Awakening | Equanimity Deep Dive
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- A deep dive down into the recesses of identity. At what point did we conclude that life is not ok just as it is? Where does the illusion of separation originate? How do we access that part of our self that seems to always be at odds with experience? Would you believe it's with you at all times just waiting to be acknowledged? Ironically when we come into contact with that part of our psyche that feels like it always has to react to and attempt to change reality, we simultaneously find access to peace, silence, unmoving equanimity.
All our suffering comes from the need to feel secure. We attach and identify, creating conflict. We create time by referencing the past and thinking there is a way out in the future.
Exactly !
…sooo accept the “insecure” feeling?
One of your most impactful videos. I’m listening to this whenever thoughts have hijacked this Being. It’s very good at bringing me home. ❤
So needed pointer today. 🙏
Laughed so hard at the end. I was meditating eyes closed and the funny music came on
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Wow.
Listened to this twice and couldn’t hear the words. No frustration, just letting go.
Deeply tuned to your voice, but the content was liquid and I had neither capacity nor need to grasp or register or remember.
Just sitting in my kitchen after dinner, and this drops me through to what I’m sure was exactly what you were speaking to, even as I can’t recall a word…
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Yup....liquid perfect term. Like coated with honey.
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So that was an apparent year ago… How about now? 🙃
How now brown cow?
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Great question, Timothy! 😎😂
Rather than trying to summarize and repeat, I’ll refer you to a post I just made on Angelo’s video from a couple days ago, “Freedom from Extremes.”
Thanks for reaching out. All the best to you…
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Mac
Very helpful. Thank you!
No ego. No mind. No thoughts. Your words take me to this place of just being.
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I think you have communicated something that essentially escapes verbalisation. Thank you.
Welcome :)
This is exactly what I needed to hear right now. I’ve been trying to figure out how to surrender (who surrenders what to whom?) I can’t believe I never made the connection between equanimity and surrender. What to do when the seeker is out of ideas about what else is left to do? Give up trying to manipulate the moment. Accept now as it is = surrender control to it = equanimity. 🙏
There is nothing to be said about this moment ... except ..... beautiful dogs😊
... this description is, what is ..... and something else ..... such beautiful videos, how you describe the indescribable !!! ❤
The wonder of beeing🌈
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Wow! What a video. Exactly what I'm needing right now. Thanks to Mr. Zesty for the recommendation -- and thanks to Angelo, as always.
Glad it was helpful!
OMG the end of the video is genius
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I’ve recently found you have appeared on my recommendations Angelo. Listening to this, the words seemed to take me to what I suppose is my first wound. When you speak of running to mind away from the world it bought a release of emotion. I can’t remember the time before this shift away from presence as trauma happened at a young age. My earliest memories of childhood are of the sadness and yearning for ‘god’ I don’t know if I would have used that word but I knew I had lost connection with something and yearned for it. The sadness that has been touched is still releasing as I write this. With deep gratitude ❤
I keep coming back to this video. It's hard work, requiring sweat rolling off the brow...to not do. lol. But (at least for me), it's the very key of things. Spontaneous person-to-person interaction is a wonderful thing -- but so is a video where the clear truth is presented, which one can allow to smack one in the face, time after time...I'm stupid; thick headed. I have to hear important things a hundred times before they really sink in.
You’re right, this is slippery work, requires diligence and patience. Glad to hear you are doing it.
Beautyfull dogs.
Basenji sisters ☺️
Perfectly stated!
Surrender=Grace
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Does this make you uncomfortable 😣 just as I was about to hit the pause button 😂 always on point 🙏🏽
Stillness whispers; Stand by me! Stillness is every love song I listen to. love vibrating from me, through me, by me 🧡
Just stand by me 💫
Great video. Thank you
Wow that was really good, so helpful. I have been feeling this a bit of late and really enjoying it. If only I was allowed to do it more often:-)
Thanks
Welcome!
Thank YOUUUUUU
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There they are again 🤎🐾🤎🐾🤎
Hits to the roots
Thank you
perfect video.
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Gratitude.
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I'm not so sure I'm ok with the idea that I have no agency.
how could you be? The sense of a separate you is intimately intertwined with agency.
I've had to practice this during Zazen, since I'm extremely itchy... an itch can be a great teacher 😂
Many years ago I sat in a zendo for a week during hot summer, very itchy, not allowed to move. I learned a lot 😅
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake omg! Why to do that?
@@maryamsh28 I wondered the same thing 😜
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake OH NO!!! NOT THE ITCH!!!!
I struggled with that for many many years. Peak madness came with the 10 day Vipassana retreats. I actually damaged my teeth from clenching so hard to try to "not move". After a few of those and a lot of home practice, I finally said "Screw it. I give up." and scratched away. And all was well, much better anyway LOL
@@geoffreylevens9045 😂😂
Master of deconstruction. 😮😊
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My 'path' gave up the warm sleepless bed to get smacked between the eyes w this transmission. Metafor intended. yikes and more yikes.
Bizarrely This morning ritual I got 'there', went through the portal to bliss, and temptation pulled me back, said I couldnt stay... had to Get, Do. Surely I am Mad? Tell me this chapter...this 'see saw' is a horrific tease. The dark before the dawn?? So fractured I will problem will never get back to a reply...
entered being, I was looking so hard i started to get really scared but it was only a moment, I relaxed instantly and the constellations just expanded to make everything. Is this still thoughts? will finish this 14/14 playlist this evening this is video 10/14.
Keep at it ☺️. Great work!
Hey Angelo, how does this marry up with motivation?
To take an extreme example:
If I have no desire to improve upon my circumstances e.g. I have chest pain, I should call an ambulance, but I won't because I'm profoundly at peace.
😂… you’ll call 911 I’ll bet, but still be at peace ;)
You can easily and effortlessly respond to circumstances from a place of equanimity. The difference is it’s more intimate and immersive, and feels far more effortless and spontaneous. But you don’t stop eating or stand in front of buses etc.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake hahahah!
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake 🙏 that makes sense!
Imagine you identified as a character in a TV show. You sat on your couch in front of the TV watching this character. His problems became your problems. His emotions became your emotions. You completely forget yourself and you start thinking their life is your life. Your friend comes in and sees you are suffering and asks what's wrong. You say "I need to go to the business meeting, but everything is going wrong and I'm going to be late". He tries to explain that you're just sitting on a couch and that you're actually completely fine and have no meeting to attend. You have this sense that he's right, but fear that if you let go you won't make your meeting. But of course the second you "wake up" you realize it was just a TV show all along and of course the person in the show can keep going by themselves, well, there really was no person to begin with.
Angelo, this video of yours is like a cold couple o' slaps in the face. Thanks, I needed that.
Glad to hear it
Thank you Angelo. Is this practice similar to being in sensations?
I got it ,,,,,ore it îs already ,,got it,,
I feel into this. Yes. But how can you function in real life with this?!!!
In meditation yes! It applies perfectly and in some life situations also but not always! At least not clear to me right now!
For instance, I’m watching this video right now. That’s what is happening. But I need to work right now, this is a thought but if I apply equanimity here, I would not go back to work!! I would keep watching these videos! …
Are all of those thoughts and evaluations necessary during the time you've allotted not to partake of other distractions?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake the thought of I have to work,
if it's not taken seriously, or I don't pay attention to it, would cause me to not go to work! In a sense, It’s like cause and effect.
@@maryamsh28 so if you’re meditating right now (and you are going to work in the morning), and while you’re meditating a thought says “hey if you don’t paY attention to this thought right now you’ll forget to go to work tomorrow!” do you think you have to pay attention to that thought and the subsequent thoughts that follow so that you don’t forget to go to work tomorrow? What about all the times you were meditating or doing anything else 12 hours before work and you never even had that thought in the first place (so couldn’t pay attention to it), did you forget to go to work all of those times?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I get it,
I don't mean being lost in the thought world and paying attention to the stories of thoughts, those reflections in the mirrors... No! I mean when I wake up in the morning, a thought is telling me to go to work. If I want to not pay attention to that thought I would not do it... Or I should meditate now is another thought, then I meditate... Some decisions and actions are based on our 5 senses, like you hear something and turn your head or feel hungry and eat, but most of our decisions in this physical world as humans are thought-based
@@maryamsh28 if you wake up in the morning and have a thought that says “I should go to work” just don’t make a big deal of it. It might last a few seconds, so be it. All the rest thinking about thoughts is unnecessary bc as I pointed out above if you have a morning where you are not thinking about all of this you still go to work. It’s like magic.
who can decide to simply be? ...please tell me.
The answer to that question very much depends on your experience of moment to moment reality and what you are trying to accomplish. Are you trying to wake up? Are you trying to clarify experiential insights etc?
Specifically, do you experience a sense of agency at all?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake i guess i'm looking for the real me but all i find is an empty space.
@@bobmccarrell4518 then generally speaking, It isn’t particularly productive to ask or look forward a “who?” anymore bc it just leads back to awareness. At this stage it can be helpful to look into non-dual (subject-object construct) until it’s exquisitely clear that there are no physical boundaries in experience. So that nothingness or blank space that is found when inquiring into “who am I?” does not exist on its own as a background or a ground of being although at first it definitely seems like it does. With inquiry into the nature of the vivid sense fields and specifically where does formless awareness “meet” sound, colors, shapes etc. It’s similar to looking for the “I” in that you really have to look experientially , even for a while after it’s clear that you aren’t going to find a dividing line. At some point there is a very obvious “flip” where special experience basically goes away. It’s all the formlessness of awareness BUT with an added deeply intimate moment to moment clarity of non-special existence AND it’s instinctually clear that formless awareness on its own is actually a very subtle cognitive construct. My non-dual playlist or anything on the Bahiya Sutta addresses this directly.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake could you please clarify what do you mean by formless awareness is a subtle cognitive construct?
It's like you need a better production
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