Sometimes the timing/subject of videos just amaze me how well they align with what I needed to hear. Thank you as always and thank you for sharing the charity you gave to.
❤Blessing for you and all your work along with everyone involved. And for the many opportunity's for us to benefit from no matter where we are in the circle of life.
Hey, Angelo. I can only describe the experience as traveling through the Black Hole of the Self at the speed of light. As a five-year-old boy the pressure, spinning, and an elevated sense of hearing and touch prior to letting go into the portal or void scared me. I resisted it, however, it affected me deeply. Uncovering what that was all about became the most important mission in my life. After forty-seven years of trying to figure it out... I let go of my fear (I was willing to die) and whoosh... off I went. It happened three different times over the course of a few months. Each passage took me somewhere deeper and the realizations were life-changing each in a different way. That was ten years ago.
Thank you for sharing, Koort :) You always post such amazingly insightful and intriguing accounts. Thank you for sharing! 🙏 Edit : this echoes Yeeta's comment 👆 and a few other anecdotal accounts/experiences I've come across. Enter the void... ☀️
"...knowing where we come from..." I can handle pretty much all the "weirdness" that comes from dropping illusions, but the fact that everything has always existed twists me in knots every time.
I was just there yesterday. There’s “a barrier” still further than that?! Well, now you got me interested! I’m going to go back there and see. I like your attempt to describe it. It’s accurate. It’s a place where quantum collapse kind of stops (particles follow the path of what “will” happen stops being a concept). Everything becomes vague, like a lazy imagination. There’s a very slow wave movement of everything in random directions (but directions aren’t a concept there either). I don’t know what this “deep” place is, why it exists, why we can access it, or what this is all about. Knowing breaks down there anyway, so I don’t have to be concerned about knowing either. This is very meta, and strange. And there is a consensus of the existence of this strange transcendental domain, which is even stranger.
Every day I ponder awakening. I want the experience of consciousness that is not coming from my meat suit, but myself as the environment in its entirety.
I was a conflict resolution counselor and grant writer at Covenant House NYC for a number of years. I'm sure that your donation is well appreciated. I started a discussion group about identity and perception with homeless, young New Yorkers based, in part, with the insights of non-duality and a number of the participants continue to contact me with questions and concerns. It was an amazing experience.
At sone point I’d like to have more contact with that population. At the very least teach mindfulness and give them opportunity to do some emotion work.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Covenant House tends to be very receptive to outside teachers. Although NY is their largest center and we had quite a few outside teachers, psychologists and healers working with out young people, I'm reasonably confident that other locations would be just as receptive.
The segue from this video to your linked video regarding the spiritual desert was brilliant. I'm in that calm desert (and wasn't sure why) and these back to back videos provided that needed transference that actually made me lightheaded and created a deep peace. Thank you, Angelo:-)
man, i love you. since your interview with guru viking, i realize more that a good teacher like you, gives the studends a feeling, that they are not 'below' the so called 'awakened' teacher. That was amazing and eye opening when you said "I don't see unenlightened people". I realized that a good teacher, like rupert spira or you give others the feeling, that we are already awake. And also I love (especially on you) that you talk in a extremely clear way, so simple, so that every word "hits" me. Thank you Angelo.
Thanks a lot. I am very grateful to you for all your valuable teachings. It would be very interesting if you would make a video about the often unpleasant feeling of inner emptiness that we seek to avoid. Should we investigate it? How ?Why do we want to avoid it so much? Thanks a lot.
I think the easiest way to "go through that door" into the unborn, is to do a background foreground shift: we are already the unborn, and all the senses, and thoughts, emotions and phenomena are the doorways we walked through. That's all happening within and from the unborn. We kind of have to moonwalk back through that doorway of experience to experience who is experiencing.
If you are talking about the doorways to an Ah-Ha moment, yes. However, there is nothing you can do to go through the Black Hole of the Self. It takes you.
This is so excellent. I was trying to describe this to a friend last night. My words "grocking the gestalt." Your description is better. For me there is no doing, it happens when conceptual doing empties out. So hard to talk about.
Your creativity is so refreshing, soothing and surprising. Love the bubbles...they were so fitting to your pointing. And the shirt! Holy Moly let’s hear about that portal affect! If I may Angelo🤗. . . group hug from all of us to you. ❤️
Let's see where the journey goes from here, where nothing seems to happen,it seems to be a knowing,all appearancing is me,without thinking.....let's go deeper😊... it's always nice to hear from you Angelo💛
The reaction body seems to be composed of several emotional triggers that have been gathered over a lifetime. Is a core inquiry question sufficient to penetrate through that or each element of the reaction body has to been seen and investigated separately? If it is the latter, is there a way to work with this reaction body when it is latent and not getting triggered or we have to wait for them to come up? Would becoming intimate with every sensation in the body and mind at any given time without trying to distract ourselves to feel better be a good practice for this?
Also, for me the specifically triggering elements are people. Not external but internal… Whatever was passed through into this space… at the end of it there was no room at all and only one possible way of movement… I know it sounds like a rebirthing type of experience but I don’t mean this necessarily or even really at all in a physical way because I’ve done all that stuff… Just in a way that felt protracted complete and total… And I said after the fact there was no help for it, for me, even if it had been possible for someone else to help, there was no space except within and it was just me and God (or whatever you call the vastness boundlessness of pure love or quantum reality or whatever). I’m sorry for all the rambling around the subject … habit. I hope it’s helpful in any way. All of that to say: about the triggers and reaction body. The “within” - while (in the nospace to move or breathe) it felt consciously as a union/merging of two into one - and yet, after, once given some breathing room, the “collective within” unfolded again ❤️ and there’s :now: actual possibility for holdingsafespace healing gratitude forgiveness releasing whatever is yet needed stillll there are areas that trigger an old sensation of “what to do with this one? What’s being asked??” gratitude-forgiveness-acceptance-allowance until complete? it’s all one within… And the thought comes: can’t multitask?!? How can this focus …. through…. as there’s still an outward reality being reflected where stuff has to get done - is getting stuff done out there (there’s no outside tho) just a distraction?? 😵💫 These questions can’t be answered. Answers come. Sigh. Here we are, let’s go 🙏🙏 PS Angelo mentioned a honeymoon period… 🤔
Ok. To “maybe” sum up the word salad (😬🙏) “I could not and would not be here without YOU/I am here with for and from you” (Often my question/koan? has been “who are others/other people?”)
IMO, learning inquiry is the quickest, most direct path. If you are like me, however, you will waste your time, do all sorts of practices until you tire yourself out and finally realize none of them were needed.
Excellent video to assist with meditation and emotional work. Great Charity, 🙏 ❤ Saved this one to favorites. Thank you as always. Watched one of your conversations with ZDogMD. So freaking thankful you finished your book 📖 and continue to edumacate us 🤗. It’s all working like a charm.
I think I'm not experiencing what you're talking about, just because I'm "trying" or that "I" have some emotional blockages... and it reminds me of a state "I" have been in when fasting or eating only fruit where things can seem fluent and connected, this is the light that bestows wisdom and truth see the emotional poise of a child who hasn't built resiliance or differentiation between forms. And then since its only an illusion/portal to another fathomless realm, the mind gets lost in translation and becomes the self? And so the mind/spiritual world reflects the physical body and then reverberates back and forth. And the body channels divergence and convergent wave patterns that is the duality, beneath the nondual matrix... "nonthinking mind" And we do so for the other (youtube) but also for the self, and thus its really about self-awakening and the journey of spirit through the body & mind I found this nondual thing can also be found by balancing the head on the body and notice how the weight sits upon, and through to the Earth/concrete Theres another side thats like talking to an object as if its a friend, just complete intimacy with awareness. This is awareness of awareness because the items "pen" or "comb" or "balloon" or grapefruit" have awareness hidden within, just like the crystals contain divine fractal information... and then being aware of your awareness of awareness you sense the nondual duality that paradoxically exists and maybe you hope for a like on your video or comment just to feel alive and appreciated, to be reminded that the thousand sands are one, and you just didn't know.
The force is strong with this one 😃 Umm excuse me Angelo but you want us to actually go through that barrier? I was ONE there and all there is, is instinct, it stopped me (not ready obviously) There was no going further because I knew if I kept going it would be death, going past this point there is no coming back. Did I hear you right, with keep going? I think in a way instinct showed me where to go and has just been waiting for me to catch up, just so it can throw me off the cliff .😂 It would seem that awakening and death are really the same thing. Awakening gives birth to death and death gives birth to awakening.
Yes. Jumping off a cliff is one of many ways to die. That's your entrance to the black hole. Mine was fire. You must be willing to die. Figuratively, of course.
Angelo, isn't it time that someone takes up the mantel and has a real discussion about the experience of the void passage, the portal to the Absolute, or the Black Hole of the Self? Is there even an agreed-upon name for it? Few RUclipsrs have had the guts to mention the topic. Stephen Wolinsky and Yogiraj SatGurunath Siddhanath have mentioned it but mostly gloss over the experience as you did in this video. In my opinion, it is a shame that no one even now after thousands of years of Advaita Vedanta will have a meaningful dialogue about it. Maybe no one can talk objectively about it. Is it that uncommon of an experience that no one will talk about it? For goodness sakes, we talk about every other part of the journey. Let's talk about this.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thank you, but I don't think your video touches upon the experience that I am referring to. No big deal. It's all of the mind anyways.
@@Koort1008 I’m assuming you are talking about the realization of no-self, which I point to all the time. Although anyone who has realized it knows it’s essentially impossible to talk about with words and quite a radical transformation. It’s also still quite uncommon even among those who have had authentic awakening. If that’s not what you are referring to then please clarify what exactly you are referring to.
Angelo is there a way to get more advice or connect with you via email or in some other way? Have really been enjoying the videos and appreciate your teachings
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Your a beautiful soul thank you Angelo! I hope my enquiry breaks me free of the illusion sooner than later.
Thank you, again, Angelo!
Sometimes the timing/subject of videos just amaze me how well they align with what I needed to hear. Thank you as always and thank you for sharing the charity you gave to.
:)
Thanks!
Thanks so much :)
❤Blessing for you and all your work along with everyone involved. And for the many opportunity's for us to benefit from no matter where we are in the circle of life.
I love the donations every month. An incredibly benevolent act. ❤️
Hey, Angelo. I can only describe the experience as traveling through the Black Hole of the Self at the speed of light. As a five-year-old boy the pressure, spinning, and an elevated sense of hearing and touch prior to letting go into the portal or void scared me. I resisted it, however, it affected me deeply. Uncovering what that was all about became the most important mission in my life. After forty-seven years of trying to figure it out... I let go of my fear (I was willing to die) and whoosh... off I went. It happened three different times over the course of a few months. Each passage took me somewhere deeper and the realizations were life-changing each in a different way. That was ten years ago.
Thank you for sharing, Koort :)
You always post such amazingly insightful and intriguing accounts. Thank you for sharing! 🙏
Edit : this echoes Yeeta's comment 👆 and a few other anecdotal accounts/experiences I've come across. Enter the void... ☀️
I wonder if that's what Nietzsche was talking about. He was scared to enter the void.
@@nat998 Nisargadatta would say, "the Absolute is nothing perceivable, nothing conceivable".
Thank you for the teaching. Thank you for helping to provide refuge. No quotes this time, no wit. A simple joy to have crossed paths. See you around.
Amen to that 🙏
Simple joys...
Gratitude.
Peace for you, Human 🌻
See you 'round...
:)
@@nat998 For you as well, Nat. Until then.
@Ann 💛🌻🤗
Peace and many many blessings xxx :)
Be kind to yourself and take the very best of care, always!!
@Ann Yes, indeed it is. :P
@Ann 😊 I learned how to use emojis again! yay It's the simple things, yeah?
"...knowing where we come from..." I can handle pretty much all the "weirdness" that comes from dropping illusions, but the fact that everything has always existed twists me in knots every time.
How twisted art thou now?
That is one of the coolest shirts I've ever seen
It’s one of my favs
Thanks, Angelo. Much love
THANK YOU
Welcome :)
I was just there yesterday. There’s “a barrier” still further than that?! Well, now you got me interested! I’m going to go back there and see. I like your attempt to describe it. It’s accurate. It’s a place where quantum collapse kind of stops (particles follow the path of what “will” happen stops being a concept). Everything becomes vague, like a lazy imagination. There’s a very slow wave movement of everything in random directions (but directions aren’t a concept there either). I don’t know what this “deep” place is, why it exists, why we can access it, or what this is all about. Knowing breaks down there anyway, so I don’t have to be concerned about knowing either. This is very meta, and strange. And there is a consensus of the existence of this strange transcendental domain, which is even stranger.
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"Oh brothers, let's go down, come'on down, don't you wanna go down? Oh brothers let's go down, down in the river to pray" 😊
Gratitude.
You're welcome
Every day I ponder awakening. I want the experience of consciousness that is not coming from my meat suit, but myself as the environment in its entirety.
Meat suit - lol.
Just one big magical sausage.
Knock knock knocking on........god dam it the wrong side of the door!!!!! 💥💜
💛😉
😂
I was a conflict resolution counselor and grant writer at Covenant House NYC for a number of years. I'm sure that your donation is well appreciated. I started a discussion group about identity and perception with homeless, young New Yorkers based, in part, with the insights of non-duality and a number of the participants continue to contact me with questions and concerns. It was an amazing experience.
At sone point I’d like to have more contact with that population. At the very least teach mindfulness and give them opportunity to do some emotion work.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Covenant House tends to be very receptive to outside teachers. Although NY is their largest center and we had quite a few outside teachers, psychologists and healers working with out young people, I'm reasonably confident that other locations would be just as receptive.
I'm digging the new faux hawk
Wow. Such amazing, profound insights!
The segue from this video to your linked video regarding the spiritual desert was brilliant. I'm in that calm desert (and wasn't sure why) and these back to back videos provided that needed transference that actually made me lightheaded and created a deep peace. Thank you, Angelo:-)
Welcome :)
man, i love you. since your interview with guru viking, i realize more that a good teacher like you, gives the studends a feeling, that they are not 'below' the so called 'awakened' teacher. That was amazing and eye opening when you said "I don't see unenlightened people". I realized that a good teacher, like rupert spira or you give others the feeling, that we are already awake. And also I love (especially on you) that you talk in a extremely clear way, so simple, so that every word "hits" me. Thank you Angelo.
Thanks for the feedback ☺️
Very compelling. Thank you for all of your wonderful insights.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks a lot. I am very grateful to you for all your valuable teachings. It would be very interesting if you would make a video about the often unpleasant feeling of inner emptiness that we seek to avoid. Should we investigate it? How ?Why do we want to avoid it so much? Thanks a lot.
Good idea :)
I think the easiest way to "go through that door" into the unborn, is to do a background foreground shift: we are already the unborn, and all the senses, and thoughts, emotions and phenomena are the doorways we walked through. That's all happening within and from the unborn. We kind of have to moonwalk back through that doorway of experience to experience who is experiencing.
If you are talking about the doorways to an Ah-Ha moment, yes. However, there is nothing you can do to go through the Black Hole of the Self. It takes you.
This is so excellent. I was trying to describe this to a friend last night. My words "grocking the gestalt." Your description is better. For me there is no doing, it happens when conceptual doing empties out. So hard to talk about.
Thanks Angelo 🙏
Welcome!
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Your creativity is so refreshing, soothing and surprising. Love the bubbles...they were so fitting to your pointing. And the shirt! Holy Moly let’s hear about that portal affect! If I may Angelo🤗. . . group hug from all of us to you. ❤️
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thank you!
You're welcome!
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake do you one on one's my friend
@@MrADTNZ not at this point, just chronically overbooked :)
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake ok my friend..love your stuff
Let's see where the journey goes from here, where nothing seems to happen,it seems to be a knowing,all appearancing is me,without thinking.....let's go deeper😊... it's always nice to hear from you Angelo💛
Buckle your seat belt, Birgit (because Kansas is going bye bye) 💛🌻
Yes, the fixed belt.....for the barriers🤓
@@birgit8996 🤓🤘... Right on! 😜💛
Thank you, Angelo 💙
Welcome!
As always so helpful. Thank you 🙏🏼💖
Am I the only one that had to pause and read Angelo’s shirt? 😃
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Thanks angelo😀
You're welcome 😊
Thoughts adding to more thoughts...Love you and thank you Angelo
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The reaction body seems to be composed of several emotional triggers that have been gathered over a lifetime. Is a core inquiry question sufficient to penetrate through that or each element of the reaction body has to been seen and investigated separately? If it is the latter, is there a way to work with this reaction body when it is latent and not getting triggered or we have to wait for them to come up? Would becoming intimate with every sensation in the body and mind at any given time without trying to distract ourselves to feel better be a good practice for this?
So much gratitude for your questions in word form 🤣🙏 I was feeling around for exactly those kinds of words…
Also, for me the specifically triggering elements are people. Not external but internal… Whatever was passed through into this space… at the end of it there was no room at all and only one possible way of movement… I know it sounds like a rebirthing type of experience but I don’t mean this necessarily or even really at all in a physical way because I’ve done all that stuff… Just in a way that felt protracted complete and total… And I said after the fact there was no help for it, for me, even if it had been possible for someone else to help, there was no space except within and it was just me and God (or whatever you call the vastness boundlessness of pure love or quantum reality or whatever). I’m sorry for all the rambling around the subject … habit. I hope it’s helpful in any way.
All of that to say: about the triggers and reaction body. The “within” - while (in the nospace to move or breathe) it felt consciously as a union/merging of two into one - and yet, after, once given some breathing room, the “collective within” unfolded again ❤️ and there’s :now: actual possibility for holdingsafespace healing gratitude forgiveness releasing whatever is yet needed stillll there are areas that trigger an old sensation of “what to do with this one? What’s being asked??”
gratitude-forgiveness-acceptance-allowance until complete? it’s all one within…
And the thought comes: can’t multitask?!? How can this focus …. through…. as there’s still an outward reality being reflected where stuff has to get done - is getting stuff done out there (there’s no outside tho) just a distraction?? 😵💫
These questions can’t be answered. Answers come. Sigh. Here we are, let’s go 🙏🙏
PS Angelo mentioned a honeymoon period… 🤔
Ok. To “maybe” sum up the word salad (😬🙏)
“I could not and would not be here without YOU/I am here with for and from you”
(Often my question/koan? has been “who are others/other people?”)
Yes, working toward this after awakening is key. All reactivity can be rooted out :)
IMO, learning inquiry is the quickest, most direct path.
If you are like me, however, you will waste your time, do all sorts of practices until you tire yourself out and finally realize none of them were needed.
Nice! Something to watch before I drift to sleep
This is amazing. How do(does) you function as a human in the world, in your case as an anesthesiologist, from this place?
the nice thing is I don't have to do anything, there is just environment functioning :)
Excellent video to assist with meditation and emotional work. Great Charity, 🙏 ❤ Saved this one to favorites. Thank you as always. Watched one of your conversations with ZDogMD. So freaking thankful you finished your book 📖 and continue to edumacate us 🤗. It’s all working like a charm.
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Much gratitude, brother 🙏
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I didn't know you use this channel to donate and make a difference! I won't skip the ads ❤️
I think I'm not experiencing what you're talking about, just because I'm "trying" or that "I" have some emotional blockages... and it reminds me of a state "I" have been in when fasting or eating only fruit where things can seem fluent and connected, this is the light that bestows wisdom and truth
see the emotional poise of a child who hasn't built resiliance or differentiation between forms. And then since its only an illusion/portal to another fathomless realm, the mind gets lost in translation and becomes the self? And so the mind/spiritual world reflects the physical body and then reverberates back and forth.
And the body channels divergence and convergent wave patterns that is the duality, beneath the nondual matrix... "nonthinking mind"
And we do so for the other (youtube) but also for the self, and thus its really about self-awakening and the journey of spirit through the body & mind
I found this nondual thing can also be found by balancing the head on the body and notice how the weight sits upon, and through to the Earth/concrete
Theres another side thats like talking to an object as if its a friend, just complete intimacy with awareness. This is awareness of awareness because the items "pen" or "comb" or "balloon" or grapefruit" have awareness hidden within, just like the crystals contain divine fractal information... and then being aware of your awareness of awareness you sense the nondual duality that paradoxically exists
and maybe you hope for a like on your video or comment just to feel alive and appreciated, to be reminded that the thousand sands are one, and you just didn't know.
🙏🙏🙏📿💎
The Rabbit hole has rabbit holes that have rabbit holes…
It appears to me that there is only one hole but one's thoughts, and fears determine how far one goes down it.
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So, where is the link to donate?
can you please teach how to breathe and speak underwater?
The force is strong with this one 😃
Umm excuse me Angelo but you want us to actually go through that barrier?
I was ONE there and all there is, is instinct, it stopped me (not ready obviously) There was no going further because I knew if I kept going it would be death, going past this point there is no coming back.
Did I hear you right, with keep going?
I think in a way instinct showed me where to go and has just been waiting for me to catch up, just so it can throw me off the cliff .😂
It would seem that awakening and death are really the same thing. Awakening gives birth to death and death gives birth to awakening.
May the force be with you always, Yeeta! 🙏💛🛸
Yes. Jumping off a cliff is one of many ways to die. That's your entrance to the black hole. Mine was fire. You must be willing to die. Figuratively, of course.
@@nat998 strong is the force with you Nat. May the force be with you always🌸
@@Kim-sherie Thank you! 🌻
"Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose" 🙏😉
@@Koort1008 Surrender to the unknown 🙏
Angelo, isn't it time that someone takes up the mantel and has a real discussion about the experience of the void passage, the portal to the Absolute, or the Black Hole of the Self? Is there even an agreed-upon name for it? Few RUclipsrs have had the guts to mention the topic. Stephen Wolinsky and Yogiraj SatGurunath Siddhanath have mentioned it but mostly gloss over the experience as you did in this video. In my opinion, it is a shame that no one even now after thousands of years of Advaita Vedanta will have a meaningful dialogue about it. Maybe no one can talk objectively about it. Is it that uncommon of an experience that no one will talk about it? For goodness sakes, we talk about every other part of the journey. Let's talk about this.
No matter what it sounds like I'm talking about I'm always talking about no-self ;) I have a video about that specifically.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thank you, but I don't think your video touches upon the experience that I am referring to. No big deal. It's all of the mind anyways.
@@Koort1008 I’m assuming you are talking about the realization of no-self, which I point to all the time. Although anyone who has realized it knows it’s essentially impossible to talk about with words and quite a radical transformation. It’s also still quite uncommon even among those who have had authentic awakening. If that’s not what you are referring to then please clarify what exactly you are referring to.
Angelo is there a way to get more advice or connect with you via email or in some other way? Have really been enjoying the videos and appreciate your teachings
Just the email list for retreats : books.SimplyAlwaysAwake.com
🙏🙏🙏