The Laser of Awakening
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2022
- A dive into the one-pointed approach I often refer to.
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Angelo, was driving the other day, while joking with my fiance I said out loud "I am Sherlock" and you are Watson. In that instant, it was a vortex, literally felt like I was spinning out of control, all in the same moment, I recognized this is supremely natural and familiar, but something also was terrified but also relieved like finally I dont have to do "this" the heavy person, mind dominated idea isn't real. Went and carved pumpkins right after, hands were shakey but calm. Since then, Its subtle sometimes and sometimes glaring, but something is massively different. Now there is calm, quiet and clarity, the silence is so deep and thats where everything starts and ends, all into silence, just like everything now feels like it starts and ends in unfathomable silence.
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Angelo, thanks to you, today i had an insight, that the sense of "i'm" is the same all my life, no matter what age. It's timeless, and ageless! It's exactly the same, as when i was a teenager, or kid even. Only movie/story/content (of thoughts) seem to change, but the "context" "knowing" or "i'm" or "substance" which it's made off - it's still the same!
Indeed! That's great to hear :)
I NEED YOUR BOOK. 😫
@@mpeniakThat’s a lucky shift! Do you have any examples of how that has affected how you feel or react in specific situations?
@@oolala53 That's grace not luck but a wonderful realization, that sense of I am has never changed since childhood
Wow…
Every one of your videos carries a different kind of transmission.
The short clips, the Awakening Story interviews, your conversations with Zubin, etc.
And the way it all comes together is amazing. Just now, as I’m listening to you talking about laser focus, I find that I’m ready.
Two days ago I couldn’t watch or listen to anything you said because I was on overload and couldn’t hear any more. Or “I” was still picking and choosing which ones I liked or preferred.
At least in this moment right now, I don’t have preferences, I’m not trying to stay in any comfort zone. I just want to bring this focus to bear on whatever I’m still clinging to.
It’s amazing. Totally clear and totally incomprehensible.
And even as I write this, I can already feel how slower more reluctant parts of me still have the ammunition to mount a counter attack to what I’m stating so glibly here.
Yet there is even room for that. Focus, allow, surrender to reality, even as we surrender to all the voices and doubts that want no part of and feel threatened by this reality.
It’s so beautiful, and I am so grateful…
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Thank you.
Looking at your words it sounds like more than a normal comment.
Feels like the voice of truth speaking through you, and I’m taking it in that way.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad the various modalities are helpful
I really like these long form, less traditionally meditative talks
Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha!
Much love to you, Angelo and all that is.
Just this.
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There is a deep resonation with what you point to. Thank you, Angelo.
You’re welcome
Again and again in all the ways you say it, it’s so helpful. Thank you!
Wow. Really great to see and hear the non dual teachings and pointings from someone who's so casual and normal... Very refreshing... makes those who watch feel as if they can relate to a great degree. Hard to relate sometimes to lineages, and to robes and Holy titles. Not that there is anything wrong or fake about people who are in certain lineages. Much respect to them.. but for the average Joe, it can be a little weird and almost too far away to relate too. Anyways. Just want to thank you for being genuinely yourself. And for helping us see the truth. Buying your book tonight. Look forward to speaking with you and the rest of the gang on zoom meetings. Thank you again for your time for truth. This body mind is very appreciative.
As my mind has increasingly become more silent I find myself no longer compelled to engage with it . But when I do the unrequested engagement can become quite glaring and revelatory as to how I became what I thought I was.
Thank you.🙏🏻
Please consider retreat in EU or UK.🙏🏻
Wonderful to see and hear, all stripped back and letting it flow, barely noticed the lack of background and Angelo no longer looked like CGI 😁🙏🏻
Brilliant Angelo, thank you ❤
I love you Angelo.
I had an interesting experience yesterday. I felt so sank into my body. It felt like I was going to die. My heart was pounding, yet I continued to breathe. But it was as if I was behind and in front of my body. I can say that I felt out of my body and there was so much space between me and my field of vision.
I also felt a direct, soft, airy flow of energy through me. My senses were wiped clean in that instance so much that I felt like I was beyond my senses. Sounds were vibid and things just looked more alive and interesting in what felt like I was experiencing life for the fiest time in a while. Anyway, I do feel a shift. Im more present and it feels so much easier to breathe and let go of things. It also has become easier for me to be honest with myself. I feel more self aware in the sense of being able to catch myself before I feel fear. As fear arises I can see it and integrate it. Something just feels more flowy within me.
Perfect. My advice is let go of the descriptions and the event and even the recall do it and thoughts about how it is now. Then just let the experience take you deeper into it, wordlessly, thoughtlessly, just all of this! 😊
So helpful 🙏
You're a legend! The consciousness, that seems to be who you "are" has some answers indeed :) Ironically its called RUclips. Thoughts flowing, finding expression through movement
Every video comes at the right time. If i were to have watched this a few months ago it simply wouldn't have resonated, sometimes the RUclips algorithm does its job particularly well
Thanks!
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Thanks a lot.
Most welcome!
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amazing, in a "real" teaching context your videos get a full different "feeling", very deep, loving, humble.
Intention, message, transmission, presence.
Not sure if it is my conditioning (probably) or it has something to it, but before I just viewed interviews or videos with you alone, and it had for me and others I shared, a nihilistic taste.
So, not sure if it is intentional, but here "humanity", kindness, love just gets through. Beautiful!
Beyond conditioning, very resonating.
Just as feedback, coming from Advaita background.
I love how you have to clarify "human body". I fucking get it right now.
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I was having an anxiety attack one night and started concentrating deeply on my breath.
I was able to "burst out" of the inside of what was like a "thought hurricane" and saw this "witnesser" but the witnesser is just a thought too, isn't it?
Gosh the pool ball analogy really landed.
Thanks!!
"Good Grief"-Lucy...how much better can he get at Transmissions? Blessings refilled with trust and nothingness. I really needed to 'remember' esp Today!
From DRY HOT UK.
Great post!
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stay spritzed over there my friend
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I don't 'think' abt IT. Grin
[44:28] Wow! "Not yet please" was his [me sitting] thought which also was kind of on its own, a separate entity, a trace in space, a lightning trail, before it was drawn to this self-sustaining nest of important thoughts (having more "gravity", more deeper traces than other thoughts). Actually me sitting, a desk, thoughts, all have had its own accompanying awareness, making it experiential and existing.
"More breathing room" [41:00] is true in both general and literal way. Just in case someone had struggled with breathing (concentration), trying to look at it from the inside, from the outside, follow it, become one (volitionally) with it, and it was exhausting (sometimes painful maybe). When the area of focus is relaxed, there is breathing in it too, but no recursive disturbance. It's like "all inclusive" offer. :) If there is some tension that is not dissolving, it is and it is OK, without thoughts generating more tension. Sometimes tension is hidden emotion but sometimes it's just pierogi or spaghetti napoli in the stomach. So in my case "the quiet place" also helps in a way that it is bigger than automagic need to control (among other things, breathing - how stupid it is, lol). So, more room to breath - cool stuff. Literally.
Thank you Angleo 🙏
You’re welcome ☺️
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[50:52] There is this side-effect of this existential fear if one is stuck with it. It's like a big bubble pushing smaller bubbles up. So there is a bonus, if someone will not meet conditions to go through it instantaneously. It may bring some hidden stuff into the light. Kind of naturally expressed need for "purification" (dealing with some important things, perspectives, until there is no major resistance). Then you look inside and it's quiet.
so much fun to listen to these. Beautiful portrait in the background and is that a golden Ganesh so cute ^_^
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ANGELO! I NEED HELP PLEASE
I have, and am experiencing everything you have described in this video. I feel so scared, detached from my personality (hovering in and out) and feel like I may be losing my mind. Just been to Costa Rica about 3 months ago and did 8 Ayahuasca ceremonies where I unlocked some very disturbing and violent childhood sexual abuse memories which I am still trying to process, in the midst of a painful separation with my husband of 25 yrs, kids taking his side, quit my job, selling my farm and dealing with some other really painful family issues. I have no support system, friends aren't on the same path so have started to feel extremely isolated and fearful as no one seems to have a clue. Yet a part of me deeply knows that I have no choice, this is the only path for me, please help, I need guidance and I wasn't able to see a way to message you directly. I'm so in fear right now...
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When did this meeting happen? Are you, Angelo, having live satsangs? (as of August 8, 2022.) Thanks. I may add more after hearing the whole session.
Hi Angello,
Today I at some point I was looking at my curtain and noticing the pattern of the fabric. The funny thing is I wasnt recting to it..sort of I wasnt getting anything from it..just looking...'plain' looking the 'plain'ness is what I noticed.
I've been noticing doing some activities where I seem to be doing normal stuff I've done a million times.. and there I am doing it..just me there doing it..that plain and simple... and also I looked at my hand today and I even sort of said "this is my hand... no sort of experience or excitement about it..just this thing thats my hand just being a hand...
I am probably trying to ask a question. What is the question? I don't know.
Ok, I'll now watch the video😄
That's great investigation. Keep at it, it will clarify more :)
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I will.thank you🙏
"Reality is an Etch-a-Sketch that just keeps shaking itself." 😂
Angelo I am truly enjoying your Satsang. Thank you kindly. Isn't mu nothingness?
If you walked into the dokusan room and said to the Roshi Mu is nothingess she would point you right back out the door and say, “Bring me Mu!” ❤️
🙏 Sat Nam ❤️
Where is the Mu!!!!??? 😂
When inquiring "What is Mu?" Is Mu meant to be a meaningless sound in which case you could substitute "What is Blorp?" but Mu is traditional? Or is it meant to reference the Japanese word "Mu" which actually means nothing i.e. 'What is 'nothing'?"
The question "Who am I?" seems sensible to me. With that I can do a non-verbal investigation into the "I am" sense, what is it, where is it, etc.
Essentially it is a way to get you beyond conceptual binding.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I understand that. The issue for me is that specific inquiry like "Who" gives me an idea of what to look for or where to inquire. With "Mu" i might as well just do shikantaza because it leaves me totally clueless as to where or how to inquire. Unless "Mu" is the specific Japanese word that means "nothing" then I can work with that.
@@geoffreylevens9045 but nothing is still a concept… do you see what I’m getting at and why mu is so potent? Also I should mention that you have to trust there is an actual resolution to the koan. Without that yeah it’s a conceptual conundrum that’s meaningless.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Isn't the "self", the "I", a concept as well?
I did get an interesting trap door open from investigating "attention". Not sure how I got there but a significant taste that lingered of the granular nature of this, the manifest world. The "refresh rate" is so fast I could not actually perceive it with my senses but the rapidity of the change from "this" to "this" to "this" was so fast I felt like I was being fire hosed with information and had a panicky feeling because I could not process or control it. I kept catching myself contracting, trying to valve it down or something. Almost a vertiginous feeling.
Edit: I found that granular, overwhelming rate of change from inquiring into my feeling "out of control", that I just seem to do one thing or another, or not, regardless of what I thought I'd do just prior to. Feeling that I have no control or very little over my thoughts and especially my actions. It's like I can almost see out of the corner of my eye, running over to the broad side of the barn where an arrow is stuck and quickly painting a bullseye around it so I can tell myself I hit the target.
Does somebody know who/where the art work in the back is from? Thank you!
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can we say that releasing a sensation is the same as seeing it arise and not do absolutely anything with it?
That’s a good way of saying it
It was the vortex.
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The egos greatest deception is to convince you it doesn't exist 😂 ....and also, it doesn't exist, trippy
Will you be posting the guided meditation(s) from this retreat?
Funny you should ask...
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Is that a yes? How can we find it? Thx
You talk about internal states......but I have read (and maybe experienced) that there is no internal state. Inside and outside are ways of speaking and constructing reality, but there is only "outside". ....or no separation between internal and external.
The experience of an internal state or internal world does indeed disappear in deeper state realization. So then why talk about it you might ask, well if I never talked about anything that will be seen to be illusory I wouldn't talk at all.
So glad you talk, dude!
My illusory self is so grateful!
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Otherwise I might just be stuck with myself for all eternity!
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@@macparker3549I know that one. I still feel “stuck “ with her. Rarely a vacation from her! Even as I wrote that, it comes that I need to keep acknowledging that something is observing this that is at least as important. ( I know it’s even more important, but that feels forced at this point.)
Hello, Oolala,
Nice to hear from you.
Interesting to notice that something is a bit different from 8 months ago.
I feel less stuck, less often.
Realizing slowly that for me stuckness usually/always means some kind of resistance to whatever is in the moment.
So, the more acceptance I bring to WHATEVER, the less I get “stuck” in fighting the currents of life.
All the best to you…
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The primary "ignorance" in buddhism, i.e., the 10th fetter, is not really not knowing how things really are. If that were the case then one could at some point declare that they now see how things really are and are therefore free of the 10th fetter... which would clearly not be the case. What would be the answer to the natural question that arises in response the claim: how are things REALLY? Any response would obviously be absurd.
The primordial ignorance in buddhism is the belief that things could somehow be other than they are, or more specifically that satisfactoriness/satisfaction is available.
I addressed it in today’s talk.
I have recognized a slightly different pitfall version, while watching videos, listening to talks on the subject:
Identification with people's joy excitement, sadness etc. Almost like watching spiritual "pornos"😢😂
If my own practice would be of that intensity guess it would be much more fulfilling and permanent than watching how others do "it"
Anyway thank you for your constant pointers towards "It"
Maybe I need to do a video about neutrality :)
Thx for your comment
Be thankful that you don’t go through this massive ups and downs, they are not as fun as they look like. The action movie you perceive is really a drama 🎭
I'm not sure if this is just on my phone, but there's no sound 🤔
Often when a longer video is just uploaded it will either have no sound or have low res for a short time before it appears normal on YT. Not sure why but check back in a few and it should be fine :)
Yes, there is no sound, its an illusion 😁
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake 🙏 Thank you, I didn't know that. And you are right, there's sound now 😊
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What would keep me with my partner if things are Just thoughts. What would keep me from following all thoughts if there is no choosing between. Im really taking the loung route to awakening 😂🎉
Choices are being made. There’s just no one making them.
Why is it God's work to just sit and be extremely uncomfortable 🤣
I'll do it. I'm doing it. Sitting here feeling like burning phantom sewage gas from hell is passing up through my belly and chest, just letting it do its thing, as I have been for many days now. But my mind keeps asking: Why? Why this?
To paraphrase Monty Python: What a strange universe...
The same mind that asks why do I have to go through this also interprets the experience as phantom sewage gas from hell.
This is why we’re called to look closer
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake It seems my mind is working very hard not to know that. Thanks for the reminder.
No offense but this sounds like a whole bunch of gobbledygook.
None taken. It can hit very differently in the right conditions. It is not uncommon someone hears something like this and thinks nothing of it, but then a couple of years later it hits in a different way.
Hey Angelo, are you getting my messages on Gmail?
Great video btw
On retreat currently. I check that periodically. I answer what I can.