The Secret to Awakening! (No Seriously)
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- In this non-comedy video, I reveal the secret of awakening. You won't laugh... this is very serious business. Life is very serious business, and awakening even more so :) So join us down the rabbit hole... don't worry you can't fall out of the Universe... or can you??
Book: Awake: It's Your Turn (Amazon)
Boom! That's what it was. I "surrendered." More accurately, there was surrender. Since then, nothing was left but this. Just me typing this and nothing next.
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Awesome! 💥💛🌺🏵🕊🧡
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I want to share a dream I had. I was going into surgery and for some reason they were going to remove my brain. I could hear myself telling them don’t, I will die. At that moment I felt my brain flop out of my skull. Then I realized that I still was. Inside of my skull was this vast, unexplored space and I felt a calm wash over me. Then, unfortunately I woke up. Isn’t that the most bizarre thing? I still was. It makes me feel like my mind gets in the way and to wake up I have to let it go. I’m still practicing. Thanks for another insightful session.
Wow that’s awesome 🤩
That's so cool!!! 💥🌺🕊🧡💥💢🐙🐡🥳
I had a similar dream. A woman probably in her 60s seemed to have lost patience with me and how I had abandoned the path. She forced herself towards me and we somehow merged and all that was left was the 2 vertical halves of my body, split apart, and I was the emptiness in-between (although I could feel the body also). I just though "Oh, yeah, I know this". I'd just not paid attention for a while but it was completely natural and really not anything noteworthy. Nothing was any different after that except I took the hint and got serious about whatever this path is.
Angelo, the biggest issue with me in recent times has been to realise that listening only happens in the now. Remembering listening is not listening, it's thinking. 'I'm listening...', is thinking! Such a vast open space has appeared, Angelo, and all I can say is that there seems to be a remembrance of deepest rest. Thank you Angelo.
Thank you for this video? I didn't realised till now that this is why I keep turning away from awakening, over and over for so many years now. I get so far and then for some reason something takes me back into the story and I loose interest in awakening again. I now know that its because there is this fear that isn't willing to let go of everything and that fear pulls my back into the story of me time and time again. Thank you for your clarity!
Yes!! When we don’t recognize fear as fear then the internal story teller spins is a story that we changed our minds 😅
There is nobody being pulled back into the story, which is also a story, feeding the artificial self. You are beyond all stories about "you".
Isn't it funny how completely lost the first version is? When speaking from groundlessness, remembering, even what was just said, becomes challenging! 😂
I loved this one. Laughed along with when you did about watching people jump.
Now, I just need to spot that cliff edge....again... ;)
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1:25 scared the shit out of me watching this right next to my face in the dark. Also, good video 😁
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Same here 🤣🤣🤣
💕 loved the music 🎶 marries nicely with this message. Thank you, Angelo. 🙏❤
Often quoted is ignorance to be solved by knowledge. But the knowledge is the ignorance.
Relative knowledge can never solve a problem in the absolute, a problem or matter of the nature of identity
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake smart man
Thanks so much for this, I came up to that edge without really knowing what was happing until after I backed away from it. I thought I was gonna die and was scared, I beat myself up every second of every day because my mind plays the trick on me telling me that was my one chance and even if I get that chance again I’ll blow it. It bothers me so much that I lose sleep over it. All I needed to hear was that it’s OK that I backed away to help calm me down a bit. I’ve been living with that shame for almost 10 years now there’s so much more I want to say and talk about I might have to get in contact with you somehow , I don’t know, thank you.
I can completely relate James. I also had to do some work on the feeling that "OMG! I was given the opportunity I blew it!!!" But those thoughts just become a fantastic opportunity to go into them, inquire and see that yep, it's just that same guy again (the ego/sense of separation) and realise we have no clue why anything happens and yet everything has its purpose in the unfolding. You having the experience happened to serve your awakening in some way and so did your fear and backing away. We don't have/can't have the ability to understand the movements of consciousness as manifestation. But we can know and trust that it is never, ever working against us.
The apparent owner of the mind is also the mind. The attacking mind and the attacked "me" are both creations of the mind, both illusions. You are not that. You are beyond that, untouched by the mind, undivided, unrelated, ever whole.
“All of it” The terror, the terror 🙀 👀😂 Thanks, that was spot on 🙏
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I've forced temporary egolessness on dmt before, the first few times it was like "oh shit what have i done, I want to come back down and live my daily life", but then once you die its seems absurd to think you've actually lost anything. Surrendering comes natural to me now.
Awesome.
Yeah I did that too and it scared the bejesus out of me.
Absolutely terrifying. I literally screamed outloud for a few minutes and then found something to hold onto which was my bird who I actually believed warned me before I took that second pull.
I was able to get grounded in my little reality using him and eventually calmed down.
If that’s what I’m looking at, I’m going to have to pass.
Following a suicide attempt in 2012 which was “successful” for an indeterminate amount of time I was in a hell realm.
Even after I was revived I stayed mentally in this hell realm for a while.
Both were equally terrifying.
DMT just left me with no ground and nothing to hold onto.
Definitely terrifying. The hell realm, well, what was happening there was much worse than nothing to hold onto. I’d opt for that over hell.
Thank you Angelo!
Welcome!
Willing for this......❤
A new way to get through this🙏
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Report to you ,when the jump has taken place😊
Oh man, I did that with my Sony camera before too. (Pulling the card out before the data finished writing) FYI: There are services out there that can recover these files 😊
Here is an experience I have only ever shared maybe twice in my life. Many years ago I had what is the only transcendent “vision” I can recall. I had been learning Buddhist meditation for about 3 weeks and, after a meditation session, lay down on my bed to relax. I closed my eyes and was instantly transported to some scene of brightness all around and I stood before a set of enormous, intricately carved doors like you might see as at an entrance to a cathedral. I “felt” the presence of 2 people/beings, one on each side of me and the doors swung inward and I was moved inside. In there it did look like a cathedral but one that had no end in any direction and I was stunned by the enormity of it. But what really hit me was the sound, It was like trillions of voices all emitting this one, unchanging, unbroken tone. It felt like this space was lined with all these souls, a choir of unimaginable size. Years later, after reading and hearing more about spirituality, I realized this chant/sound was probably what is called Aum. Just an unbroken “Aaaauuuuhhhhhhh” kind of sound. And then fear came. A fear I didn’t understand then but could only be described as an existential fear of dissolution. And I began to back away out of the door. These two beings seemed to be holding my arms, gently but firmly - almost pleadingly - and communicating that I needed to go inside, that they really wanted me to. But I was so afraid and backed away with even more force and they, with clear reluctance, let me go.
I awoke sitting bolt upright in my bed, deeply shaken by the experience. Hours had passed and it was now night so I crawled under the covers, feeling quite terrified and kindof praying, “Please don’t let me go back there, please don’t frighten me anymore”. I really was afraid of what would happen while I fell asleep and doubted I would be able to sleep. And then something very strange and beautiful happened. As I lay in the fetal position with eyes closed, I felt - powerfully and undeniably (even to a naturally skeptical person like me) - a form move in behind me, matching every contour of the back side of my body. Simultaneously, another form move into the front of my body, matching every contour. I just “knew” it was these same two beings from my vision. And they surrounded and immersed me in a sense of love, safety and warmth that I have never know previously or since. I felt so safe and loved and drifted off to sleep. I start to tear up just remembering it.
A few days later, I shared this experience with my meditation teacher. He became visibly angry, although he was trying to hide it. He said to me “Most of us wait an entire lifetime for such an experience, don’t expect you will ever have it again” (he was right 😂).
To this day, I feel a kind of longing and regret that I didn’t go forward. But not too much. Being afraid and giving in to that fear was all I could be in that moment. But I did want to tell those beings how sorry I was I couldn’t trust enough and thank them for looking after me. I don’t hold this experience aloft as anything other than what it was or look to reproduce it or aggrandize it but your video reminded me of this. I can’t help but wonder if that dalliance with that fear all those years ago might hold me in good stead the next time dissolution is on hand.
Thank you so much for your videos and generosity of time and effort, Angelo, and sorry for the long rant, Just wanted to share this little intimate event from my past as it came up so strongly for me now. That's what's wonderful about this space, this channel; we can share these things without the usual ridicule and disbelief.
I remember reaching a point where I had a clear decision. Let go of everything and go forward or hold on. I chose hold on. 23 years later, I'm ready to run to the edge and jump. I'm causing the people around me too much pain. (And myself.)
Thank you for sharing that beautiful story. Relax, have faith, trust the universe. It’ll happen when it’s supposed to happen ❤🙏
“When I let go of who I am, I become what I might be.” ~Lau Tzu
Long road to enlightenment judging by the thickness of your book, Angelo. Lol
lololol... I've seen it in a couple of year (liberation)
My god this feeling is following me so long and I am avoiding it since 16 years of age…It hasn’t been there now for a while … and now while I am reading your book and I was talking to a friend about it …it surprised me again in the middle of the talk…I couldn’t face it …I was so again scared but felt that it’s not death the first time…and then this video🙏thank you for speaking it out.
I want it and at the same time I am so scared…unbelievable!!!!!!!!
Solid! 👊
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When the student is ready the teacher appears. Love this.
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Really beautiful. I needed a cry and this helped. Many thanks for all the material!
You’re very welcome ☺️
Funny, on some level I decided and knew a long time ago that I needed to let go of my life as I knew it.
But I made an unwise choice of guides, so instead of surrendering into the embrace of reality, I made some kind of lateral/backward step from delusion straight into insanity.
If anything, I know more deeply than ever that true liberation requires letting go of life as I know it.
Thanks for being such a wise and true guide.
I’m ready, still and again…
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TBH A teacher on this journey is a blessing. I believe that i have always been on this journey - I have never felt settled with any story that my life was trying to fit me into. My master found me atleast 7 years ago. He readied me for today where I dont feel soo much of a struggle today at the precipice that I find myself. Since his help came with so much ease I dont fully appreciate it however I could not be more grateful. You are right that everyone that we come across that lights a candle within us is also a teacher. People who love us, people who hate us, people whom we hate or love everyone and also everything on this journey. Everything is placed there strategically by the universe to give us an opportunity to learn and move towards that truth which is undeniable. I am ever so grateful to everyone and everything for this beautiful journey! Thank you Angelo! sometimes hearing the raw truth is so liberating ! With a heart overflowing with love and gratitude for this wonderful life! ❤
Wonderful! Great to hear from you. Thx for sharing :)
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There was a moment "Gosh I don't know what more should I do. I give up. Hey wait a min, maybe I don't need to know. This moment is fine. We'll see the next moment when arrives. But isn't that cheating? Maybe. Fuck it."
Rabit hole, fears, confusions but also new SSA videos strategically timed. No clue whose strategy.
I know exactly what you are talking about. In the loop since you made this video😅and talking myself back into the stories of my life ,cause everything is so blissful and nice now.
But nevertheless i somehow don't exist anymore and if i go back to my job ,it's just a repeating loop. I know intuitively that i have to make the leap ...it's been pointed out from the gurus, but ,oh boy, I'm so good in talking myself out of it😂😂
But let's talk clear,how is this practically working?
Just stay in the place i live and do nothing except eating and shitting and practicing? 😅
That would create a waiting, wouldnt it?Sigh....
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Love this one, lol! I feel close to the edge and waiting to step off. Waiting for what I’m not sure. 💗
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thank you Angelo for all those marvelous videos. This one is just coming at the right time.
Feeling a strange feeling. Something is standing beside me and waiting for me to let go.
Such a strange feeling, like a subtle fear.
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Was the destruction of the first recording a mistake? Hypothetically.
Also,
I love that you laughed while explaining people going off the edge. 😂
Well it’s like the most fun you can have 😂😂
Awakening freedom recovery call it what you want even the magical word enlightenment is the perfect secret. It can never be told and at the same time there is no secret. There is a Hindu quote I like. The scriptures cannot help you and when realised the scriptures are not needed. The same applies to practices.
By the way Alcoholics Anonymous / Narcotics Anonymous is a philosophy school teaching freedom. I then went to a philosophy school to learn more but saw the same thing as AA. The school had flowers on the table and better biscuits but the people were no where near as humble and genuine as the AA members.
I have a friend Paul Hedderman who does a ton of work in the AA community but is also a non-duality speaker :). great guy
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Everything practical and meaningful thing has come from Paul Hedderman. Top man cuts through the spiritual bullshit. Think I owe that man something ans still listen to him. Love his opening comments on Huang Po in Paul’s seeing talk. By the way the people at the philosophy school used to laugh at me.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Travelling lighter without Dave as Paul says.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Paul's cool, and walks his talk. We were briefly roommates when I lived in Marin several years back.
@@_PL_ I like your videos obviously I think you are genuine. Sometimes say I will make my own video debunking the bull shitt***.
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Thank you so much !!! You are really kind ...
Just wanted the fear to go away.. didn't realize that I had just walked back from the edge... 😧
you might be surprised next time if its far milder or just not there, or you wait it out and it becomes calm :)
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I needed this one. I don’t really feel like I’m consciously dealing with fear, but I must be subconsciously because it’s been coming up in dreams a lot for me lately. Like I had a dream that I woke up and started going about my day, only to realize I was in another dream. That kept happening over and over (like dreams within dreams) and it was terrifying. Even when I actually woke up, I was disoriented and didn’t quite know if I was still dreaming. I must have some deep fears about not knowing what’s “real” and what’s not. 🤷🏼♀️. I can’t thank you enough for this UA-cam channel. My son sees your videos on my UA-cam feed and refers to you as “that meditation dude with the cool hair”. 😆
Your son has great taste! 😆
You might like the video I recorded today, I will upload tomorrow :)
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Indeed he does! ☺️. Cool, I’ll be looking forward to it.
You should watch Waking Life, directed by Richard Linklater.
❤ funny how this popped into my feed right after today's video. 🙏
Perfect!
This triggers longing and nostalgia
A few years ago I had a series of unexplained episodes that sporadically and spontaneously happened unprovoked which now make me wonder. I had 4 and they all shared the following :
1) completely fine, calm, normal prior to. Daylight happening. Wide awake
2) loud ringing in one ear before losing the sense of sound
3) Extreme panic and fear of dying
4) searing physical pain - can't speak
Or walk which amps up fear
5) extreme emotional release, flooding memories and room spinning. It feels like a buzz saw is going off in my body. I have cried and prayed for my life to be spared during these thinking this is it!
These events were checked out by doctors and had tests scans ekg etc and no cause was found so lumped as a panic attack which never sat right because they were completely random and happened spontaneously when I was totally calm lol. Since they occurred, I've not experienced a complete event which usually lasts for one day (some panic attack lol!) edit - acute pain phase was not the whole day lol (1-1.5 hrs) then the "recovery" phase is about a day, mewling in a foetal position unable to eat drink talk move etc. Sounds insane hey?
But occasionally I get a slight phasing out sensation which is very imperceptible in hearing every so often. It has always been a mystery lol.
Yes this is a very mysterious process and truly happens in so many ways. Sometimes totally unprovoked! Regardless of how that occurs, the key is being willing to tune into the living truth that is coming forth in one’s life and continue to feel everything, let go where necessary and plunge ever deeper into the mystery :)))
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Absolutely!! 😁☝️
Hello Angelo, I feel like ive kind of reached this place today (its kind of funny that you posted this video today also) where I think I'm no longer trusting the relative mind that arises in everyday life that creates the sensation of time and with it a separate identity. but doesn't that mean giving up everything results in the giving up of the practice also? this might have been already answered in the video but do I give up both sides and replace the activity of mind with inquiry? your videos are always so concise and seem to cut through ignorance very well thank you!
Yes letting go of practice as a thought as well. However as a momentary act of surrender and willingness to go beyond thought/concept/mind/world this inquiry continues….
I guess the only thing I'm scared of with diving deep isn't the obvious things; I don't care about status, career, I have no huge responsibilities (single, childless, late 30s, busking around Europe for money after having had many different jobs and lived in different countries). I do sense that anything 'out there' isn't the answer, and I have a deep deep desire for truth. What I am scared of is loosing interest in the things that bring me joy and that I want to get better at (artistic pursuits). Is it fair to say that if it is truly the most authentic expression of yourself those pursuits stay post awakening? And that if you naturally loose interest it is that you weren't meant to carry on exploring those skills?
I think I had a similar experience after a mushroom trip. The mushrooms had pretty much worn off and I was laying in bed trying to sleep. I was really anxious for some reason and it was causing lots of pain in my stomach; I was getting acid reflux very bad. I tried to meditate and the pain went away almost immediately, and it became very clear that my thoughts were causing physical harm on my body. My mind kept getting calmer and calmer until there was complete silence. I started to feel the boundaries between my body and blankets disappear, it felt like my body was literally being absorbed back into the universe, becoming "matter", exactly like what the bed is made of. My body was so relaxed that I eventually started freaking out because I thought I was "shutting down" and dying, and I remember my thoughts booting up again, thinking that my thoughts had to be there to keep all my organs functioning haha. I didn't know this was a common experience or what it meant, but it convinced me that the body mind connection is very deep and that it's possible for my mind to cause physical harm.
Thanks for the videos, they really resonate with me and are renewing my interest in "the path"
❤just beautiful ❤
Standing at the edge, where the sidewalk ends...
Great place to be… nose to nose with the deep mystery 🌫
They don’t want you to know this one weird trick to awakening, and I swear this isn’t clickbait…😂 Seriously though, whenever I used to hear someone say to surrender, I could never figure out who was supposed to surrender what to whom? Maybe it’s different for everyone, but the thing that helped me the most was to surrender my attachment to thought. Once I was able to trade focusing on thoughts for focusing on direct sensory experience, things began to shift. Not all at once, but little by little, with a few jumps thrown in for good measure.
Good advice 🎉
Marvelous
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Thank you
I want to let go, but how do I do it? I close my eyes, and I want nothing more than to let go of everything, and yet I am stuck with this self. Honestly, I don't care anymore. I am done with myself. I am not suicidal, but I would be fine with not living. I say that to say, I am pretty sure I am at that level of letting go that you speak of, and yet here I am speaking from the mind and the ego. Help please lol
The funny thing is that I think most people have already experienced no separate self, and it just wasn’t that big of a deal. If you’ve ever “lost yourself” in a book or a movie, or been “in the flow”, where it seemed like your body was on autopilot and was just doing its thing with no “you” controlling anything, then guess what. That was the experience of no separate self. Congratulations! On the flip side, make a mistake in front of an audience and you’ll quickly become very conscious of your self, i.e., self-conscious. Once you’ve seen that the sense of self comes and goes, it becomes easier and easier to see through the illusion.
5:20 Profound 🙏
brilliant
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So that kid in “Love Actually” was right - “That’s the end of my life as I’ve known it.”
And yes, ALL of it!!
Or in a more serious vein - as St Paul put it, “I die daily.”
I can see your light inside my chest. I know who I am beyond the superficial self. I have been up against that death fear a number of times in various ways, once while being engulfed in light & other times just in the depths of space. But I have resisted going beyond it. Can you speak more about the "new way to go through this" or speak more about what to do when facing that fear.
maybe i'll make a vid about it. I've addressed it in various places but can't remember exactly where at the moment
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Fab!
What's odd about this practice is that, "who am I?" does absolutely nothing for me but, "where am I?" gets a process going.
Because in experience (without using thought) - I can know I'm right here & always have been. But I don't know where right here actually is - I have no idea!? 😂 So simultaneously I know I'm right here but every relationship to that know is just another thought. In experience I am both right here & cannot say where I am - it's a paradox. The conceptual mind keeps spinning around trying to make sense of it but it cant!
Furthermore, if I can be right here but can say absolutely nothing about where here is - but where is over there? Again, I can experience a sound "over there" - but that's another concept. I actually cant say where over there is nor say anything about anything in relation to any other location. It's experiencable but its not what the conceptual mind says about it.
Likewise - searching the sense feilds to exhaustion I cant actually find any place in experience where and I is. It's just senses and awareness. And the sense is the awareness. The objects all awareness too! The awareness of awareness.
Everything about physical space is just a concept - in experience it's just here and elsewhere without being either location. So it's also nowhere
I spent months having no luck playing around with Zen koans - I should have just asked where I was!
I came to the edge and it scared the living hell out of me. I thought, "Will I disappear? Will I ever find my way back?" The insane field of light and high octane energy didn't help, either. Oh, well....
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Thanks Angelo for your persistence and determination ! :)
It îs not about Me,,,,to let go,,,it îs about a lot of images and thoughts and emotions colected by the mind which now i can see them,,,what a relief,,!! Yes ,,,,the real Let go îs about to let go both life and death ,both body and mind ,,,amuch more releaf,,,__
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I'm feeling like I am finally ready to 'let go'
Awesome 😎
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thank you. I found you at a time shortly after a disruptive trauma happened in my life. I feel the pull to answer my inner call. I think it found me first and I've been fighting it with disastrous results.
I'm so glad I found you. You are able to say the things I need to gain traction. I love your delivery, thank you, thank you, thank you ❤️
@@novafamily8430 you’re very welcome
Sometimes before I fall asleep I actively try and let everything go in my mind. I get this sensation that I’m going to black out or something weird/not good is happening to my brain - and I pull back. Seems to only happen before falling asleep. Could this be it? I thought I was straining some thing - LOL! It happens to a much lesser degree in sitting meditation once in a while. Any feedback is appreciated!
let it take you
Thanks - I’ll see you all on the other side of the (gateless) gate ; )
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I had to pause it at 1:15 because of chills. I have been saying this for the last couple weeks. "It's time! It's time!".
I haven't watched the rest but it better not be a fucking joke. Lol.
It's TIME!
I was a coke addict and the character had become a foul disgusting thing. Easy to want rid of that but without that realisation who knows. One night I watched my lovely partners life being destroyed by this foul thing who didn’t give a f*** for her only what it wanted. I am better without me.
Fierce grace eh? Sometimes the worst if conditions bring about this miraculous transformation. Goo point ad to hear things improved in the relative sense as well :)
Hello, do you reply to messages sent through your website?
when I can get to it I usually do,. It's getting herder tho
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake okay:) thankyou. I had just asked about individual meetings.
I really like his content but the haircut makes me doubt it all
😂😂 That’s my favorite. I don’t get it as often as the dislike of the shirts, music, backgrounds, and speech pattern… but every once in a while…
Beyond death is everlasting "life" undeath if you will. Heaven hell purgatory reincarnation nothingness it's all real.
Indeed!
Let me pleaaase know if anyone awakens because of Videos like this...dont mean to sound rude. But i think awakening is a Kind of accident...
“Enlightenment is an accident. Spiritual practice makes you accident-prone.” I didn’t have an awakening experience while watching any videos, but I believe that working through the various exercises in videos and books helped lay the groundwork for the experiences I did have later. The exercise that I think helped the most was to walk in nature and focus on direct sensory experience instead of on thoughts. Doing various Headless Way exercises also helped me see that nondual experience is omnipresent, but is usually simply ignored.
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