Sooooo, I was here 9 months ago and in reading my prior messy state of mental illness 😂 compared to now, although nothing has “really” changed but perception, there are some pleasant perceptual shifts that have occured. YOU SIR, are “Off the hook” 😁🤸♂️🧘♀️🤣🤣 It’s definitely nice to be off the hook. Being responsible for my own awakening is a hellava job. Perhaps there’s something smarter than can take over from here, all the while knowing that the idea I had had any power or control in the first place was delusion, but I also suspect all part of the unfolding of this particular being. ❤ Thank you Angel😇O
Thanks for this. I hit the fear barrier today during self inquiry. It was so weird; like my sense of self started falling and falling into nothing. Usually i walk around feeling like Me is the feeling behind my eyes, i feel a shift into my stomach now. It happened so fast as well.
Something you said yesterday pairs beautifully with this talk about faith and trust, even practice. You said, “There can be movement of mind but it’s not grasped onto, it’s not touched by will, it’s not touched by aversion, it’s not touched by seeking or desire. And thus the thought substance remains totally inert and the aliveness or immersion or intimacy deepens infinitely but there’s nothing collecting that. Nothing collecting that experience of deepening. Nothing is accumulating. Nothing builds up here.” I had heard similar concepts, of course, but those words cracked open a new portal and impermanence was suddenly a living breathing everything. Quiet, and so peaceful…moving, changing…still. I knew it was right because of the deep peace. Thank you
Dear Angelo, I am so grateful for the retreats and your videos. You really can break down all that in such simple words and pictures and tips with such depth and wisdom and humour. Deeply thankful here.
Thank you for sharing this deep place of peace. A break from the suffering self. Your messages are so clear and strangely understandable by the now, rather than through my overused brain.
28:30 *don’t over look it because it’s boring. That’s exactly what the mind says too. “Nothing is happening here, it’s boring….blah blah blah. “ You’re such a blessing in my life Angelo. I’m a total mess most of the time but it’s nice to hear hopeful words and I can identify from experience with lots of your message. The mind has been UBER resistant to inquiry and practices the last 2 years. I’ve been doing all this for 10 years. Clearly I’m a slow learner. I’ve been horrible to be around the last 2 years. I can’t even stand to be around myself. Irritable AF, restless and angry are a 3 good descriptions. Haven’t felt joy or happiness in I don’t know how long. I’m amazed I’ve made it this long honestly. Anyway, as Gary Webber says, the “blah blah” goes on, and so it does.
Excellent retreat! Santa was good with me! Thank you Angelo! I never dared to think that I could meditate for 40 minutes, and not only once! 🤣🤣🤣 Such a beautiful gift!💓
Im glad you mentioned how the 8 fold path can get real confusing real fast. I struggled with it for years before i let it go completely and started having real insight.
I think I just had a shift, but it comes with some doubt because it's so simple. I suddenly had an insight during a workout that everything I perceive is kind of inside me. Maybe not inside me, but not separate from me. There is still a sense of here from which I am perceiving.
43:55 "You can't actually be on one side of anything, you're on both sides of all of it, and then there are no sides , and then there is no you separate from anything." 🙏❤️
Simply can't stop. Hated you for awhile. Didn't like you. Yet I'm hearing, tasting, feeling, knowing without words I'm already home, and home is right here and I can't stop. Thank you Want to say "I have so much to learn" and then no I don't, need to stop resisting what is.
@@MK7of7of7of7 thx for sharing. I have no problem with that. If someone is willing to investigate with honesty into their own experience I respect that
In one of his short stories, german writer Thomas Mann has a rich guy say "the secret to enjoying your wealth lies in never getting used to it". Even though I read that years before spirituality showed up on my radar, I thought that it was an incredibly profound statement and it stuck with me ever since.
So much love for you brother! Thank you for your continuous pointing. Over the last two years I've listened to you for probably hundreds of hours including 7 straight days in NC last month. Been through the book in hard copy and audio a few times as well. I am now starting to feel the aggregate effect of all of this repetition. Things are really starting to clarify in a non-conceptual way. Thank you!
At times I seriously think I'm loosing it, other times I'm so scared or when fear fails it drives me to almost rage. Somehow it's seems to have slipped into effecting reality as well, such as people or my dog even will interrupt me. Usually at critical times when I'm feeling as if I'm about to break through. I had no idea my ego would be so vicious or so eerily real. So thankful I had found you among much other information to let me know I'm not actually just completely insane. This is absolutely the most intense event I've ever experienced. It's so odd to me though, it's as if I can notice the bread crumbs way back my entire life. Dreams I had as a boy even. I suppose information really does reveal itself to us in the correct order and timing when it's needed. I had a huge interest in hermeticism and have some bible background from my childhood. But none of it really mattered to much to me until recently. The past week has been extremely intense, so much that I can't really function outside of home. Luckily I'm in the perfect position currently to have this war with myself. All the conditions that lead me to this point... I hope I can't fail, would be devastating. I've meditated on and off since my 20s, but I finally got it watching you. So thanks so much man, I really just wanted to say that. You deserve so much more and I hope people take the time to let you know, as I'm sure every one here does appreciate you and others like yourself. I know sometimes I keep playing on Fullscreen and don't get to the thumbs up myself. But again thank you sincerely, I hope to come back alive and tell you I survived, if not at least make it through lol, no stopping now though. P.s. it's not so bad, hope I didn't scare any one I mean it's fearful but not persistent and may be heavier on me for my demons were many it something. Thanks
Seeing with the heart is seeing through feeling, which it's also an amplifier and transmission station. A blurry vision at best, and always at the behest of the next fragile belief to trigger emotion. The pick of the toolbox when hardened and honed, but what when it dulls and found all alone? Just trust the science. ;)
I used to meditate for 30 minutes every morning. I stopped for a bit because life. Now I use inquiry as often as I can in the present moment. Things are getting really interesting!
The title takes me back to the famous dialogue between disciple and master that I've seen somewhere on YT (rough citation): The disciple asked: Can I see your feet, Guruji-ji? Master responded: It's not necessary. See it with your heart.
it's interesting to observe my concept of "conflicting information" begin to fall apart. thoughts about what's "true" versus "untrue" haven't exactly disappeared, it's more like they've begun to merge into one another. now, whenever I discuss a topic with a friend, I feel compelled to qualify my thoughts on it with, "from my current perspective..." because my perspective is moving all over the place!
nice explanation of the phrase "Familiarity breeds contempt" its a new angle on the dream, on the expectation, on the mental loops. consciousness when we can move into it consciously brings most of this to a space that balances the mind/body with clear consciousness. IMHO. thanks for this expression peace
“Why deviate?” Well, when you put it that way…..😊❤ Off the hook is nice, but it sometimes feels like a lot of effort-until it doesn’t. It’s interesting how something can become so obvious, after a long struggle. Thank you.
Tonys talk was released on xmas iirc. I bring this up bc you have no idea how comforting it is to know that you as well have trouble with linear time(?) 😅❤❤
Oh my god thats where my hate came from. 9 to 5 job and you have no idea how much else. Well, maybe you do. Lol Now im gonna watch the video. Thank you for that. Edited to add after the video. Thank you so. So much hate just feel away and left only ❤
Do enlightened people form beliefs about the world for example what things are preferable/not preferable? how else do they navigate the world or connect with people then??
Wow want to uncover beliefs regarding pain body. The sensation (s) patterns, history, memory, of sensation have buried a belief and I want to see it. Don't care if it makes sense or not. Ah ha moment. Feels like I just peeked at something very enticing.
I don't get how you can say the person can do anything about it, or knows where to go. Seemed like stars aligned then self dissolved. Was obvious self couldn't make it happen, or know how.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I wonder if you could speak more on this. Since the retreat I've had very pleasant shifts and there is some vague concern it might shift back lol.
IMHO… this talk should be on ‘The Greatest Hits’ list. Probably the 10 th time I’ve listened 🙏🏽 so direct, so clear, just home 🙏🏽💕
Thanks for listening
Thank you RUclips gods (and Angelo) for serving this video up to me right now 🙏🏼
YOU are IT, This is IT❣, Angelo, Thx for the ceaseless endurance of teachings and pointers to the ONE Heart!❣🙏
Sooooo, I was here 9 months ago and in reading my prior messy state of mental illness 😂
compared to now, although nothing has “really” changed but perception, there are some pleasant perceptual shifts that have occured.
YOU SIR, are “Off the hook” 😁🤸♂️🧘♀️🤣🤣
It’s definitely nice to be off the hook. Being responsible for my own awakening is a hellava job.
Perhaps there’s something smarter than can take over from here, all the while knowing that the idea I had had any power or control in the first place was delusion, but I also suspect all part of the unfolding of this particular being. ❤
Thank you
Angel😇O
Will need to listen this on repeat to fully feel into all that pointing. So much of it felt exactly right.
Wow... Speechless (is there anything that can really be said?) This one resonated deeply.
This video has triggered such a yearning in me that I didn't feel before! Thanks, Angelo
Thanks for this.
I hit the fear barrier today during self inquiry. It was so weird; like my sense of self started falling and falling into nothing. Usually i walk around feeling like Me is the feeling behind my eyes, i feel a shift into my stomach now. It happened so fast as well.
This is one of the most incredible videos. Such clear pointing, lands so deeply. Thank you, Angelo!
37:40 and 37:55
Something you said yesterday pairs beautifully with this talk about faith and trust, even practice. You said, “There can be movement of mind but it’s not grasped onto, it’s not touched by will, it’s not touched by aversion, it’s not touched by seeking or desire. And thus the thought substance remains totally inert and the aliveness or immersion or intimacy deepens infinitely but there’s nothing collecting that. Nothing collecting that experience of deepening. Nothing is accumulating. Nothing builds up here.”
I had heard similar concepts, of course, but those words cracked open a new portal and impermanence was suddenly a living breathing everything. Quiet, and so peaceful…moving, changing…still. I knew it was right because of the deep peace. Thank you
Awesome :))))
@@SimplyAlwaysAwakeParadoxically, I collected the quote 😂. Life is like that, but the peace remains.
Dear Angelo, I am so grateful for the retreats and your videos. You really can break down all that in such simple words and pictures and tips with such depth and wisdom and humour. Deeply thankful here.
Thank you for sharing this deep place of peace. A break from the suffering self. Your messages are so clear and strangely understandable by the now, rather than through my overused brain.
28:30 *don’t over look it because it’s boring.
That’s exactly what the mind says too.
“Nothing is happening here, it’s boring….blah blah blah. “
You’re such a blessing in my life Angelo.
I’m a total mess most of the time but it’s nice to hear hopeful words and I can identify from experience with lots of your message.
The mind has been UBER resistant to inquiry and practices the last 2 years. I’ve been doing all this for 10 years. Clearly I’m a slow learner.
I’ve been horrible to be around the last 2 years. I can’t even stand to be around myself. Irritable AF, restless and angry are a 3 good descriptions.
Haven’t felt joy or happiness in I don’t know how long.
I’m amazed I’ve made it this long honestly.
Anyway, as Gary Webber says, the “blah blah” goes on, and so it does.
Excellent retreat!
Santa was good with me!
Thank you Angelo!
I never dared to think that I could meditate for 40 minutes, and not only once!
🤣🤣🤣
Such a beautiful gift!💓
Happy holidays!
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake YOU made my holidays happy!
Happy New 2024!!!❤
The last part of the video was a big Ahhaaa here.. 😂😅 regarding struggling. Thank you so much for bringing light and insights here. 🙏😊💕Much love. ❤️🌷
Im glad you mentioned how the 8 fold path can get real confusing real fast. I struggled with it for years before i let it go completely and started having real insight.
I think I just had a shift, but it comes with some doubt because it's so simple.
I suddenly had an insight during a workout that everything I perceive is kind of inside me. Maybe not inside me, but not separate from me. There is still a sense of here from which I am perceiving.
@@sonofnature610 I recommend sitting with that insight directly without conceptualizing
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thank you. 🙏🏼❤️
43:55 "You can't actually be on one side of anything, you're on both sides of all of it, and then there are no sides , and then there is no you separate from anything."
🙏❤️
Simply can't stop. Hated you for awhile. Didn't like you. Yet I'm hearing, tasting, feeling, knowing without words I'm already home, and home is right here and I can't stop. Thank you
Want to say "I have so much to learn" and then no I don't, need to stop resisting what is.
@@MK7of7of7of7 thx for sharing. I have no problem with that. If someone is willing to investigate with honesty into their own experience I respect that
In one of his short stories, german writer Thomas Mann has a rich guy say "the secret to enjoying your wealth lies in never getting used to it".
Even though I read that years before spirituality showed up on my radar, I thought that it was an incredibly profound statement and it stuck with me ever since.
So much love for you brother! Thank you for your continuous pointing. Over the last two years I've listened to you for probably hundreds of hours including 7 straight days in NC last month. Been through the book in hard copy and audio a few times as well. I am now starting to feel the aggregate effect of all of this repetition. Things are really starting to clarify in a non-conceptual way. Thank you!
Awesome!! Glad to hear it. It is my pleasure
Thanks for sharing wisdom, wishing love, grace and courage for all to be open to look feel and be only here.☮♥🙏
At times I seriously think I'm loosing it, other times I'm so scared or when fear fails it drives me to almost rage. Somehow it's seems to have slipped into effecting reality as well, such as people or my dog even will interrupt me. Usually at critical times when I'm feeling as if I'm about to break through. I had no idea my ego would be so vicious or so eerily real. So thankful I had found you among much other information to let me know I'm not actually just completely insane.
This is absolutely the most intense event I've ever experienced. It's so odd to me though, it's as if I can notice the bread crumbs way back my entire life. Dreams I had as a boy even. I suppose information really does reveal itself to us in the correct order and timing when it's needed.
I had a huge interest in hermeticism and have some bible background from my childhood. But none of it really mattered to much to me until recently. The past week has been extremely intense, so much that I can't really function outside of home. Luckily I'm in the perfect position currently to have this war with myself. All the conditions that lead me to this point... I hope I can't fail, would be devastating. I've meditated on and off since my 20s, but I finally got it watching you. So thanks so much man, I really just wanted to say that. You deserve so much more and I hope people take the time to let you know, as I'm sure every one here does appreciate you and others like yourself. I know sometimes I keep playing on Fullscreen and don't get to the thumbs up myself. But again thank you sincerely, I hope to come back alive and tell you I survived, if not at least make it through lol, no stopping now though.
P.s. it's not so bad, hope I didn't scare any one I mean it's fearful but not persistent and may be heavier on me for my demons were many it something. Thanks
Thanks for sharing ❤
Bless you for these videos!!!
Seeing with the heart is seeing through feeling, which it's also an amplifier and transmission station.
A blurry vision at best, and always at the behest of the next fragile belief to trigger emotion.
The pick of the toolbox when hardened and honed, but what when it dulls and found all alone?
Just trust the science. ;)
I used to meditate for 30 minutes every morning. I stopped for a bit because life. Now I use inquiry as often as I can in the present moment. Things are getting really interesting!
Thank you for getting to the heart of the matter
I love this, thank you
You're so welcome!
Yes 👏🏼 Yes 👏🏼 Yes to all of this
Thank you
Welcome!
The title takes me back to the famous dialogue between disciple and master that I've seen somewhere on YT (rough citation):
The disciple asked: Can I see your feet, Guruji-ji?
Master responded: It's not necessary. See it with your heart.
Just thanks from the heart for everything!
I can’t believe I watched this entire video but it was so worth it 😊 Thank you! ❤ I don’t even want to explore tho. I feel So done.
😂😂😂I sat with ‘my straggle’ while listening this talk and all of the sudden I am “off the hook “ 😂
Were you ever actually on the hook then? 😋
Thank you ❤
Ooofff beautiful 🥰 Happy new year Angelo!
Happy new year!!
Thanks Angelo ❤
So beautiful Angelo
This is so encouraging. Thank you!
Pure love, this one. Palpable. Thank you, dear Angelo. 🥀✨
it's interesting to observe my concept of "conflicting information" begin to fall apart. thoughts about what's "true" versus "untrue" haven't exactly disappeared, it's more like they've begun to merge into one another. now, whenever I discuss a topic with a friend, I feel compelled to qualify my thoughts on it with, "from my current perspective..." because my perspective is moving all over the place!
Direct. Grateful!
Thank you for making this available. It helped me 😅
nice explanation of the phrase "Familiarity breeds contempt" its a new angle on the dream, on the expectation, on the mental loops. consciousness when we can move into it consciously brings most of this to a space that balances the mind/body with clear consciousness. IMHO. thanks for this expression peace
Yes....
“Why deviate?” Well, when you put it that way…..😊❤ Off the hook is nice, but it sometimes feels like a lot of effort-until it doesn’t. It’s interesting how something can become so obvious, after a long struggle. Thank you.
Exactly this, yes
Tonys talk was released on xmas iirc.
I bring this up bc you have no idea how comforting it is to know that you as well have trouble with linear time(?) 😅❤❤
WOW... Insane beauty.
🙏🙏🙏
Oh my god thats where my hate came from. 9 to 5 job and you have no idea how much else. Well, maybe you do. Lol
Now im gonna watch the video. Thank you for that.
Edited to add after the video. Thank you so.
So much hate just feel away and left only ❤
❤
❤🎉
Thank you for this video Angelo. I hear you use the word "round" in reference to retreats... What is a round in this context?
Do enlightened people form beliefs about the world for example what things are preferable/not preferable? how else do they navigate the world or connect with people then??
Wow want to uncover beliefs regarding pain body. The sensation (s) patterns, history, memory, of sensation have buried a belief and I want to see it. Don't care if it makes sense or not. Ah ha moment. Feels like I just peeked at something very enticing.
I don't get how you can say the person can do anything about it, or knows where to go. Seemed like stars aligned then self dissolved. Was obvious self couldn't make it happen, or know how.
Well done for the pronouncuation 😊❤
Is it possible to stop your own awakening? I feel like I’m going to sabotage it
Nope! :)
Thank you for your answer@@SimplyAlwaysAwake
I love this question. Thanks for asking.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I wonder if you could speak more on this. Since the retreat I've had very pleasant shifts and there is some vague concern it might shift back lol.
Is this speech for yourself or yo help someone here? No seriously 😅
Look around in comments, or watch any of the awakening story playlist. See what this is all about
Having been in and out and in and out of what you are speaking of it is really difficult to not say...shut up! I'm done.
Your labels are not much different than anyone else.
@@MK7of7of7of7 this isn’t about labels you have to see beyond then.
🙏🙏🙏