Courage is Saying F*ck You to the Social Matrix
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It’s funny and endearing
One of your life experiences is putting people to sleep and the other is encouraging them to wake up!
😂😂😂 nice.
What a hilarious insight.
That's a mind fuck lol
To the person who said: “it’s so much harder to do inquiry when there’s someone else around.” I get it. Relationships take up a lot of time. But the cool thing about inquiry is that you can do it on-the-fly, here and there. It’s not like Jhana practice where you need long periods of sitting in silence. Whatever you’re doing can become inquiry: “who is cleaning” - “what is driving this car” - “where are these thoughts appearing” - “what does the ‘I’ refer back to” etc. I’ve found it to be a portable tool. Also, an interesting fact: most people on the self inquiry retreats I’ve been on have had the Awakening (kensho / Satori) outside of the meditation hall. Usually it’s while walking in the grounds or while in bed dreaming and they literally wake up and True Nature is known. Or sometimes at home after the retreat is finished they go home and it just spontaneously happens. It’s not something that has to be worked out in a focused way. 😊
The mind keeps wanting to participate in the awakening process, like it's trying to manage the process. Then when there's an inkling of realization, the mind jumps up saying "ooooo! is that it?.... is that it?..... is that it???" Ultimately, that "it" never seems to arrive and I'm left with thinking that the mind has no understanding, but that's where this realization or awakening process ends. It's very confusing.
OMG EXACTLY!
Well said. I wonder whether that's why meditating the body-mind into more peacefulness and equanimity help with this process. Maybe the "crazed" brain co-opts true insights as soon as they happen, and the more relaxed it is, the more time there is for those insights to "sink in".
@@czarlito_ That's just more mental masturbation...let it go
@@czarlito_I think it does actually. I can only speak from my own experience here. One evening Adyashanti’s words just rang in my mind : “just allow everything to be exactly how it is” so I’ve sat down in silence and just allowed me, myself and I to be exactly how it is, no fighting the current state, no resistance. All of the sudden the activity of the mind just stopped and then magic happened. I had a momentary glimpse of the truth and while it did not last long as the mind came back online almost immediately, it was enough to keep me going until now 😊
I can relate to this...a lot.
The pointing instructions that clicked for me were the complete opposite of what everyone recommends, I read a random reddit comment that said something like "Sit down and actively try to be UNAWARE, if you become aware of anything at all you lose and have to try again".
Very quickly you realize that it's impossible NOT to be aware, because your very nature is awareness.
Love it!
haha this is similar to a video I was watching earlier today on Sense Without Mind channel, he was saying "there is only now", "check it- try to leave now" I had great fun trying to leave the present moment (spoiler I didn't manage it) it was very confirming strangely
Just plain effing wonderful.
Thank you for your commentary Angelo. What I find the most helpful while encountering my shadow are actually your videos about mind identification and meditation, also meeting my own pain with love and acceptance. The acceptance part is hard when body and psyche tantrums in tandem yet the very little part of me stays conscious and watches the cyclone while it’s happening. A year ago there was no conscious me present in that story. Now I feel (when I can 😂) and dis-identify (when I can) and it works. Slow process but worth it for sure as I can clearly see that my suffering is a mechanism that has been created and I now know it can also be un-created with practice.
Many thanks to you as I find your teachings and book super helpful 🙏🏻
Ps. The supreme ice cream search never ends… I’ve been roaming the Earth for centuries hoping to find the ultimate flavour of liberation 😂
If PTSD is a pathological association with thought then how do we explain a prominent teacher we all know to be liberated developing it so severely that he had to quit teaching.
Which teacher was this? I am curious to know. I suffer from it myself.
Awesome answers Angelo! One of the things I've noticed recently is that I am much more open to go to people and ask instead of just ruminating on a question and never asking because of being completely afraid of confrontation. I still feel that nervousness when talking to someone for some reason but it's a lot easier to actually approach and it happens with zero thinking about it beforehand. In other words, I don't imagine conversations anymore too.
Wonderful!
No dollar amount could show my immense gratitude and appreciation for everything “you” have done for “‘me” 😊
I have found doing inquiry in any daily task or any moment of sensation to be so expansive and creates an ease into the “struggle “ of life.
I like to ask myself almost jokingly “but from what point am I even sensing or experiencing this??”
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I’m an ER doc and last night I took a very normal history from a patient with abdominal pain, right before I left the room I asked “oh do you have any medication allergies?” And they replied “sometimes my hand get cold “
….Mu!
The path has been quite solitary today. I had a very melancholic dream. I know I have the capacity for the sadness, but the mind still feels like it needs to make sense of it, even as the world keeps turning and the dream fades further from my memory.
Enneagram fear points are 5,6,7, 2,3,4 are image points, and 1,9,8 are anger points. But everyone has fear, anger, and image. The Enneagram is a powerful system to see the primary fixation of the ego-how the ego identifies at its root. Seeing your Enneagram point deeply helps you wake up from it.
‘mind on tilt’ I was doing my taxes years ago and reach a line that said “if your child has been kidnapped go to line 49.” My mind stopped , for days. I was working through abuse memories with a therapist and went to her snd said’ I’m not crazy, the world is’ she said when you really get that, you’ll be fine. Thanks . I had no names for these things, lots of them. Thought hi was crazy.
Everthing you post seems so synchronised with what’s going for me atm ! 😲 it’s wonderful ! !👌💯🥰
thank you! right first answer - about having no agenda spiritually and in practical life was so on point to this moment, loved it
You're so welcome!
The acclimation was as intense as the remnants left of self-will. Thank you!
Just realizing now how this really does get easier as it progresses in terms of time. As the illusion of time disappears it becomes easier to get past thoughts like "this is taking too long"
So much easier to sustain practice when it doesn't feel like there's any wasted time
Living fully outside the matrix 👍
I really feel grateful for having you in this.
That makes 2 of us.
I third this
Please 🙏 ANY advice for someone who just can’t seem to shake a habit. Beer namely. I feel I just can’t say no. I get these waves of motivation lasting a couple weeks to a month but I always come back. Long family line of drinkers. Idk WTF to do. I’m exhausted from the fight. The guilt, shame, success ⭕️ lap is so boring and predictable. I’m just done trying to quit. Fck it
Perhaps Alcoholics Anonymous. Paul Heddermanis a sober nondualist who got sober in and stays sober using AA’s 12 step process as well as the other standard suggestions in the AA program.
I’m sober 10 years myself using 12 step process.
I will tell you this, non-duality is not the answer for alcoholism. I know because I tried to use it, many have.
I’m also not saying you’re alcoholic, only you can determine that.
Maybe read the book called Alcoholics Anonymous.
This is from a page in the book:
“If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.”
I hope that helps somewhat. Alcoholism is something I have 35 years of lived experience with.
I’ve been expanding and enlarging my sober experience with nondual awakening and all that goes along with that for my entire sobriety.
Check out Paul Hedderman I guess. He’s a solid guy with plenty of experience and great wisdom for both people who are having trouble with alcohol and NonDuality as well.
Good luck ❤
A.A. fellowship and literature woke me up 2.5 years into my sobriety. That and Christian mysticism, specifically Franciscan way.
Yesterday I was walking thinking about my morning meditation and an inquiry came (won't try to explain it) which led me to a striking realization : I never was this person 😮 It wasn't that I was becoming this person less and less through shadow work or by seeing what I really am more and more, I WAS NEVER this person. I have known for a while that this little me is not who I am, but I had not seen the illusion through and through... not only this person isn't who I am, this person doesn't exist! There is only "I" (playing a game here 😉) 😂
love it !
Love this format also. 💙🙏
Thank you ❤
Yea I liked this type of q and a. Thank you 🙏
Astounded to see this title, as my mantra the last two days has been , “F*ck you.” Its effects are pretty remarkable. After a while, the “victimized ego,” loses the sense of being a victim and becomes empowered and centered. Whatever adversity comes at me is now met with an unapologetic and resounding, “F*ck You.” This is one of many times, for me, that you’ve put out a specific video that seems to correspond to my direct experience and mental content exactly as it’s happening. But to see, “F*ck you.” What are the odds? 😂. Thank you!
"F*ck you" or Mu🤣
Thanks Angelo 🙏
I like these videos and your live streams the best.
, this really is a great format.
Thank you so much, Angelo!
Preach brother 👊
Thank you, this video was very helpful to my awakening process.
The 4/4 insight! That will stick with me, thank you caller. 😉
THAT WAS MEEEE YAAYYY. FAMOUS!!!!!
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Title topic is perfect timing for me. Thank you for your regular content.
Also want to say the retreat last month was a powerful catalyst for me. Grateful for you hosting them.
great questions, great responses...cheers
U R Awesome!
My hang up obviously, but saying “the money isn’t in…’ is a yucky feeling analogy🙏
Angelo, we’d love to see you in Australia and we’ll reward you with our beautiful sun, sea and sand and put a little colour on your pale skin. Please come and see us soon. 😎
Wow! Grazie mille, Angelo! You answered my question in such a detailed way 🙌🙏 I really appreciate it and this is super helpful. I will continue to put the attention deeply into the emotions as they come up in uncomfortable situation and I fully believe it will lead to greater and greater freedom over time 🙂
Thank you for these videos, I am not sure where I am at in the process but I can feel the truth in your messages.
Thank you...these Q &A videos are great!🎉🎉🎉
Just finished your book Angelo and just wanted to ask if using the terms - 'surrendering' to openness, salvation and liberation - come from mystical Christianity? I'm not religious but I remember Sunday school and the lessons of surrendering to Jesus for salvation. Thank you for all your guidance, it is all much appreciated.
I live pretty well outside the social matrix. Often many days go by without seeing or talking to anyone at all. I have no agency in that respect. But I do have agency! I make sure there are no visible insects in any wood I put on the fire :)
"Just Right" that came up for me before watching this...in the goldilocks story..not too hard, to soft.. as a sort of compass. Lol ty as always
💣💣💣🎯🎯🎯 This 💎🌊👉❤👈 These diamond waves pointers are bombs. Great gratitude for your Hereness,Isness beyond the words we merge
When you say the sense gates are our access point to reality (paraphrasing), what I am confused about is, anything we perceive by way of the senses, this is always going to be a representation, our mind/brain's best approximation or interpretation, right? I get that it's not that there is a 'thing out there' and then a rendering of it... I think. I guess the answer is that the perception is all there is, however it is. Maybe it's not even accurate to call it a representation, since there is no thing represented. The experience, is the experience, is the experience. And that is the only reality to be experienced in experience. Right? Would so appreciate guidance on this point!!!!!!!
The representation of the the senses you mentioned is all thought stuff. Ask yourself Is there an experience of a brain in direct perception or does that require thought.
Hearing you answer my comment gave me joy 😊
I'm gonna up my comments now to get featured more often because I'm an attention whore and need the validation 😋 Gonna create alias accounts too 🤣🤣
Love this! This is very fun and helpful. Thank you for taking the time to do this. Angelo’s answer to everything-Keep waking up!! It’s funny because it’s so true. 😊❤
Glad it was helpful!
This one has dharmma daddy energy written all over it, and we are here for it.
Your content is next level fire. Took me years through the process of spiritual maturation to be able to connect with and begin to understand non-duality. Audience questions are also next level fire. Glad I found this channel.
Welcome to the channel :))
Loving the facial hair and the color of it!
Angelo is embodying the Sage archetype in his physical form, and I'm here for it.
He's on his way to Gandalf/Dumbledore
@@CasenJames He'll need a deeper voice for that to happen.
Through observing my body sensations I have come to a place without hope. This feels so radical at times that the mind thinks: I cannot stand this. Nowhere to go and nothing to do.
Yes energetic restlessness 🫠😖
Thank you this was very helpful. On hearing you mention the enneagram I am compelled to give reference to the Enneagram of Liberation by Gangaji’s husband Eli Jaxon-Bear it’s very different from personality based enneagram teachings. His focus is on each specific fixation to help unlock and see past identification to source. It’s a book but also part of the Leela school courses. 💖💖💖
It’s masterful and powerful.
There’s a lot of talk on the internet about “ follow your excitement “ but I’m starting to see excitement as a rabbit hole distraction , so just trying to observe it , could you say anything about this please ??❤️
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Mamalian social order, love it ❤😂
For years, I've been following the teachings of those who say "Thoughts become things, you create your own reality with thoughts." Visualization exercises, "law of attraction" type teachings. The idea of this felt empowering, but I never mastered it. In fact, I seemed to "manifest" all the stuff I hate, or the opposite of what I thought I wanted. Then I had years of very intense physical symptoms of anxiety, which led me to finding things like "The Release Technique", which helped me tremendously, then I found Mooji, who says "stay as the witness, don't create anything." I was doing Dr. Joe Dispenza's meditations, which often focus on "creating your future self/personality." I wonder what you think of those types of things. I am burned out, but can't give up, for some reason. I also have had extreme instances where "something took me over" and I acted violently. That was helpful to hear that you understand that state of being, but I still have so much guilt. Maybe there is no "I", but violence occurred and someone was hurt. I am new to your teachings, but ever so grateful to have found you.
I also started with mooji and now watch this channel its like its built and expanded on and even clarified on everything I learnt with mooji
Hey Joe :) I started out on the spiritual path through manifestation/ LOA. But, after manifesting everything I thought I wanted, I was still totally dissatisfied with life. Because I was trying to find satiation through feeding the ego, the insatiable thought system within the mind. Expecting to be saved through serving the wrong master. So, the book A Course in Miracles miraculously came into my life ~ a highly sophisticated book on the non-dual nature of reality. It teaches that the foundation of the ego's thought system is guilt, so we feel terrible when we believe in egoic thoughts. But in Truth, you are not the ego, and you are totally innocent no matter how many stories it spins to make you feel guilty. There is nothing to feel guilty about, because nothing bad ever really happens in the form. Nothing good either for that fact. And there is another thought system you can tap into, the thought system of your true identity as Spirit, or your Self with a capital S. The book teaches you how to connect with the divine within, it truly is a gift. Wishing you all the best on your journey.
Dear Yvonne, Your timing could not be more perfect, and I am ever so grateful that you took the time to share this. I actually have started reading the Course in Miracles, and doing the daily lessons. I've been second-guessing whether it was just another wild goose chase of the ego, and I have been struggling with it. It feels so foreign. For instance, today's lesson is "My holiness blesses the world". What a lovely idea, but it doesn't feel true. it's hard to believe that I am holy. I will keep reading the book and doing the lessons anyway, even when they don't make sense. Thank you so much for your generosity. Truly, I needed that little nudge to keep going. I was about to give up on it.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you! There is something magnetic about this channel, that is pulling me in. Confirmation that others have shared and are experiencing is so appreciated for me right now. To hear about this clarity that you mention is huge. 🙏🙏🙏🙏@@Klazi
@@joep2796 Aw wow, I’m so glad to hear. Nothing happens at random, I felt a strong prompt to comment. The text wrote itself. I get that the book is not totally easy to understand at first, but it’s almost like you don’t have to fully understand it. Allow its poetry to open up your heart and mind, allowing your higher Self to make the transformation happen for you. There are also some great course teachers on UA-cam who break down the high level metaphysics. David hoffmeister is my teacher. It’s a path through the darkness to the light. Keep going, love and light to you❤️
Do conversations feel like you're perpetually telling little lies with people? I dislike answering "How are you?" because not only am I marring experience (making little of how much happens in a day or day-to-day living) but I am partaking in the social matrix by answering with socially-accepted prescripted responses.
How do questions get posted to your question list?❤
You just did it!
That’s funny! ❤️
F**k you social matrix, can't catch me hehehehe
🖕beats 🙏 some of the time ;)
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Trying to do shadow work after first Awakening without knowing why it didn't seem to be working. I realised id put my heart❤ in Davy Jones locker couldn't feel much.Not much suffering but not much joy either very flat emotionally.Aha! It out twas just a trick
angelo when you're awake is it like your're dying every moment?
Oh god, movement with no afterthought is so weird and scary. Do you have any tips for that? I feel like my body is moving on its own and I've got no control. That is afterthought right? Anyways that's new to me and I'd like to know what to do or where to look to make this easier for myself
So the difference between experiencing episodically and periodically is that realisation is a permanent shift? Because it's clear I experience it episodically and periodically and experience it a LOT. I use experience colloquially. I know what you mean. But I also love to think without being identified with thought (though there are also thoughts that are not pure mechanistical thinking so I am not realised). Thinking is rich as a sense in and of itself. I'm sure you're still thinking, you're just not attached to it. Thinking as a tool instead of a master. But I agree this is insidious.
I am or have been a deeply analytical person but over the years it has gone down a huge amount. There's a lot more living in the moment and letting things unfold or maybe I'm just winging it but he seat of my pants (this is what I used to think when I used to this, before I had to have it all planned out and be on top of things which I enjoyed but I've just changed, just more relaxed about it all). I wonder if something is happening gradually or maybe it's just relaxation, because that's all it is.
It was so uncanny getting my name mentioned when I wasn't even expecting it. Thanks for answering my question Angelo.
Btw do you have anything to say about OCD and intrusive thoughts in particular? I used to have really bad OCD and still have intrusive thoughts at certain times. There seems to be an 'energetic' blockage around certain things that I cant get past.
Interesting because I have religious based OCD and my brain has always tried to figure out what or how that plays into awakening. Like is it a tool to use or is it simply suffering for suffering sake? It’s very tough also not to feel like my brain possess me with its agenda. Is it my shadow? Hmmm🤔
So, to put it very simply: after awakening one still retains the capacity to engage in work, or even plan for the future, right? Or use imagination as a tool if that's what's required? I'm asking this as someone who has real issues with getting stuff done and has a strong tendency to just sit around and contemplate the present moment, etc. But planning and executing often seems like a monumental task. Perhaps it's perfectionism, so there's an actual desire to create, engage with life but also a persistent belief in my own helplessness, lack of control over my life in the relative, practical sense. How do I work with that? Question the "I" who believes is helpless? Or the motivations?
Another question is the issue of 'personal boundaries' understood as a functional, customary social thing (eg. Not being a people pleaser, which I often tend to act like) versus the fundamental boundlessness /the nonexistence of the person? How do I work with that?
" seemless" or "seamless"?
Both
What would you suggest when it comes to psychopaths and sociopaths (both are psychopaths), as they don't have the ability to empathise with anybody or anything?
They can wake up :)
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake That's interesting, thanks
I'm not that exercised about the social matrix. I have people I can be authentic with who accept me. Don't need more.
But there's a part of my ego that's still digging in, saying, "So I'm just stuck like a fly in amber in some multi-dimensional ever-transforming, never-transforming object of no time and no space with no purpose? I have no agency and I'm not even allowed to ask who came up with the whole thing or why? (Or apparently I won't care at some point -- and how is that different from being incurious and accepting my fate with pure faith like a religious fanatic?) And so what if I do surrender? It doesn't seem to matter anyway, since everything is already written…"
Fully accepting the universe, war crimes and all, feels like Dr. Pangloss constantly chirping to Candide that this is the "best of all possible worlds."
I know that's the most cynical possible interpretation. (Hello childhood trauma.) Even after doing so much shadow work, it still pops up between the cracks at the slightest chance. Especially when I feel vulnerable -- when I feel close.
I guess it's not anyone's job to sell me on the universe. Other parts of me know it's all a gift, magnificent beyond all reckoning, and so much more than any human can begin to enjoy and appreciate in thousands of lifetimes.
But my little ego still (quite hilariously) seems to think it's a savvy and canny maverick who’s going to outsmart the universe, if only it hangs on long and hard enough and thinks hard enough. Sigh. It's OK, habibi. I'm here for your frightened delusions. I love you, too.
Wow. It’s me I hear in your comment.
Awesome. Once again, even tho there’s only 1 of us here, I am not alone.
Ive listened to and felt similar narrations. It can be so awful at times, especially when I’m identified with it and it’s so godd**n believable too because of the feelings that come with it. For me anyway.
Cynicism, horrendous depressions, nihilism and pointlessness, hopelessness these are a few of my minds favorite things.
Thanks for sharing all that. You’re not alone and now I don’t feel so alone either so it’s a win. One might even say it’s perfect. lol ❤
Great video. Thanks.
Check out the Oscar’s nominated Japanese movie “Perfect Days”. It’s about a man living in a perfect state and living life. It’s difficult to describe but absolutely beautiful.
hello viewers of simply always awake, I have a question for you all or anyone here, what, if any, changes have you noticed in your facial expressions/eyes during this path? something I think about semi-regularly as its very fascinating to look into all the eyes of these teachers but I don't see anyone rlly talk about it, they look crazy (crazy as in crazy cool)
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Do you think about what you're saying?
Or do you always just speak?
Nobody thinks about what they’re saying. Thought might tell you later that’s what happened. Thoughts think themselves, speech speaks itself. It comes from nowhere, goes nowhere. Is nowhere.
@@renko9067 ah ok thanks, so you're still thinking about what you say, it's just you're not identified with it.
@@AlastairGames I’m not able to word it better than I did in my first comment. Seems like it’s a good area of inquiry for you.
Surrender means there is no longer any restlessness. Surrender means you know through every fiber of your being that there is no one here living a life, there is Life flowing through the body-mind personality, for as long as it lasts. TRy not to laugh at this 😂😅😂
How is it possible to fully get what you say, vids and book, yet be so far away from even a shade of awakening. Ha! The joke’s on me. Huh??
I don't think you are a two.
soothing.. but not as U.G.Krishnamurti does. He still rules.
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Thanks for sharing.
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