@lynlavalight I am on that path. I am trying to cut down 😩
Promo-SM 😀
“Protecting “ self from the scary world 😂 is a full time job
“Whiskey river take my mind” Ah yes I know this place the extreme need to escape one’s own mind by whatever means necessary is fkn brutal like literal hell fire. Funny not funny how it’s the same thing to lead one to this though 😂😂😂 So fascinating that in every “problem” is also the solution… Because there’s no problem 🫠🫠🫠😂 4:23
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