Where does intention meet surrender? I'm forever grateful to you for pointing me toward The Erik Ireland Method for completely accepting and getting rid of Erik Ireland. :)
This feels like an intellectualized reference to a description you may have heard of non-doership. But it is a misinterpretation. What he is referring to is a description in my book about finding where intention meets surrender in your experience.
There’s a quote from The Way of the Peaceful Warrior that always stuck with me. It was something like, “I sat down to meditate, but realized I was meditating all the time now” so beautiful
I felt really stupid clicking on this. I feel well aware that I absolutely don't need to add another technique to my knowledge; in fact I feel very much torn as it is. Torn between the act of self inquery and the not-so-much-act of just sitting. Now I can tell you, hearing you can put them together like that, that's really nice. That felt good and reassuring.
This is great. The mode of meditation practiced here for a long while now, is "Choice-less Awareness". I think coined by Krishnamurti? It is Natural Meditation. I'm on retreat for 10 ten days right now. The only online watching is yours, Angelo, or Lisa Cairns. Other than the group I'm in the retreat with. For the next three days I'm going to practice the Erik Ireland Method in the afternoons, in "free-time meditation". On Saturday and Sunday afternoons, there's sitting in with Ryan Burton's online retreat. Incredibly blessed to have these resources. Thank you. Thank you🙏❤
Damn thank you for linking Eriks Video… I abandoned self inquiry because I wasn’t getting an answer, but then when watching Eriks Video he said something like „there is only the question“ I didn’t even consider that, lol I keep and keep intellectualizing, swimming through an endless sea of concept but, even though I don’t fully feel into what awakening is, I got a sense of what you meant when you said that nothing of this is conceptual after watching Eriks Video Much love ❤
Experiment: While in a conversation you suddenly forgot what you were about to say, which most of the time we experience as something quiet embarrassing, just stop trying to remember what you were about to say, and stay in that void of ‘not knowing’ and you will see in a glimpse who you really are. Sometimes the mind just spontaneously ‘blacks out’ but we desperately try to keep it back on track. So funny. Some of us try years of meditation to get into that state, but when it presents itself for free, we just ignore it. Ramana used to say that the moment you realize (who you really are), you’ll start laughing, because it is so simple. So,close all the time, and yet so unattainable…you just have to believe that it is possible, even for you and make a firm decision. Don’t let the so called experts keep you from what’s naturally yours. Happy no year!
Wow, Awesome video Angelo, you just continue to give and give and give. How can we not be so grateful and humbled to have your loving guidance. Who are you Really? I guess we all know, you've taught us well ❤💜
Thank you for your description of natural meditation, it’s opened a door on my understanding of the practice of vipasssana. Vipassana is presented as a task and work, so implicitly there must be a goal, but it’s counter statement is that all one must do is observe sensation without judgement, simply observe. When doing nothing is a “task”, you’ve helped me see that we are set up to fail at doing nothing 😊
ohhhh...to dissolve into the everything/nothingness...no words...Amen.... Aho...OM... Nothing but Love here!! Feel moved to express the gratitude!! ❤❤❤
first time hearing you say about this collapse into sleep. Its very relatable, with mu practice or natural meditation i find my self in that territory where its often very quiet but there is some resistance because to the arising sleepiness or sense of sloth as its generally seen as something undesirable in meditation.
Angelo, I feel a bit silly saying this but it seemed important. I've watched 10's of hours of your videos and just got to the end of your book where you talk about introspection. I thought I knew what it was, that i was asking a question and engaging with the mind to find the answer. I know you have playlists for this, but you might want to do a summary or quick recap of introspection in some of your vids. I'm saying this because I spent alot of time with you before learning about this. Love what you do! I hope I get further down the path the way you are soon. Thank you!
I keep ending up at some precipice and it's extremely scary. I'm not sure if it's getting easier, it's kind of getting "more real" and more scary. I wonder how much this story is coloring my experience. It feels abundantly real though and big and profound and weird and I hardly understand it, it vanishes quickly, and it very much feels like stepping off into nothing, and I would presume there is some sort of felt or apparent/relative ground "beyond it" or "in it" (aka "it's fine, I won't actually die just from letting this feeling ramp up exponentially like it wants to); one just has to step off fully, with a sort of faith, yes, like letting go into all of this. Letting go COMPLETELY because it's a like infinitely big feeling. This seems to come from "inquiry"; I don't really sit and ask "who am I", that seems to do nothing for me; meaningful/meta-level shifts in experience seem to happen from like automatically/intuitively questioning/looking for sources/causes of perceptions/thoughts/intentions. (Is this inquiry? Either way, this does stuff to me, happens naturally in some moments according to my will at that time) Repeatedly I feel/think "I'm not ready" and I back off. Will I ever be ready? What am I waiting for? Not sure, it doesn't matter, it will/does happen as it happens; I'll be ready when I'm ready etc., presumably each time it gets easier whether I know it or not. What even is it? Does it matter?
I second this. I feel a profound fear sometimes and I think I’ve been on this precipice many times in my life, perhaps in other lives as well, who knows. It’s an infinitely big anxious feeling like I’m suddenly in hell or something, and I’m afraid to face that and let the emotions that come with it actually develop and go further into it, if that makes sense. I feel like I’ve awakened many times but it somehow hasn’t been a fairytale or had any lasting happiness or fulfillment in it, it has simply been a terrifying experience and a horrifying state to be in. I’ve had three psychotic episodes in my life, so that may have something to do with it. Something in me tells me that the universe is cruel, that the forces behind life and existence and consciousness are somehow evil, and that life literally is hell, and that there is no escape from it. I pray that I am wrong about that.
@@MartinEiken What you're saying makes sense to me. In [my] theory, this is all normal and expected and natural/lawful, and "the only way out is through", but this doesn't mean forcing, it seems our bodyminds know what to do and they back us off with an insurmountable fear, appropriately. Does this profound experience change? It feels to me to get a bit deeper and further, not each time - the progress doesn't clearly happen in one direction - but overall. It's gotten scarier for me, as if I feel more of a fear that's already there. What even is hell or suffering or evil? I don't necessarily know. Why do we have problems with this? (Is hell okay?) It's curious. But it's there and it's not okay until it is (if it ever is). I have no idea, I'm right there with you but I definitely don't actually know you, lol. It does feel scary. I don't know what to do and I'm not really worried about it; in my theory the body and/or sensory experience generally is a sort of "safe haven" and truth-giver even if it doesn't feel that way. And we continually open to the body over time and thus build our capacity to feel up to the point where we can jump off this precipice.
and, you might even need to give yourself permission to say yes. I have had to do this along with many other permissions; permission to explore, to be curious, permission to be.... **** so much resistance to growing, permission to feel that resistance, amazing... thank you Angelo
If my entire identity is based on thoughts and only thoughts, how can the mechanism that produces the thoughts turn off or dissolve in order for “me” to awaken? Wouldn’t “I” be still thinking that I’m awakened? Would the sense of me disappear and then exactly what remains?
Not speaking from experience, but it seems to me that awakening is, at least in part? the realization that there is no separate “me” or self. Angelo always says it’s about a shift in identity, who or what we take ourselves to be. So there really isn’t a “you” that awakens. I’m sure what remains is impossible to put into words :) But it is something.
I call it the stateless state. You know when you reach it because it's so different to everything you would normally call a state. It's in fact the exact absence of state.
Good News! i discovered that the brain/body is capable of setting itself Totally Free of fear, anxiety, sorrow, despair, loneliness, shame, guilt, confusion, contradictions, addictions, and all other mental/emotional disturbances, in each and every moment of daily life, once and for all, now forever.
This gives birth to True Love, Peace, Happiness, Creativity, & Clarity, for the very first time. Not the love, peace, happiness, that the I, the me, the self, the thinker, the mind, imagines it to be, which is a limitation, imitation, and distortion. For the very first time, Soul is happening, Spirit is happening, Heart is happening. It is not temporary. It is happening in each & every moment of daily life, 24/7. It does not take time. It has nothing whatsoever to do with time, effort, or choice. It occurs faster than the speed of light. The children are ready to be set Totally Free at the earliest age so they don't waste their whole life with any mental/emotional disturbances.
@@jacobsolace177 You aren’t understanding The Void. I am awake and have two bad eyes, I just have no energy source at the moment. I had a See the Light NDE 7 years ago, so I’m loaded with information few have, but Just too tired to do anything about it.
Hi Angelo, your description of shikentaza - and I've heard it before - sounds to me identical to everyday waking consciousness: don't direct attention, don't try to do anything, let everything come and go. This to me is exactly what daydreaming is. But I imagine you're pointing to something different. Could you help me understand the essential difference? Thanks 6:51
I find myself trying not to try in natural meditation. Realising that too is apart of it. Whatever arises, is seen, not seen is fine. Mind is tricky trying to direct attention, find something etc.
Hi Angelo. Do you have any examples of people who have awakened that are physically disabled in some way or are/were going through a illness, disease or physical pain, weakness, or discomfort in the body?
Apologies if this a dumb question, but what's the difference between natural meditation and living one's life asleep to true nature, just like most of us are most of the time. Like, what moment of the day couldn't be considered natural meditation?
@@ForceOwner7 No because they have nothing to tell you. They use generic, intentionally non-specific terms because they're selling snake oil. If they're so awakened, why do they require a youtube channel? Seriously, pull your head out of the sand and stop falling for this bs.
@MaYHeM-x8k "They use generic, intentionally non-specific terms because they're selling snake oil. If they're so awakened, why do they require a youtube channel? Seriously, pull your head out of the sand and stop falling for this bs." So much projection here. do you find yourself having difficulty with authenticity in life an with personal relationships?
Where does intention meet surrender? I'm forever grateful to you for pointing me toward The Erik Ireland Method for completely accepting and getting rid of Erik Ireland. :)
🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake u cannot intend yourself to surrender, trying is useless.
This feels like an intellectualized reference to a description you may have heard of non-doership. But it is a misinterpretation. What he is referring to is a description in my book about finding where intention meets surrender in your experience.
There’s a quote from The Way of the Peaceful Warrior that always stuck with me. It was something like, “I sat down to meditate, but realized I was meditating all the time now” so beautiful
To lose yourself is to find yourself.
To go within is to go without.
To be/know nothing is to be/know everything.
Happy new year, folks. 🥳
@@EnlightenedSchmuck
Happy Nee Year to you too no-thing ♥️
This is the first vid of yours that I have come across. I’m very happy for it 🙂
Welcome to the Rabbit Hole! 👁
I felt really stupid clicking on this.
I feel well aware that I absolutely don't need to add another technique to my knowledge; in fact I feel very much torn as it is.
Torn between the act of self inquery and the not-so-much-act of just sitting.
Now I can tell you, hearing you can put them together like that, that's really nice. That felt good and reassuring.
This is great. The mode of meditation practiced here for a long while now, is "Choice-less Awareness". I think coined by Krishnamurti? It is Natural Meditation. I'm on retreat for 10 ten days right now. The only online watching is yours, Angelo, or Lisa Cairns. Other than the group I'm in the retreat with. For the next three days I'm going to practice the Erik Ireland Method in the afternoons, in "free-time meditation". On Saturday and Sunday afternoons, there's sitting in with Ryan Burton's online retreat. Incredibly blessed to have these resources. Thank you. Thank you🙏❤
Damn thank you for linking Eriks Video… I abandoned self inquiry because I wasn’t getting an answer, but then when watching Eriks Video he said something like „there is only the question“
I didn’t even consider that, lol
I keep and keep intellectualizing, swimming through an endless sea of concept but, even though I don’t fully feel into what awakening is, I got a sense of what you meant when you said that nothing of this is conceptual after watching Eriks Video
Much love ❤
Experiment: While in a conversation you suddenly forgot what you were about to say, which most of the time we experience as something quiet embarrassing, just stop trying to remember what you were about to say, and stay in that void of ‘not knowing’ and you will see in a glimpse who you really are. Sometimes the mind just spontaneously ‘blacks out’ but we desperately try to keep it back on track. So funny. Some of us try years of meditation to get into that state, but when it presents itself for free, we just ignore it. Ramana used to say that the moment you realize (who you really are), you’ll start laughing, because it is so simple. So,close all the time, and yet so unattainable…you just have to believe that it is possible, even for you and make a firm decision. Don’t let the so called experts keep you from what’s naturally yours. Happy no year!
So living life is just natural meditation!
That's the reason this 'no technique' it's so straightforward, it points to reality completely disenchanted from constructs and selves and stuff
Hey man thanks for recommending this channel I have been loving his videos
Welcome!
Wow, Awesome video Angelo, you just continue to give and give and give.
How can we not be so grateful and humbled to have your loving guidance.
Who are you Really?
I guess we all know, you've taught us well ❤💜
not me watching this in the middle of my improvised 10-day home retreat 🤣🤣🤣🙏
Because You don't exist, right! 😅
I’m always impressed when people can do a full on retreat at home 💪🏻
Not me? Or you are?
I love this video. I have periodically recalled that scene from Indian Jones and now I see why. Blessings.
I love the editing ♥ And wow, this video was so powerful! Thanks Angelo I really needed this one today ❤
Thank you for your description of natural meditation, it’s opened a door on my understanding of the practice of vipasssana. Vipassana is presented as a task and work, so implicitly there must be a goal, but it’s counter statement is that all one must do is observe sensation without judgement, simply observe. When doing nothing is a “task”, you’ve helped me see that we are set up to fail at doing nothing 😊
Thank you so much, Angelo. Happy New Year. 🦋🐙🦙🌅✨
Gorgeousness. Thank you.
ohhhh...to dissolve into the everything/nothingness...no words...Amen.... Aho...OM... Nothing but Love here!! Feel moved to express the gratitude!! ❤❤❤
first time hearing you say about this collapse into sleep. Its very relatable, with mu practice or natural meditation i find my self in that territory where its often very quiet but there is some resistance because to the arising sleepiness or sense of sloth as its generally seen as something undesirable in meditation.
Already complete..perfect..WE ARE..🙏❤
THAT is amazing!
Stunning as always ❤
Thank you! Cheers!
Angelo, I feel a bit silly saying this but it seemed important. I've watched 10's of hours of your videos and just got to the end of your book where you talk about introspection. I thought I knew what it was, that i was asking a question and engaging with the mind to find the answer. I know you have playlists for this, but you might want to do a summary or quick recap of introspection in some of your vids. I'm saying this because I spent alot of time with you before learning about this. Love what you do! I hope I get further down the path the way you are soon. Thank you!
@@williamhutchinson8881 good idea
Thanks!
I keep ending up at some precipice and it's extremely scary. I'm not sure if it's getting easier, it's kind of getting "more real" and more scary. I wonder how much this story is coloring my experience. It feels abundantly real though and big and profound and weird and I hardly understand it, it vanishes quickly, and it very much feels like stepping off into nothing, and I would presume there is some sort of felt or apparent/relative ground "beyond it" or "in it" (aka "it's fine, I won't actually die just from letting this feeling ramp up exponentially like it wants to); one just has to step off fully, with a sort of faith, yes, like letting go into all of this. Letting go COMPLETELY because it's a like infinitely big feeling.
This seems to come from "inquiry"; I don't really sit and ask "who am I", that seems to do nothing for me; meaningful/meta-level shifts in experience seem to happen from like automatically/intuitively questioning/looking for sources/causes of perceptions/thoughts/intentions.
(Is this inquiry? Either way, this does stuff to me, happens naturally in some moments according to my will at that time)
Repeatedly I feel/think "I'm not ready" and I back off. Will I ever be ready? What am I waiting for? Not sure, it doesn't matter, it will/does happen as it happens; I'll be ready when I'm ready etc., presumably each time it gets easier whether I know it or not. What even is it? Does it matter?
I second this. I feel a profound fear sometimes and I think I’ve been on this precipice many times in my life, perhaps in other lives as well, who knows. It’s an infinitely big anxious feeling like I’m suddenly in hell or something, and I’m afraid to face that and let the emotions that come with it actually develop and go further into it, if that makes sense. I feel like I’ve awakened many times but it somehow hasn’t been a fairytale or had any lasting happiness or fulfillment in it, it has simply been a terrifying experience and a horrifying state to be in. I’ve had three psychotic episodes in my life, so that may have something to do with it. Something in me tells me that the universe is cruel, that the forces behind life and existence and consciousness are somehow evil, and that life literally is hell, and that there is no escape from it. I pray that I am wrong about that.
@@MartinEiken What you're saying makes sense to me. In [my] theory, this is all normal and expected and natural/lawful, and "the only way out is through", but this doesn't mean forcing, it seems our bodyminds know what to do and they back us off with an insurmountable fear, appropriately. Does this profound experience change? It feels to me to get a bit deeper and further, not each time - the progress doesn't clearly happen in one direction - but overall. It's gotten scarier for me, as if I feel more of a fear that's already there.
What even is hell or suffering or evil? I don't necessarily know. Why do we have problems with this? (Is hell okay?) It's curious. But it's there and it's not okay until it is (if it ever is). I have no idea, I'm right there with you but I definitely don't actually know you, lol. It does feel scary. I don't know what to do and I'm not really worried about it; in my theory the body and/or sensory experience generally is a sort of "safe haven" and truth-giver even if it doesn't feel that way. And we continually open to the body over time and thus build our capacity to feel up to the point where we can jump off this precipice.
and, you might even need to give yourself permission to say yes.
I have had to do this along with many other permissions; permission to explore, to be curious, permission to be....
**** so much resistance to growing, permission to feel that resistance, amazing...
thank you Angelo
❤ the faith definition
Angelo, your hoodie looking like a cowl reminds me of a Dominican Friar’s habit😊 love this video❤
If my entire identity is based on thoughts and only thoughts, how can the mechanism that produces the thoughts turn off or dissolve in order for “me” to awaken? Wouldn’t “I” be still thinking that I’m awakened? Would the sense of me disappear and then exactly what remains?
Not speaking from experience, but it seems to me that awakening is, at least in part? the realization that there is no separate “me” or self. Angelo always says it’s about a shift in identity, who or what we take ourselves to be. So there really isn’t a “you” that awakens. I’m sure what remains is impossible to put into words :) But it is something.
I call it the stateless state. You know when you reach it because it's so different to everything you would normally call a state. It's in fact the exact absence of state.
Selfing... it's like thin air that tries to wrap itself in saran, and only then I can tag myself as "Air, Packed on: August 1988".
Interestingly they call it cling film in the UK ..... There's a good analogy!
Good News! i discovered that the brain/body is capable of setting itself Totally Free of fear, anxiety, sorrow, despair, loneliness, shame, guilt, confusion, contradictions, addictions, and all other mental/emotional disturbances, in each and every moment of daily life, once and for all, now forever.
This gives birth to True Love, Peace, Happiness, Creativity, & Clarity, for the very first time. Not the love, peace, happiness, that the I, the me, the self, the thinker, the mind, imagines it to be, which is a limitation, imitation, and distortion.
For the very first time, Soul is happening, Spirit is happening, Heart is happening.
It is not temporary. It is happening in each & every moment of daily life, 24/7.
It does not take time. It has nothing whatsoever to do with time, effort, or choice. It occurs faster than the speed of light.
The children are ready to be set Totally Free at the earliest age so they don't waste their whole life with any mental/emotional disturbances.
I’m on my way 🎉 ❤. In the no energy Void at the moment, but I’m getting there 😊
@@thesjkexperience You are already there. Just snap out of it. Wake Up. Open your eye.
@@jacobsolace177 You aren’t understanding The Void. I am awake and have two bad eyes, I just have no energy source at the moment. I had a See the Light NDE 7 years ago, so I’m loaded with information few have, but Just too tired to do anything about it.
I only did this without even knowing that it was a practice haha and it worked so yeah, maybe the most natural the best, as everything else.
🙏🙏🙏
Hi Angelo, your description of shikentaza - and I've heard it before - sounds to me identical to everyday waking consciousness: don't direct attention, don't try to do anything, let everything come and go. This to me is exactly what daydreaming is. But I imagine you're pointing to something different. Could you help me understand the essential difference? Thanks 6:51
I answered this in upcoming video
Is it a out of body experience? Self disobjectification is the goal? Theurgy?
I find myself trying not to try in natural meditation. Realising that too is apart of it. Whatever arises, is seen, not seen is fine. Mind is tricky trying to direct attention, find something etc.
Excellent
it’s obvious there is no separation. but i have no clue “what i am”
Hi Angelo. Do you have any examples of people who have awakened that are physically disabled in some way or are/were going through a illness, disease or physical pain, weakness, or discomfort in the body?
David goggins 11 chapter
ua-cam.com/video/KQCNt3gwRSw/v-deo.html
What is the difference between Kensho and Liberation?
Answered in upcoming vid
natural meditation = open monitoring meditation
Apologies if this a dumb question, but what's the difference between natural meditation and living one's life asleep to true nature, just like most of us are most of the time. Like, what moment of the day couldn't be considered natural meditation?
Answered in upcoming video
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thanks! ❤
So....like going to sleep...
Responded in upcoming video
If you're awakened then you would no longer be asleep to tell us about it. You're not the Khristos.
That’s a misunderstanding. Many people who have had awakenings talk about it.
Maybe simply give up the want of achieving it.
certainly your idea of it
@ You having an idea of something is the moment you have blinded yourself from truth.
It's so distracting to have background music, when you are speaking. Had to exit video, sorry
I like the feel and the volume and the choice of the music. Thougt it very well done!
wtf man😆😆
well it was beautiful. happy i watched this.
I thought the music was perfect, including the volume. ❤
98% of human suffering is people's beliefs lol
You guys say a lot of words that mean absolutely nothing. Shysters.
Because he talk about non wordly experience
@@ForceOwner7 No because they have nothing to tell you. They use generic, intentionally non-specific terms because they're selling snake oil. If they're so awakened, why do they require a youtube channel? Seriously, pull your head out of the sand and stop falling for this bs.
@MaYHeM-x8k "They use generic, intentionally non-specific terms because they're selling snake oil. If they're so awakened, why do they require a youtube channel? Seriously, pull your head out of the sand and stop falling for this bs."
So much projection here. do you find yourself having difficulty with authenticity in life an with personal relationships?
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