1- vulnerability / authenticity = willingness to introspect, to be more honest with yourself 0:39 2- expose yourself to good pointings (videos, books, people ...) 2:47 3- self-inquiry (let the narratives go and fully immerse in "who am I?") 4:30
The fact that the author heart-reacted to every other comment except for your very useful comment here seems rather conspicuous. It suggests to me that the author may do well to apply “willingness to introspect” here and vulnerably ask himself why
@@bubblemath I see where you're coming from, but maybe he just disagrees with the idea that all the content should be in the description. I do think enlightened people still have likes and dislikes and maybe he's just honest with himself and others. We all chop our wood in different ways. He creates content and puts careful thought into how to lay out that content for others. Nothing deceptive going on there in my opinion.
Angelo, thank you for just being you. You need to be recognized for all the greatness you do. I know you're not looking for some award for your work, but you really deserve to be credited for helping people like myself better themselves. My words really do not do justice for how appreciated I am. Thank you.
Thank you , the last step is like this I understand ( when we was little we go play outside, after playing we come back home) the one who goes for play never left home. 🙏🏼
somethings coming up for me and that's "Full Absorption" It really feels to me a lot like when you're first learning how to swim and that moment when your feet is off the ground that's like awakening, and then learning how to float and relax the body that's shadow work. And then eventually it feels like second nature, totally automatic. Here I am. Swimming in the vast oceans. All within myself. O Wow.
So grateful I found your account. I actually found your content before I saw that your interviews with Zdog (whom I also enjoy greatly). I just ordered your book for my wife’s birthday present 🥳 thank you for sharing!
4 step is stop watching videos and reading books about this stuff. How many time do you want to spend by listening and reading the same again and again? There is never ending list of videos and books about awakening and you can spend all your life by watching and reading all that Maharishis, Oshoes, Spiras Tolles and so on...Life is short. You are awakened already, right now, you are IT!!! NOW. REALLY!!! YOU ARE IT!!!
Indeed, once perceptual filters have fallen, the sense of time and space have experientially collapsed, and suffering has ended (there is true ongoing unbroken peace), then there really is no need for videos, books, teachers. Until that point they may be helpful at times.
@Mr. Cas I hear and understand what you are saying....intellectually I know that to be true. Until I experience that shift and not just glimpses, my suffering exists and these reminders help. Doing the practices without attaching to any of them as roadmaps, helps me connect to my senses and treat thoughts with curiosity instead of absolute identification of who I am. However, I see the slippery slope of avoidance through consuming. Thanks
@@LizB55 "....avoidance through consuming" well said... I think we're all the same in the same boat..... Is it tough to know "intellectually" while constantly doubting.... as it is for me
@@sagunbrahm it used to be but more and more I’m just accepting the doubts, the glimpses, the highs and lows and actually understanding that it’s all ok. My stress was in thinking I have to ‘arrive’ at some special place in my mind where everything makes sense. That’s just my mind doing what minds do. So I just feel what I feel and don’t beat myself up as much.
Definately listen to brilliant interviews on Buddha at the Gas Pump. Rick Archer does an amazing service for us all to listen to an amazing range of ordinary people who share their awakenings with us all. I really enjoyed your interview with him a few weeks ago, Angelo.
Thanks Angelo! Find myself wishing I could go back and show this video to myself from several years ago. Though perhaps there’s a way in which it wouldn’t have landed in quite the same way. Like the system sometimes needs to tire itself out a bit first :)
You mentioned other books, teachers. Wondering if you’ve seen Whose driving the dream bus and Being Here by Boris Jansch? They are effectively pointed in how they deliver this message.
It's a paradox, what should awaken what already is..... and yet a process seems to reveal exactly this view👁..... it's like a "switching" from perceiver to perception as a whole... .unchangeable in constant change🍃
So true about the paradox. Thought is everywhere, in every single thing: I say, think, how I express "myself". It seems the "me" I have brought to life as my "self" /character is the package of assembled beliefs and thoughts and emotions. It's very complex and intricate. The source of Being/I AM is actually not a thing I can really grasp as an "identity" - it's silent and here. I feel it. It hears and sees. Then thoughts come that say "this is the me" 😂, this silence is me 💭 My instinct tells me to sit with this I AM, and attune to that, and stop focusing on the paradox of thinking - don't go chasing the clouds of thought. It sounds more simple than it feels to do 😀
I'm not sure if I'm meant do be doing something differently with the inquiry. I'm following all the instructions and there's no end to thoughts. I dwell in the pause of momentary calm and then 💭... The sense of "me" I'm hunting so far is mired in thoughts. I know thoughts are fine though so am receptive. Just a torrent of em 💭💭💭 I'm looking for... what is "Here"... as I exist as alive being. Going to practice some more! I'm so new to this, so there's excitement and confusion 😁 mostly excitement so... Onward and upward!!!
Grateful to you for these 3 points! Just one query, do you say this in an order of practicing? For me, it's make more appropriate to have this in this order to avoid confusion, mind coming into play for ex,., If we start meditation as first step without first 2 steps. Do you think so?
I feel like I have to be attentive in daily life to make progress, but I feel like I'm always distracted by cognitive tasks. Can I even inquire while reading/working/watching videos? How? Is there a pointer for this?
"Not being a wise guy here when I say, "Look into that very thought while you are going about your daily tasks. See if the thought, 'Cogniotive tasks always but me into my mind' isn't itself a wolf in sheeps clothing." -Wayne Gretzky -Michael Scott" -Angelo
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake lol thank you. Wow, it's so easy to get tripped up in thought. It's getting clear why meditation won't necessarily wake people up. I need to practice being more spacious and holding my beliefs way more lightly than I do. I feel like awakening might lead to alot of laughter for me.
Adyashanti was asked about the efficacy of direct transmission online twice in his recent free live broadcasts. He read out the question as part of a larger question on awakening both times, then avoided answering both times! I guess he doesn’t offer interactive sessions… Of course what he does offer is some incredible pointing.
love your videos man! i would like to here whats your take on weed/caffeine use and the whole vegan thing in releation to the spiritual process:) hope its cool🙂
@S P I’ve known people who smoke weed while working through this process. It tends to drop away, but if you struggle with it believing you have to give that up before you address your deepest yearning it will just be a distraction. Instead just leave that alone )don’t worry about it), and address your deepest promptings / inquire/ meditate etc and it will drop away at some point probably.
Hey Angelo, thanks for video! On your first point about vulnerability - I find I am listening to what thoughts have to say, and what they want to express emotionally, I have been doing so for months (since initial awakening). I am so clear that it is just thoughts, that it is an illusory character, however this so called character doesn’t seem to lose any steam. Is this because I have a hidden agenda that I want it to lose steam? It often comes to this point where I realise there are just thoughts wanting other thoughts to go away, I see it all unfolding. I kind of feel like a new parent with a baby that won’t stop crying no matter what haha. Thanks Edit: I just watched a Jac o’keefe guided meditation where she opened with ‘be kind to yourself, not with stories from the mind but with true kindness’. It was like these emotional blockages just melted away.
Perhaps it's a gradual stripping away of layers of embedded thoughts solidifying the psychological self? Thoughts become subtler and more insidious and to disentangle from what they assume or infer as this thinker/experiencer you have to really methodically break it down frame by frame at a very basic and mechanical level. Oh look a thought. It's like fighting the pull of sleep. Constantly sucks you in and under. It really feels like for me I'm trying to get back to seeing the world through the eyes of a child. To feel curious wonder and pure joy. Something very different is looking through these adult eyes, and it settled in during early teens. Keep chipping away 😃 weaken the defense structures of the psyche. Going to check out that Jac O' Keef guided meditation...
Yes they will all soften over time. Sometimes inquiry is helpful other times just patience and presence. You’ll develop more and more of a sense of when each is prudent.
You cite Mooji as someone who could serve as a model for Awakening but I assume that you're aware of the scandals plaguing his retreats. He's even been taken down from Rick Archer's directory of spiritual teachers. On the other hand you might be among those who state "that one shouldn't be judging the message by the messenger."
I’ve heard the rumors yes. Couple of years ago two people in particular went very much out of their way to flood FB groups and other groups with accusations. I watched a couple of the videos about the subject. I also know several people who I trust and who are realized humans, who have interacted with him, know him and/or have been in his sangha and they’ve told me they haven’t seen anything like what has been described. Like with anything in life you have to evaluate the information, sources, motivations etc and decide for yourself. He appears to be to be a good teacher. Certainly his countless hours of free online Q and A are valuable to people.
1- vulnerability / authenticity = willingness to introspect, to be more honest with yourself 0:39
2- expose yourself to good pointings
(videos, books, people ...) 2:47
3- self-inquiry (let the narratives go and fully immerse in "who am I?") 4:30
Thank you! ♥️ The author should have just put this in the description, really
The fact that the author heart-reacted to every other comment except for your very useful comment here seems rather conspicuous. It suggests to me that the author may do well to apply “willingness to introspect” here and vulnerably ask himself why
@@bubblemath I see where you're coming from, but maybe he just disagrees with the idea that all the content should be in the description. I do think enlightened people still have likes and dislikes and maybe he's just honest with himself and others. We all chop our wood in different ways. He creates content and puts careful thought into how to lay out that content for others. Nothing deceptive going on there in my opinion.
Angelo, thank you for just being you. You need to be recognized for all the greatness you do. I know you're not looking for some award for your work, but you really deserve to be credited for helping people like myself better themselves. My words really do not do justice for how appreciated I am. Thank you.
Thanks for your kind words :)
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake, what is your opinion of VEGANISM?
The vulnerability issue is a big, big one. One might say that awakening itself is infinite vulnerability. Thanks for all you do!
Well said!
Thank you , the last step is like this I understand ( when we was little we go play outside, after playing we come back home) the one who goes for play never left home. 🙏🏼
I can't describe well enough how good your channel is. It's like lovely dream that is still there even after waking up. I'm so thankful for this.
I’m glad it’s helpful :)
Thank you Angelo. Vulnerability is a gigantic issue for me, always has. Thank you for the pointing.
Thank you. I have made discoveries of my inner child that have help me tremendously because of your teachings. I am more at peace with myself.
This work you describe is very important. many overlook it and don't know why they feel so stuck in this process.
The teachers and books you mentioned are who brought me here to you as well as your book. Such good advice.
somethings coming up for me and that's "Full Absorption"
It really feels to me a lot like when you're first learning how to swim and that moment when your feet is off the ground that's like awakening, and then learning how to float and relax the body that's shadow work. And then eventually it feels like second nature, totally automatic.
Here I am. Swimming in the vast oceans. All within myself. O Wow.
Beautiful , just attune to that effortlessness and simplicity on its own intuition
So grateful I found your account. I actually found your content before I saw that your interviews with Zdog (whom I also enjoy greatly). I just ordered your book for my wife’s birthday present 🥳 thank you for sharing!
wonderful, let me know how it goes for both of you :)
Thank you! The simplicity of this is helpful.
4 step is stop watching videos and reading books about this stuff. How many time do you want to spend by listening and reading the same again and again? There is never ending list of videos and books about awakening and you can spend all your life by watching and reading all that Maharishis, Oshoes, Spiras Tolles and so on...Life is short. You are awakened already, right now, you are IT!!! NOW. REALLY!!! YOU ARE IT!!!
Indeed, once perceptual filters have fallen, the sense of time and space have experientially collapsed, and suffering has ended (there is true ongoing unbroken peace), then there really is no need for videos, books, teachers. Until that point they may be helpful at times.
@Mr. Cas I hear and understand what you are saying....intellectually I know that to be true. Until I experience that shift and not just glimpses, my suffering exists and these reminders help. Doing the practices without attaching to any of them as roadmaps, helps me connect to my senses and treat thoughts with curiosity instead of absolute identification of who I am.
However, I see the slippery slope of avoidance through consuming.
Thanks
@@LizB55 "....avoidance through consuming" well said... I think we're all the same in the same boat.....
Is it tough to know "intellectually" while constantly doubting.... as it is for me
@@sagunbrahm it used to be but more and more I’m just accepting the doubts, the glimpses, the highs and lows and actually understanding that it’s all ok. My stress was in thinking I have to ‘arrive’ at some special place in my mind where everything makes sense. That’s just my mind doing what minds do. So I just feel what I feel and don’t beat myself up as much.
Shadow work. Don't bypass.
1. Don't lie to yourself (!!!!!)
2. Don't forget this path, expose yourself to teachings
3. Self inquiry. Who am I?
Definately listen to brilliant interviews on Buddha at the Gas Pump. Rick Archer does an amazing service for us all to listen to an amazing range of ordinary people who share their awakenings with us all. I really enjoyed your interview with him a few weeks ago, Angelo.
Thanks for the tip! Just watched my first episode from the series.. it really helps to get more clarity about the topic!
Thanks Angelo! Find myself wishing I could go back and show this video
to myself from several years ago. Though perhaps there’s a way in which it wouldn’t have landed in quite the same way. Like the system sometimes needs to tire itself out a bit first :)
I agree.
So beautifully and simply stated. Thank you.
You mentioned other books, teachers. Wondering if you’ve seen Whose driving the dream bus and Being Here by Boris Jansch? They are effectively pointed in how they deliver this message.
I’ve seen the Dream Bus. It’s a good one. Good teachers in there as well, Jeff Foster, Tony Parsons, Toni Packer
Robert Adams said that in self inquiry, one can practice the I, I which is essentially immersing in the "I am" feeling.
It's a paradox, what should awaken what already is..... and yet a process seems to reveal exactly this view👁..... it's like a "switching" from perceiver to perception as a whole... .unchangeable in constant change🍃
...and I can't explain what or who I'm writing this for....the writing just happens.....apparently for "ME"
yes and yes and yes
So true about the paradox. Thought is everywhere, in every single thing: I say, think, how I express "myself". It seems the "me" I have brought to life as my "self" /character is the package of assembled beliefs and thoughts and emotions. It's very complex and intricate.
The source of Being/I AM is actually not a thing I can really grasp as an "identity" - it's silent and here. I feel it. It hears and sees. Then thoughts come that say "this is the me" 😂, this silence is me 💭
My instinct tells me to sit with this I AM, and attune to that, and stop focusing on the paradox of thinking - don't go chasing the clouds of thought. It sounds more simple than it feels to do 😀
Isn't that interesting.....everything appears like this....without anyone...doing anything🌞
I'm not sure if I'm meant do be doing something differently with the inquiry. I'm following all the instructions and there's no end to thoughts. I dwell in the pause of momentary calm and then 💭... The sense of "me" I'm hunting so far is mired in thoughts. I know thoughts are fine though so am receptive. Just a torrent of em 💭💭💭
I'm looking for... what is "Here"... as I exist as alive being. Going to practice some more! I'm so new to this, so there's excitement and confusion 😁 mostly excitement so... Onward and upward!!!
Thanks
Thank you :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
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@@SimplyAlwaysAwake love you Angelo♥️ PS this love comes straight from the heart. It is like being a messenger for something I don’t understand.
Grateful to you for these 3 points! Just one query, do you say this in an order of practicing? For me, it's make more appropriate to have this in this order to avoid confusion, mind coming into play for ex,., If we start meditation as first step without first 2 steps. Do you think so?
Not necessarily , it’s more like when of those is notably missing it tends to be a hinderance
I feel like I have to be attentive in daily life to make progress, but I feel like I'm always distracted by cognitive tasks. Can I even inquire while reading/working/watching videos? How? Is there a pointer for this?
"Not being a wise guy here when I say, "Look into that very thought while you are going about your daily tasks. See if the thought, 'Cogniotive tasks always but me into my mind' isn't itself a wolf in sheeps clothing." -Wayne Gretzky
-Michael Scott"
-Angelo
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake lol thank you. Wow, it's so easy to get tripped up in thought. It's getting clear why meditation won't necessarily wake people up. I need to practice being more spacious and holding my beliefs way more lightly than I do. I feel like awakening might lead to alot of laughter for me.
🌸🙏🙏🙏🌸
Thank you...
Welcome!
Please give pointers on how to wake up expeditiously for work in the mornings
Is paper street soap good?
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Love that shirt.
Thank you 🙏
Welcome!
When I ask the question thoughts arise to respond to that answer and you said there aren’t any thoughts associated to who am I
What about the book be here now? lol I have that one but haven’t read it yet
I haven’t read it either :)
I feel like I'm on the precipice but I "know" I'm already there. Thank you. ❤️
!!! Welcome. Isn’t that funny the paradox of this?
Nice Shirt!!! And I love your hair....lol
Is direct transmission more efficient and effective in person and in real time?
In real time yes, in person probably adds to some degree but face to face over video works very well
Adyashanti was asked about the efficacy of direct transmission online twice in his recent free live broadcasts. He read out the question as part of a larger question on awakening both times, then avoided answering both times! I guess he doesn’t offer interactive sessions… Of course what he does offer is some incredible pointing.
@@TheDogzBody well having been in his audience a few times I can confirm the transmission is powerful 🌊
I imagine that being on a retreat with him is incredible! 😺🌼
Hi there! I'm starting to experience your videos. Have you read "Waking Up" by Sam Harris?
I haven't, Have you read Awake, It's Your Turn by me? ⛩💥
No I haven't. Is the book available on Amazon
@@jimbrazil8517 Yepper. Here is link: www.amazon.com/dp/B094X5DLGX
Or put your email here I’ll comp you one
btw - Do you conduct in-person retreats?
love your videos man!
i would like to here whats your take on weed/caffeine use and the whole vegan thing in releation to the spiritual process:) hope its cool🙂
None of those will hinder awakening.
@S P I’ve known people who smoke weed while working through this process. It tends to drop away, but if you struggle with it believing you have to give that up before you address your deepest yearning it will just be a distraction. Instead just leave that alone )don’t worry about it), and address your deepest promptings / inquire/ meditate etc and it will drop away at some point probably.
@S P pretty much. I just made a video about this. I’ll post shortly
Is Paul Hedderman awake?
Hey Angelo, thanks for video! On your first point about vulnerability - I find I am listening to what thoughts have to say, and what they want to express emotionally, I have been doing so for months (since initial awakening).
I am so clear that it is just thoughts, that it is an illusory character, however this so called character doesn’t seem to lose any steam. Is this because I have a hidden agenda that I want it to lose steam? It often comes to this point where I realise there are just thoughts wanting other thoughts to go away, I see it all unfolding.
I kind of feel like a new parent with a baby that won’t stop crying no matter what haha.
Thanks
Edit: I just watched a Jac o’keefe guided meditation where she opened with ‘be kind to yourself, not with stories from the mind but with true kindness’.
It was like these emotional blockages just melted away.
Perhaps it's a gradual stripping away of layers of embedded thoughts solidifying the psychological self? Thoughts become subtler and more insidious and to disentangle from what they assume or infer as this thinker/experiencer you have to really methodically break it down frame by frame at a very basic and mechanical level. Oh look a thought. It's like fighting the pull of sleep. Constantly sucks you in and under. It really feels like for me I'm trying to get back to seeing the world through the eyes of a child. To feel curious wonder and pure joy. Something very different is looking through these adult eyes, and it settled in during early teens. Keep chipping away 😃 weaken the defense structures of the psyche. Going to check out that Jac O' Keef guided meditation...
Yes they will all soften over time. Sometimes inquiry is helpful other times just patience and presence. You’ll develop more and more of a sense of when each is prudent.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thanks 🙌
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Wrong question. WHAT AM I. WHERE AM I.
Engagement!
:)
You cite Mooji as someone who could serve as a model for Awakening but I assume that you're aware of the scandals plaguing his retreats. He's even been taken down from Rick Archer's directory of spiritual teachers.
On the other hand you might be among those who state "that one shouldn't be judging the message by the messenger."
I’ve heard the rumors yes. Couple of years ago two people in particular went very much out of their way to flood FB groups and other groups with accusations. I watched a couple of the videos about the subject. I also know several people who I trust and who are realized humans, who have interacted with him, know him and/or have been in his sangha and they’ve told me they haven’t seen anything like what has been described. Like with anything in life you have to evaluate the information, sources, motivations etc and decide for yourself. He appears to be to be a good teacher. Certainly his countless hours of free online Q and A are valuable to people.
Why can't you explain it
Bc it’s not about explanations, thoughts, concepts. By its very nature.
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