Angelo been watching you from mid 2022, got your book and watched your interviews, I don't always comment but just want to say on behalf of othjers too, it's hugely appreciated what you're doing here. Thankyou
Ramana Maharshi comes to mind, in his inquiry analogy, about a thought being used like a wooden stick stirring a fire. Thoughts and concepts of spirituality are used as a tool before they are ultimately destroyed. This message tells us that it's OK to toss the stick in the fire.
I don't think you know how good you are, Angelo. I'm so glad this is recorded. Your pointing is so... obvious/relatable, like a friend is saying something soothing as well as revolutionary!! I know you don't want it or care about it, but you should/and will be, I believe, talked of with Eckhart and the likes at the least. Thank you, thank you my friend! Just awesome 👌. Right outa the park again and another step closer to realizing.... W.T.F. IS going on.. lol God bless
A mental cue to allow thoughts to pass is no longer required. BTW, re-reading your book. It’s precisely the same book I would write; if I was more intelligent, articulate, literate, organized, and knowledgeable. Oh, maybe I would have added some cartoons. 😊 Looking forward to your post-awakening book, Angelo.
I've tasted this when I'm sitting and meditating in deep relaxation... it's a wonderful feeling... Hakuna matata! That's what came to my mind after listening to this! ... Ohh the jabali! An emoji suggestion! 😉❤️
I watch almost all your videos and this one specifically is a VERY potent pointer. It's amazing how much you are able to talk about something so ineffable. Much love
You do not have to think about anything .... it is a thinking itself. You do not have to do anything with thoughts ......it is itself is a thought and doing. There is someone who says these words. You do not have to react with thoughts.... .it is a suppression of one who reacts. I am no thought ... is thought itself I am nobody ... it is a concept in subtle way.
Hi Angelo, can you elaborate more on Work and financial insecurity, as this comes lately with full force and fear of not being able to maintain family and basic needs. I mean all is good on the nonduality front if I have enough to get by. Recently my body refuses to do the work on the workplace (I am a programmer) and its sooooo mundane, so pointless, the body just refuses, it says NO and I just take sick leave or emergency leave days. The brain shuts down and goes to watching youtube videos or just laying in bed staring at the walls or semi conscious nap. What should I do, should I quit my job, I will probably get fired sooner or later anyway. But getting the same income (and I need it for a number of reasons) how to reorient, a change is much needed and fear also comes for the next 8 hours tomorrow doing pointless coding. I think this is very important topic to be covered. Financial insecurity and intermittent shutdowns on the workplace, well at least it seems important for the apparent me but I think a lot of people suffer being slaves to the system we are put in. Work, consume, sleep, repeat. Probably I should just count on life taking care of the body and responsibilities but not sure this will happen at all, more likely it will just get worse. Thank you.
During your next day at work you could set a timer for every 15mins for you to stop and bring your attention out of your work and into your body. Feel your feet on the floor, follow your breath, relax. And you can make up new challenges for yourself each day. Can you make someone laugh? Can you notice 3 kind things that other people did today? Can you have lunch with someone new today? Little things that made a huge difference for me. All the best!
It's not the thoughts, it's that thoughts evoke a variety of emotional labels and feelings that swarm around them. It's like pilot fish swimming around sharks. Does that make sense? It's the feelings
Important thoughts that you share:) I do believe we must peel away unnecessary thoughts which prevent us from experiencing life more directly (deconditioning our original pure nature). Thought is not always malignant and can indeed serve functional purposes. Better to access, enable/trust our cosmic essence in sorting out these matters.
J'adore.....and then I find myself lost in thought....and need to remind myself again & again....There's nothing to think about, no problem to solve....I don't have to react to those thoughts......they're just thoughts....they're there.....an essence which is nothing.
This is where I get stuck.( will have to reexamine) It's not the thoughts, concepts, narrative. It's the actual physical environment, most people here, are in survival mode and struggling financially, the threats and dangers are daily and real and some have children to raise in the mist of this.??
Thank you Angelo. The “me” I have identified with for a long time now is/was very black and white, tell me the rules so I can follow them, what is the procedure, how do I do this, what is there to know. And I liked to follow the rules and figure things out and “do things the right way” and have spent much time and energy judging myself and others based on whatever standards I understood to be true. It went against everything I thought I knew to question my narrative and to see thoughts as you have described in this video. I heard your previous pointings but also thought that “I” was being irresponsible by not allowing certain narratives to be completely true. These last few weeks or months have seen many beliefs I held true start to unravel (and this is after feeling like I was losing my mind in late 2021) so I’m happy that I can feel resistance falling. Anyway thank you 🙏 ❤ for your continued dedication to producing such beautiful pointings for all of us who are seeking. Xx
In later stages of realization even that thought subsides "I have to try to get out of the pain." Not bc pain doesn't hurt, but bc its seen so clearly that that thought represents nothing and actually adds suffering to the inevitability of pain.
@String Vest yes I think it was the Buddha that said pain is inevitable put suffering is optional. I didn’t know the guy personally but my interpretation is that if you brake your arm you might be in some pain, which at the time of Buddha might be a bit of a problem because I don’t think they had any aspirin. So for him it was true and the suffering would come from the story and the emotions you connect with breaking the arm. If you are that way inclined.
In one of your previous video, we are guided to enquire about suffering, else we may be suppressing ourselves . Its contradictory with this video content. Oh almighty me, awake me beyond this contracted me :-)
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thank you. Feel close to IT sometimes and feel sway from, and realise this feeling is only created by thoughts and concepts. Thanks again for your words.
So with this practice - we are making everyday like decisions and doings from non - thinking but inner knowing? Job, investment, holidays everyday stuff
Well, here a thought; when one is Aware, (Self Conscious) there's no need for practice anything. of course, we need knowledge to operate and function in the world (society/reality) other than that, there's no need to keep accumulating data for psychological means aka The Self...
@SimplyAlwaysAwake I am a psychotherapist, a client presented to me with a thought recently. I am curious how "it's just a thought" would work for him.....here is his thought: "....they are making people redundant in work, if they lay me off I won't be able to support my family and as I am too old to get another job that pays this well things will almost definitely get worse..." - these are facts, how can he merely dismiss or absorb his thought in the face of the impact it will have on his children and wife? Genuine question.
I'm still having trouble squaring the fact that everything is all made out of one thing which is consciousness, with the experience of consciousness having different qualities/forms. How can oneness become different? Must there be something making things different? How is the color red made out of the same thing as the color blue?
Branden, whatever appears in your consciousness is made up of the same fabric, whatever that is. There is zero distance, your hands and the moon equally appear. BTW, you are the Experience.
Hi Angelo, great video. Are there different levels of thoughts ? Constructive vs idol, for instance. Picture the following scenario: you’re dealing with an ASA 3 or 4 with a complex airway in the O.R. The thoughts that come into your head at the moment as you manage such a patient. Are those thoughts of a different quality as they guide you through the performance of your duties ? Or are they just thoughts ? To me, there’s some confusion here regarding these pragmatic thoughts that guide you through your career duties. Thanks!
For me, context is important in this respect. Thought as a pragmatic tool for a job or profession is merely a learned pattern. If you recognize it as mere thought, that is what is necessary. If you are lost in the requisite thoughts, (not mindful) that is another matter. I can't speak for Angelo, but I wanted to share my take. Aversion to thinking is also thought. And what he is talking about here is pointing to recognition/realization/awakening which is not exclusive.
Often go through situations like that with no thoughts. Just sort of know what to do :). Also it’s like that for Everyone, then in addition there is a blanket of thoughts about what’s happening and a sense of the “me” that’s taking credit for it all.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake yes but that makes learning difficult, thoughts help digest them thick books. Also I feel like my 19 yo brain cant comprehend this Awakening stuff. So far it has helped me disidentify from thoughts and feelings but somewhere I feel stuck
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake hmm do you mean it's possible to do activities that involve creative symbolic manipulation (e.g. programming, mathematics) without having thoughts? I can't imagine what that's like
Leah, ask yourself whom the voice is talking to. Whatever is listening already knew what was going to be said, prior to it being said. LOL. Of course, it also knows the response before you do. Have you located the voice or listener?
Watch your mind always, two thoughts between gap ,emptiness focus on the emptiness, thoughts will reduce and stopped, expand the gap, your are getting peace, do it is the meditation.
@@katskateboarding5700 yes! and once you see that even the one that seems to be filtering, deciding whith thouts are good ones and which are not so interesting ITSELF is a thought, then you have a far better chance of that scaffolding collapsing :)))
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake by the way, are the teachings of David Hawkins legit ? they hit hard, but sometimes the mind says things like "its too good to be true" haha
This itself is a narrative, what makes it true? Jesus Christ saved me from this, he is the way the truth and the life. You have a soul, you were created from nothingness and you are nothing without Him, thats why this non-duality deception exists, you are staring into your own nothingness. Deception is real. Does the truth matter?
The truth matters of course. Though all of what you said is a bunch of concepts that you’ve been taught from others . The point of nonduality is to see for yourself, truth beyond concepts. Only then will you really know what Jesus was talking about. Until then it’s just third hand knowledge carried down for two thousand years.
It always feels like there's an elephant in the room with these teachings... What do you do when the landlord is banging on the door for the rent and you can't pay the rent because you lost your job?
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Angelo been watching you from mid 2022, got your book and watched your interviews, I don't always comment but just want to say on behalf of othjers too, it's hugely appreciated what you're doing here. Thankyou
You’re welcome ☺️
“The mellow maturity of consciousness” - love that🙏🫖💕
Ramana Maharshi comes to mind, in his inquiry analogy, about a thought being used like a wooden stick stirring a fire. Thoughts and concepts of spirituality are used as a tool before they are ultimately destroyed. This message tells us that it's OK to toss the stick in the fire.
Wittgenstein's metaphor of climbing a ladder and then discarding it also comes to mind :)
Like a 21st century Hsin Hsin Ming in UA-cam format. ❤🎉
Thank you, very generous!
I don't think you know how good you are, Angelo. I'm so glad this is recorded. Your pointing is so... obvious/relatable, like a friend is saying something soothing as well as revolutionary!!
I know you don't want it or care about it, but you should/and will be, I believe, talked of with Eckhart and the likes at the least.
Thank you, thank you my friend!
Just awesome 👌.
Right outa the park again and another step closer to realizing.... W.T.F. IS going on.. lol
God bless
A mental cue to allow thoughts to pass is no longer required. BTW, re-reading your book. It’s precisely the same book I would write; if I was more intelligent, articulate, literate, organized, and knowledgeable. Oh, maybe I would have added some cartoons. 😊 Looking forward to your post-awakening book, Angelo.
lol you always crack me up
Life improves when thoughts decrease......😊
Yes yes yes
The mental cue to allow thoughts to pass is also a thought.
🎶Speaking words of wisdom...Let It Be...🎶 😄
I've tasted this when I'm sitting and meditating in deep relaxation... it's a wonderful feeling... Hakuna matata! That's what came to my mind after listening to this! ...
Ohh the jabali! An emoji suggestion! 😉❤️
Hakuna Matata!!!
I watch almost all your videos and this one specifically is a VERY potent pointer. It's amazing how much you are able to talk about something so ineffable. Much love
Thanks for your comment
This channel is like a dmt trip
🤯 Youre blowing my mind lately...🙏
I just started laughing out of pure JOY watching this video! 💛 😍 This is all one actually needs to hear. Oh, another thought. 😜 Thank you Angelo!!
Love that!
You do not have to think about anything .... it is a thinking itself.
You do not have to do anything with thoughts ......it is itself is a thought and doing. There is someone who says these words.
You do not have to react with thoughts.... .it is a suppression of one who reacts.
I am no thought ... is thought itself
I am nobody ... it is a concept in subtle way.
Hi Angelo, can you elaborate more on Work and financial insecurity, as this comes lately with full force and fear of not being able to maintain family and basic needs. I mean all is good on the nonduality front if I have enough to get by. Recently my body refuses to do the work on the workplace (I am a programmer) and its sooooo mundane, so pointless, the body just refuses, it says NO and I just take sick leave or emergency leave days. The brain shuts down and goes to watching youtube videos or just laying in bed staring at the walls or semi conscious nap. What should I do, should I quit my job, I will probably get fired sooner or later anyway. But getting the same income (and I need it for a number of reasons) how to reorient, a change is much needed and fear also comes for the next 8 hours tomorrow doing pointless coding. I think this is very important topic to be covered. Financial insecurity and intermittent shutdowns on the workplace, well at least it seems important for the apparent me but I think a lot of people suffer being slaves to the system we are put in. Work, consume, sleep, repeat. Probably I should just count on life taking care of the body and responsibilities but not sure this will happen at all, more likely it will just get worse. Thank you.
Are you sure you are actually present when working?
@@wthomas5697 I totally agree 👍. Maybe I posted this just to hear this. Thanks 🙏
Who knows you better than you? 😊
No matter what happens or doesn’t, the non dual front is alive and kicking :)
Good luck to you ❤
During your next day at work you could set a timer for every 15mins for you to stop and bring your attention out of your work and into your body. Feel your feet on the floor, follow your breath, relax. And you can make up new challenges for yourself each day. Can you make someone laugh? Can you notice 3 kind things that other people did today? Can you have lunch with someone new today? Little things that made a huge difference for me. All the best!
Your boredom or sense of lack could be your teacher?
Just abide as Silence. 🙏
Observed them , for multiple weeks, they are gone sometimes for a longer time. It feels deliberating
It's not the thoughts, it's that thoughts evoke a variety of emotional labels and feelings that swarm around them. It's like pilot fish swimming around sharks. Does that make sense? It's the feelings
Important thoughts that you share:) I do believe we must peel away unnecessary thoughts which prevent us from experiencing life more directly (deconditioning our original pure nature). Thought is not always malignant and can indeed serve functional purposes. Better to access, enable/trust our cosmic essence in sorting out these matters.
J'adore.....and then I find myself lost in thought....and need to remind myself again & again....There's nothing to think about, no problem to solve....I don't have to react to those thoughts......they're just thoughts....they're there.....an essence which is nothing.
This is where I get stuck.( will have to reexamine)
It's not the thoughts, concepts, narrative.
It's the actual physical environment, most people here, are in survival mode and struggling financially, the threats and dangers are daily and real and some have children to raise in the mist of this.??
Gratitude.
Thank you.
Welcome!
What a relief!
This video is just the best! Cant stop watching it and just smile or laugh. The "dont get stuck in concepts" hitted hard :)
Thank you Angelo. The “me” I have identified with for a long time now is/was very black and white, tell me the rules so I can follow them, what is the procedure, how do I do this, what is there to know.
And I liked to follow the rules and figure things out and “do things the right way” and have spent much time and energy judging myself and others based on whatever standards I understood to be true.
It went against everything I thought I knew to question my narrative and to see thoughts as you have described in this video. I heard your previous pointings but also thought that “I” was being irresponsible by not allowing certain narratives to be completely true.
These last few weeks or months have seen many beliefs I held true start to unravel (and this is after feeling like I was losing my mind in late 2021) so I’m happy that I can feel resistance falling.
Anyway thank you 🙏 ❤ for your continued dedication to producing such beautiful pointings for all of us who are seeking. Xx
What about when you’re in pain? It’s sooo hard not to think when you desperately want to get out of pain.
In later stages of realization even that thought subsides "I have to try to get out of the pain." Not bc pain doesn't hurt, but bc its seen so clearly that that thought represents nothing and actually adds suffering to the inevitability of pain.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Yup. You cease to shove in the second arrow ;)
@@ernestweber5207 indeed
Pain is inevitably. Suffering is optional, so they say
@String Vest yes I think it was the Buddha that said pain is inevitable put suffering is optional. I didn’t know the guy personally but my interpretation is that if you brake your arm you might be in some pain, which at the time of Buddha might be a bit of a problem because I don’t think they had any aspirin. So for him it was true and the suffering would come from the story and the emotions you connect with breaking the arm. If you are that way inclined.
Thank you for this
Awesome. Thank you Angelo🙏😊
So helpful
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Angelo. I went on a weird UA-cam binge there and this one ended it off lol. Good one to end on 🙂
love it !!!
Row row row your boat...... 🛶🕳
merrily merrily merrily merrily
love it 🙏❤️
Thank you!!!
Exactly what I needed to hear
In one of your previous video, we are guided to enquire about suffering, else we may be suppressing ourselves . Its contradictory with this video content.
Oh almighty me, awake me beyond this contracted me :-)
if you inquire into the nature of suffering you will find it is entirely caused by believing thoughts and perceptual filters. Same same
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thank you.
Feel close to IT sometimes and feel sway from, and realise this feeling is only created by thoughts and concepts. Thanks again for your words.
❤
So with this practice - we are making everyday like decisions and doings from non - thinking but inner knowing? Job, investment, holidays everyday stuff
Nooooo thoooouuuuughtssssss
Hyun, I found decisions will still be made, as will life’s daily interactions. But without the drama, doubt, and stress.
Well, here a thought; when one is Aware, (Self Conscious) there's no need for practice anything. of course, we need knowledge to operate and function in the world (society/reality) other than that, there's no need to keep accumulating data for psychological means aka The Self...
@@kanekjanaab7957 thank you, I get that.
Yep, it always comes from there anyways :)))
very freeing
@SimplyAlwaysAwake I am a psychotherapist, a client presented to me with a thought recently. I am curious how "it's just a thought" would work for him.....here is his thought: "....they are making people redundant in work, if they lay me off I won't be able to support my family and as I am too old to get another job that pays this well things will almost definitely get worse..." - these are facts, how can he merely dismiss or absorb his thought in the face of the impact it will have on his children and wife? Genuine question.
You are right but it's difficult to be convinced. Why?
bc thoughts endlessly rationalize their own existence. ... the original AI
this very helpful thanks.
Glad it was helpful!
I'm still having trouble squaring the fact that everything is all made out of one thing which is consciousness, with the experience of consciousness having different qualities/forms. How can oneness become different? Must there be something making things different? How is the color red made out of the same thing as the color blue?
The thoughts about all of this right now, that is consciousness. The experience of red is just what it is :)
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Man, I am confused. But at least I recognize that that's a thought! Thank you for your response.
Branden, whatever appears in your consciousness is made up of the same fabric, whatever that is. There is zero distance, your hands and the moon equally appear. BTW, you are the Experience.
Yes sir! 🙏
There is no thinker.
Indeed!!
@@mat.se57 they can be even with no thinker. They tend to calm tremendously after the subtle self structure falls away tho
@@mat.se57 …but to no one. All is an appearance.
Oh a bunch of thoughts here, but they don’t seem privately owned and operated anymore 😊
@@sinkec No owner, no non-owner, either. So you see, there is no one to benefit from ownership and no one to benefit from non-ownership.
Hi Angelo, great video. Are there different levels of thoughts ? Constructive vs idol, for instance.
Picture the following scenario: you’re dealing with an ASA 3 or 4 with a complex airway in the O.R. The thoughts that come into your head at the moment as you manage such a patient. Are those thoughts of a different quality as they guide you through the performance of your duties ? Or are they just thoughts ?
To me, there’s some confusion here regarding these pragmatic thoughts that guide you through your career duties. Thanks!
For me, context is important in this respect. Thought as a pragmatic tool for a job or profession is merely a learned pattern. If you recognize it as mere thought, that is what is necessary. If you are lost in the requisite thoughts, (not mindful) that is another matter. I can't speak for Angelo, but I wanted to share my take. Aversion to thinking is also thought. And what he is talking about here is pointing to recognition/realization/awakening which is not exclusive.
Often go through situations like that with no thoughts. Just sort of know what to do :). Also it’s like that for Everyone, then in addition there is a blanket of thoughts about what’s happening and a sense of the “me” that’s taking credit for it all.
@@ernestweber5207 -thank you!
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake -Angelo, thank you!
Can you talk about emotional eating and working out for physique rather than health?
I need thoughts to study and learn
What if you didn’t? Wouldn’t that be peaceful?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake yes but that makes learning difficult, thoughts help digest them thick books. Also I feel like my 19 yo brain cant comprehend this Awakening stuff. So far it has helped me disidentify from thoughts and feelings but somewhere I feel stuck
@@Blessupph777 keep at it :). Things will clarify
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake hmm do you mean it's possible to do activities that involve creative symbolic manipulation (e.g. programming, mathematics) without having thoughts? I can't imagine what that's like
How does an inner monologue differ from thoughts?
An inner monologue IS thought
Leah, ask yourself whom the voice is talking to. Whatever is listening already knew what was going to be said, prior to it being said. LOL. Of course, it also knows the response before you do. Have you located the voice or listener?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I figured as much 😂. TY 🙏🏻
@@cps_Zen_Run Is that which is listening the same thing as the “you” referred to in “it also knows the response before YOU do”?
🙏🙏🙏
wow
How do you shut off random thoughts you can't control
BT, one cannot. But we can rewire our brains not to identify or obsess over them.
By not trying to shut off thoughts. Consciousness playlist has many approaches
I've heard this but refused to accept for a couple of decades. Probably tried everything a mind can try before I gave that fool's errand up :)
SHUT! IT! DOWN! Whoooo! Hooooooo!
!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can thoughts be stopped?
Watch your mind always, two thoughts between gap ,emptiness focus on the emptiness, thoughts will reduce and stopped, expand the gap, your are getting peace, do it is the meditation.
🙏🙌
,,,,I'm in
Don't get stuck in concept!
You look tired brother. Are you well?
Yes, just didn't sleep much overnight :)
You mean its okay to give up ALL thinking ? if thats true this will be some next level experience, 3:38 thats exactly what I do lool
Of course it is. But don’t try to push away thoughts, that’s not helpful :)
"negative thought comes" - oh yeah that is bs aint listening to this, "positive thought comes" - oh yeah that makes sense - JUST MORE THOUGHTS LOL
@@katskateboarding5700 yes! and once you see that even the one that seems to be filtering, deciding whith thouts are good ones and which are not so interesting ITSELF is a thought, then you have a far better chance of that scaffolding collapsing :)))
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake by the way, are the teachings of David Hawkins legit ? they hit hard, but sometimes the mind says things like "its too good to be true" haha
@@katskateboarding5700 sorry, I’m unfamiliar with them
are you saying that the True Self is just a concept? the True Self isnt real? i'm really not understanding your point of view..
What does True Self mean to you?
True Self is another expression for the real Infinite Limitless Eternal I..the non-dual Self..your turn!
@@chitraisenlightened I’ll just say (suggest) there is another step beyond that 😃
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake hahahaha
♥️🧔♂️👖
,,,,the peasants always win
,,,,,,Uuff,,!!__Brahma ,,îs stabilizing,,__
This itself is a narrative, what makes it true? Jesus Christ saved me from this, he is the way the truth and the life. You have a soul, you were created from nothingness and you are nothing without Him, thats why this non-duality deception exists, you are staring into your own nothingness. Deception is real. Does the truth matter?
The truth matters of course. Though all of what you said is a bunch of concepts that you’ve been taught from others . The point of nonduality is to see for yourself, truth beyond concepts. Only then will you really know what Jesus was talking about. Until then it’s just third hand knowledge carried down for two thousand years.
It always feels like there's an elephant in the room with these teachings...
What do you do when the landlord is banging on the door for the rent and you can't pay the rent because you lost your job?
🙏🙏🙏