It's like the Wizard on the Wizard of OZ. Your thoughts say, Dont look at that man behind the curtain!!, But when you pull back the curtain and look, it's just a harmless, little old man. Absolutely nothing to be afraid of.
“I’m only nose to nose with the reality I don’t want, because I’m afraid of the reality I do want.” ~thought “I’m only afraid of Going for the reality I do want, because I doubt it will work out and then my dream will die and I’ll recognize my shitty lot in life is exactly where I belong, mere reflection of the shittiness that is inherently me.” ~thought “I’m doing x, but I should really be doing y, if I ever want to make it to z” ~thought “What would I do without thought” ~💭
Man. I’ve been wanting this for years. Couple of peaks just like you described. It is gorgeous. The rest tho is hell, hell and more hell. 😂😂😂 I’ve discovered a couple times in the last 10 years, within increasing clarity each time, that I’m deeply attached to my suffering, my personal hell. It’s what gives my life meaning I think. Baffling indeed. You’re a lovely soul and a beautiful messenger. ❤
On being deeply attached to your suffering... yes... whenever I have come back from a truly nonduality experience back into separation, I get this sense that it is not a "mistake" that I have thoughts. My ego is not a "mistake". It may be an illusion, but somehow it is also "the point". I suffer because God suffers. God suffers because God has goals, God is a DOer.
Man, I’m pretty depressed. I had a glimpse and am now not interested in anything, everything I do feels forced, even inquiry. Sometimes my desire to wake up is so intense & wonderful, and magical, and then it disappears, and I just want to sleep forever & do nothing. Just feels like my body has given up
When all else fails, confuse them. Stay here for no reason out of curiosity to see what happens afterwards, baffle your mind and anyone else. Make anyone, even yourself, wonder why you're still here. Being or living or existing just IS the case, regardless of how much we write or think about it. Be here because it's unusual and simple to, embrace the novelty of experiencing and have fun experimenting with how much you can bend reality out of shape like it's putty in your hands. 👍 Reality-bending, ATLA style. 🤣 Ride that pendulum until it reaches equilibrium, from pessimistic nihilism "it's not real 💀" to optimistic nihilism "it's not real 😎👍" - just because why not?
True story. The other evening, while doing my jogging, I had a surprise diarrhea. At this moment, believe it or not, you will experience self-doubt. But it was a valuable lesson. Self-doubt is nothing but that, a shit in your pants. Of course, I finish my 45 minutes run no matter what. But as a piece of advice, don't run to close to random dogs. They turn crazy.
Thank you Angelo for walking me through this process every day. The synchronities of your pointing with what ever is needed is amazing. This video was exactly for my son.
Ah! Im starting to see the more direct relationship between awakening and IFS! The way you described identifying with doubt and not realizing it is exactly how we help clients understand - experientially - that they are blended with a protector part, and the qualities of experience you outline as underneath thought identification are qualities of The Self!
I can see that doubt is all just a bunch of thoughts that show up and are believed. I know at some level that that's not who I really am, but man. It is an incredibly persistent belief that becomes exhausting to constantly return to examining. It's like I know the world isn't flat but I have to get out my pendulum and go through a litany of tests every 30 minutes to re-prove that fact only to forget it again and again and again.
It's like I need permission to let go, I'm worried my life will fall apart if I fully let go....I can see it just over there, but the thoughts keep coming back when I'm on the edge and saying....whoooaaa buddy you better not do this....very dangerous stuff, you'll lose control!
Yes this is what the mind does when it’s pushed hard. It comes back with the gloves off. AND…. those are just thoughts like any others… isn’t that funny?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake ...so your saying its safe to jump...what about all the stuff I need to take care of! Sort of a rhetorical question I guess, but it feels very iffy ...if you know what I mean. Like I could do this on retreat....but here?...now?...yikes. Come to your senses man!
i thought i was beyond doubt. but i recently realized that almost all of the struggle i feel is doubt. the doubt arises as “is this it?”. like, “i know this is direct experience, but it isn’t good enough or mind-blowing enough”. and whenever a solution presents itself, i doubt it. i don’t really know what to do with this, but i continue searching. anyway, thanks for your videos angelo and everyone in this community.
I see and feel my daily life being run by fear of losing control. This is suffering because it is counter to my hearts desire, to live fully in the magic present. I am aware of it but it feels so conditioned, so hard to change. When you say don’t react to thought, should I welcome the fear?
I found this awareness late last year and know I am infinite and not this body and mind. I'm unfortunately still seeking as a human and want to know what it's like when the body dies. What does this localized location of consciousness experience. Drives me crazy to be honest. Guess I still have a fear of death I need to shake.
Would you say doubt is resistance, a movement away from experiencing reality directly? Some kind of foundational thought? Or just a movement of thoughts and the identification/reactivity to thoughts - and that's where we have the power to unplug? I guess that 'informing' ourselves of this mechanism time and time again is a practice that allows for this letting go, primes the mind?
Where does shadow work come in? Wouldn’t they all just be thoughts? I’m pretty sure I understand what shadow work is and believe I’ve been working on a lot of past traumas especially through the mirror of relationships. But how do I know if what I am “working on” is help helpful… Or if I’m just caught in a thought loop? Because my doubt for/in life is pretty thick and always present.
I have never even thought about all this before. yet this video perfectly describes existence as I knew it for the past 30 years. you describe the experience so perfectly. the sweeping negativity that colored everything felt stubborn and locked-in. just negativity in itself was such a strong foothold, and of course I thought all of it was me. I thought I was experiencing in this way because of something fundamental in me.. and the rotating beliefs were, I need to fix myself, I need to get healthier, I need to think more positively, I need to...etc etc... and it always felt like it would take monumental force to push myself out of that. really, I wanted to push myself out of me. Now I feel even more gratitude for being here now -- free. I just never actually was fully conscious of the experience in the way you have desribed and how each part of it felt.
I had a direct realizing while listening to this video. So much doubt. I felt the shaking and passed through many layers of fear. Thank you. For that, and for such clear and lived instruction. It works.
Thanks for this. Thrust into the situation of a death in the family across the other side of the world, I find the glitching more and more startling, so I feel this video prepping me for what to come. 🙏
Im 3 mins into the video, the music, the visuals, the sound of ur voice, the way ur speaking, the envirounment im in, my state of mind, all of it just feels like one perfectly made sandwich🥪
Super helpful deep dive into doubt 👍 wishing you well. PS. I like the dreamy music in the background during these explanations. I also like the spooky/atmospheric music in the background of the guided explorations.
There is so much doubt. I know that you didn't do it but at the end of the last 5-day silent retreat you addressed doubt in the closing. After that I went for a walk and my head fell off, nothing other than this right now. All grace; absolutely no problems. Just freedom. The doubt is very much still there but it has a flesh wound and he's bleeding out fast... I'm so grateful.
I'm getting hit everywhere I look ,about the prime importance of thoughts ...identification /attachment etc ...I once read ,' how about using thoughts like tools ? ' ..looking objectively ,without the 'my thought ' component ...just .... can I use this ,( like a spanner ) ...Is it useful ? ...Or another teacher's awakening ..." It's just thoughts ! "..Imagining there is a thought stream above your head ..all thoughts already in existence ...& you're pulling them out ...but not possessing them ...like watching a train coming into a subway ..it stops ,,then off again .
Thank you. My soul feels the deep truth. There is much terror in surrendering to the unknown. I notice I’ll do it for periods at a time, but then I hit a deeper fear barrier and go back to what has been familiar and safe. Since an ayahuasca experience I’ve been integrating this. I’m living with parents because it’s familiar and the doubt& no trust in self thoughts grab me, they keep me childhood identity. It’s so intense. I’ve been so suicidal but it’s my identity wanting to crumble so my soul can live. How do we stabilize this state?
This really is grace because it’s quite obvious the ‘me’ I thought I was didn’t do a damn thing to bring any of this about. It definitely brought the drama, comedy, horror show though 😂😂😂 Just beautiful 🖤
Thank you Angelo. Doubt has been showing up for months now. When you spoke of being identified as doubt, it really struck a cord. And I notice as I am typing this comment, I seem to have an underlying agenda to get validation from you that yes Chris, you are identified as doubt-crazy right!-seems that doubt is a constant here and deep,y woven into this fabric f me.
Angelo, it is so relatable the huge doubting activity, the self-doubt, the hesitation, the fear. I often get a quite confused if I need to go for modalities which address this directly like trauma, healing, even therapy, or should I stick to self-inquiry. Sometimes the desperation to wake up seems to be coming from the discomfort caused by this state of struggle!
I loved this one so much 🙏 So clear. So comforting. I feel like when I finally get to the fear barrier, the memory of your soothing voice telling me it is all perfectly OK will give me the courage to just move through it. Thank you Angelo. You rock!
A lovely video. Thank you Angelo! Can you tell me what I can do other than wait, and let the body do the release of this constricted enerergy? Is it possible to tell the ego/mind to stop thinking? Probably not.
Is there a stage where you realize thoughts are just thoughts but that doesn’t bring any relief? I am cognizant of the thoughts but just realizing I don’t have to believe them doesn’t automatically render them all false.
What helped my experience was seeing through reactivity and the push and pull on situations that cause us to feel like we have to react in that moment the thoughts tell us too. That was when equanimity really started to arise. Hope this helps. 🙏 😊
@@jameswalton9268 That does really help. Thank you. That’s what I’m dealing with now. Just watching the reactivity - all in the body. Ie - the agitation, fear, anger, etc. Tolle says to treat each moment as if you chose it. I’m trying to but man…it feels sometimes like I’ve been stuck in this stage for years
@@MarkRoberts when you feel that heat sensation in your gut or wherever that sensation arises for you really look 👀 for the reason to react. Really try to sense into that right in that moment you feel that pull towards reaction. Once you see there is no reason, it ceases to occur. It took me a very long time with this part of the pathless path. Especially at work. 🙏
Man I just love your razor sharp pointings. So true what you say that once the thoughts are seen through then the interest just wanes and they catch you less and less. I actually got to a point where I was just seeing bs thought after bs thought - all seemingly well intentioned and trying to fix me or protect me (e.g ‘what is wrong with me’) - but the bottom line was there is no me here - the me is just more thoughts! So thoughts were trying to fix thoughts! At this point the futility of the whole thing was seen for what it was - an endless game of cat and mouse - thought after thought - that could only be ‘fixed’ by not playing the game anymore and just seeing the thoughts and rather than being them. What a relief! 🥳 Thanks Angelo for all you do - you’re super clear and direct and have definitely helped me in those moments when the doubt did feel real and I was questioning whether I was going mad. Thankfully I realised that the I was going mad trying to hold on for dear life - but actually things seem to be running pretty well now without the over zealous micro manager in charge of things! 🙏
Hi Angelo! (and everybody of course) I've heard you say that the closest we get, the more uncomfortable it feels when we are not aligned let's say. I am in that place and it feels so weird and confusing that I cannot come home all the way, that I cannot see all the way through the illusion since I have absolute willingness, I feel like I don't have any doubt left and that I really know what I am now. Even my egoic mind is crying out for me to awaken. Maybe this is the part when we have to see that we have no control over the unfolding of this process, when we have to accept that maybe we will wake up, maybe we won't...? But even this sounds absurd since I know what I am... How could I not be awake? Would like to here from you about this. Thanks.
OMG, your timing is so good! This was so well done and exactly what I needed to hear. Maybe you could wind this topic into the upcoming retreat? Thank you so much for all you do for us. ❤❤❤
[02:05] Haha. I get you. For me it was a quote from a dharma talk by Kwong roshi. It was something like "Thinking is a kind of secretion". Imagine, like saliva or sweat. Very relieving.
Hello angelo this sounds very inspiring definitely gives me lots of hope, but here i just don't know what to do, everyday i feel alot of tension on my body it literally hurts physically, everyday i just feel guilty and i just can't stop it i tried all types of practices (non duality pointings, ACIM, everything that's spiritual I've tried it) I just can't i don't know what I'm doing wrong, my mind is just insane all the time it affects everything in my life ive been like this for years, I'm just so tired of this Everyday I'm paranoid about everything how i look, how i should be around people, how i should not be, what's gonna happen, why do i feel like this, why i can't stop this thoughts, It's exhausting i can't live like this forever.😢
💙🙏.... You hope it's helpful ? .... So much more than you'll ever come to know, for so many, for eternity, these personals sharing will be a true reference of a living awaken one.
So doubt….. Say you’re in the process of coming off antidepressants (under medical supervision and going very very slowly to avoid withdrawal). And your doubt is to do with that you are somehow currently cheating being on antidepressants as you might not have your full range of emotions to work with? Is that a valid doubt, or is it just a thought? Is there any valid science to do with the actual physical body/mind that might actually hinder the process of awakening? Or is it still just thoughts? I think what I’m trying to ask is can you have an awakening on antidepressants? Thanks for the video!
It's like the Wizard on the Wizard of OZ. Your thoughts say, Dont look at that man behind the curtain!!, But when you pull back the curtain and look, it's just a harmless, little old man. Absolutely nothing to be afraid of.
I used to say this exact same thing about mind and fears x
Been thinking that same thing for a while now. Returning home, finding courage and a heart, all point directly to awakening for me.
The way you describe your experience from before awakening is exactly how I have been for the last 30 years.
“I’m only nose to nose with the reality I don’t want, because I’m afraid of the reality I do want.” ~thought
“I’m only afraid of Going for the reality I do want, because I doubt it will work out and then my dream will die and I’ll recognize my shitty lot in life is exactly where I belong, mere reflection of the shittiness that is inherently me.”
~thought
“I’m doing x, but I should really be doing y, if I ever want to make it to z”
~thought
“What would I do without thought”
~💭
You just named my top 3 and all 3 I have been circulating in my mind all morning.....wow.. spotlight moment.
Man. I’ve been wanting this for years. Couple of peaks just like you described. It is gorgeous. The rest tho is hell, hell and more hell. 😂😂😂
I’ve discovered a couple times in the last 10 years, within increasing clarity each time, that I’m deeply attached to my suffering, my personal hell. It’s what gives my life meaning I think.
Baffling indeed.
You’re a lovely soul and a beautiful messenger. ❤
On being deeply attached to your suffering... yes... whenever I have come back from a truly nonduality experience back into separation, I get this sense that it is not a "mistake" that I have thoughts. My ego is not a "mistake". It may be an illusion, but somehow it is also "the point". I suffer because God suffers. God suffers because God has goals, God is a DOer.
Sort of feels like all thought is doubt.
Man, I’m pretty depressed. I had a glimpse and am now not interested in anything, everything I do feels forced, even inquiry. Sometimes my desire to wake up is so intense & wonderful, and magical, and then it disappears, and I just want to sleep forever & do nothing. Just feels like my body has given up
yeah I have been through this kind of thing, it can be just a phase, good luck, it is ok
100% Agree
When all else fails, confuse them. Stay here for no reason out of curiosity to see what happens afterwards, baffle your mind and anyone else. Make anyone, even yourself, wonder why you're still here. Being or living or existing just IS the case, regardless of how much we write or think about it. Be here because it's unusual and simple to, embrace the novelty of experiencing and have fun experimenting with how much you can bend reality out of shape like it's putty in your hands. 👍 Reality-bending, ATLA style. 🤣 Ride that pendulum until it reaches equilibrium, from pessimistic nihilism "it's not real 💀" to optimistic nihilism "it's not real 😎👍" - just because why not?
I hope this video is the gateway to awakening for many. It's well put together and non-assuming - everybody's looking for relief
True story.
The other evening, while doing my jogging, I had a surprise diarrhea. At this moment, believe it or not, you will experience self-doubt. But it was a valuable lesson. Self-doubt is nothing but that, a shit in your pants.
Of course, I finish my 45 minutes run no matter what. But as a piece of advice, don't run to close to random dogs. They turn crazy.
This made my morning.
Thank you Angelo for walking me through this process every day. The synchronities of your pointing with what ever is needed is amazing. This video was exactly for my son.
Ah! Im starting to see the more direct relationship between awakening and IFS!
The way you described identifying with doubt and not realizing it is exactly how we help clients understand - experientially - that they are blended with a protector part, and the qualities of experience you outline as underneath thought identification are qualities of The Self!
15:20 “It’s completely safe, more than safe, it’s everything you’ve ever wanted“
I can see that doubt is all just a bunch of thoughts that show up and are believed. I know at some level that that's not who I really am, but man. It is an incredibly persistent belief that becomes exhausting to constantly return to examining.
It's like I know the world isn't flat but I have to get out my pendulum and go through a litany of tests every 30 minutes to re-prove that fact only to forget it again and again and again.
"Babe wake up! Another Angelo video just dropped."
It's like I need permission to let go, I'm worried my life will fall apart if I fully let go....I can see it just over there, but the thoughts keep coming back when I'm on the edge and saying....whoooaaa buddy you better not do this....very dangerous stuff, you'll lose control!
Yes this is what the mind does when it’s pushed hard. It comes back with the gloves off. AND…. those are just thoughts like any others… isn’t that funny?
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake ...so your saying its safe to jump...what about all the stuff I need to take care of! Sort of a rhetorical question I guess, but it feels very iffy ...if you know what I mean. Like I could do this on retreat....but here?...now?...yikes. Come to your senses man!
i thought i was beyond doubt. but i recently realized that almost all of the struggle i feel is doubt. the doubt arises as “is this it?”. like, “i know this is direct experience, but it isn’t good enough or mind-blowing enough”. and whenever a solution presents itself, i doubt it. i don’t really know what to do with this, but i continue searching. anyway, thanks for your videos angelo and everyone in this community.
I see and feel my daily life being run by fear of losing control. This is suffering because it is counter to my hearts desire, to live fully in the magic present. I am aware of it but it feels so conditioned, so hard to change. When you say don’t react to thought, should I welcome the fear?
Yeah, just feel it and hold space for it, let it know everything's okay right now and it's safe to be here. 💖
I've been a doubt machine.
I found this awareness late last year and know I am infinite and not this body and mind. I'm unfortunately still seeking as a human and want to know what it's like when the body dies. What does this localized location of consciousness experience. Drives me crazy to be honest. Guess I still have a fear of death I need to shake.
What's the difference between "don't know" mind and doubt? Can you speak to this?
Would you say doubt is resistance, a movement away from experiencing reality directly? Some kind of foundational thought? Or just a movement of thoughts and the identification/reactivity to thoughts - and that's where we have the power to unplug? I guess that 'informing' ourselves of this mechanism time and time again is a practice that allows for this letting go, primes the mind?
I love this so much 😊😊😊 Thanks Angelo, much love to you! 😀🤗
people will wake up to this. for sure.
This is a thought - sorry, couldn't resist 🤗
Where does shadow work come in? Wouldn’t they all just be thoughts? I’m pretty sure I understand what shadow work is and believe I’ve been working on a lot of past traumas especially through the mirror of relationships. But how do I know if what I am “working on” is help helpful… Or if I’m just caught in a thought loop? Because my doubt for/in life is pretty thick and always present.
Thank you! fear is the father of doubt and many other forms of self sabotaging that keeps us contracted and separate.
Holy shit Angelo, this was exactly what I needed to hear right now. Thank you!
I have never even thought about all this before. yet this video perfectly describes existence as I knew it for the past 30 years. you describe the experience so perfectly. the sweeping negativity that colored everything felt stubborn and locked-in. just negativity in itself was such a strong foothold, and of course I thought all of it was me. I thought I was experiencing in this way because of something fundamental in me.. and the rotating beliefs were, I need to fix myself, I need to get healthier, I need to think more positively, I need to...etc etc... and it always felt like it would take monumental force to push myself out of that. really, I wanted to push myself out of me. Now I feel even more gratitude for being here now -- free. I just never actually was fully conscious of the experience in the way you have desribed and how each part of it felt.
👍
Thank you for sharing! ❤ the music and video is beautiful!
I had a direct realizing while listening to this video. So much doubt. I felt the shaking and passed through many layers of fear. Thank you. For that, and for such clear and lived instruction. It works.
Thanks for this. Thrust into the situation of a death in the family across the other side of the world, I find the glitching more and more startling, so I feel this video prepping me for what to come. 🙏
Im 3 mins into the video, the music, the visuals, the sound of ur voice, the way ur speaking, the envirounment im in, my state of mind, all of it just feels like one perfectly made sandwich🥪
Well said
I like the edit on this one 👍
Thank you
Super helpful deep dive into doubt 👍 wishing you well.
PS. I like the dreamy music in the background during these explanations. I also like the spooky/atmospheric music in the background of the guided explorations.
This was really dope Angelo.
There is so much doubt. I know that you didn't do it but at the end of the last 5-day silent retreat you addressed doubt in the closing. After that I went for a walk and my head fell off, nothing other than this right now. All grace; absolutely no problems. Just freedom. The doubt is very much still there but it has a flesh wound and he's bleeding out fast... I'm so grateful.
I love how you worded this ❤
Thank you. 🙏❤️ Very helpful, perfect synchronicity. 🤗🙏❤️
Very energetical this video landed in silence. Thoughts push me forward into more thoughts but I moving backwards, It seems.
I'm getting hit everywhere I look ,about the prime importance of thoughts ...identification /attachment etc ...I once read ,' how about using thoughts like tools ? ' ..looking objectively ,without the 'my thought ' component ...just .... can I use this ,( like a spanner ) ...Is it useful ? ...Or another teacher's awakening ..." It's just thoughts ! "..Imagining there is a thought stream above your head ..all thoughts already in existence ...& you're pulling them out ...but not possessing them ...like watching a train coming into a subway ..it stops ,,then off again .
Thank you.
My soul feels the deep truth.
There is much terror in surrendering to the unknown.
I notice I’ll do it for periods at a time, but then I hit a deeper fear barrier and go back to what has been familiar and safe.
Since an ayahuasca experience I’ve been integrating this.
I’m living with parents because it’s familiar and the doubt& no trust in self thoughts grab me, they keep me childhood identity.
It’s so intense.
I’ve been so suicidal but it’s my identity wanting to crumble so my soul can live.
How do we stabilize this state?
Thank you !
Very relatable, helpful and inspiring 🙏🏼
💜 Beautiful 💜 and the combination of the music had me floating away 🕉️
This really is grace because it’s quite obvious the ‘me’ I thought I was didn’t do a damn thing to bring any of this about. It definitely brought the drama, comedy, horror show though 😂😂😂 Just beautiful 🖤
That was SUPERB. One of your best videos yet 💎🙏
Sometimes it's a just a willingness to go into the unknown. Thank you Angelo.
Gorgeously made. Awesome editing. Thank you angelo.
Thank you Angelo. Doubt has been showing up for months now. When you spoke of being identified as doubt, it really struck a cord. And I notice as I am typing this comment, I seem to have an underlying agenda to get validation from you that yes Chris, you are identified as doubt-crazy right!-seems that doubt is a constant here and deep,y woven into this fabric f me.
“I Am” is a belief
I am whatever you say I am
@@RLWarrior Radio won't even play my jam
Be comfortable with the uncomfortable
Angelo, it is so relatable the huge doubting activity, the self-doubt, the hesitation, the fear. I often get a quite confused if I need to go for modalities which address this directly like trauma, healing, even therapy, or should I stick to self-inquiry. Sometimes the desperation to wake up seems to be coming from the discomfort caused by this state of struggle!
Lovely!
yeah same for me. All doubt.
Fantastic video Angelo!
I loved this one so much 🙏 So clear. So comforting. I feel like when I finally get to the fear barrier, the memory of your soothing voice telling me it is all perfectly OK will give me the courage to just move through it. Thank you Angelo. You rock!
Thank you 🙏 friend
beautiful video
A lovely video. Thank you Angelo! Can you tell me what I can do other than wait, and let the body do the release of this constricted enerergy? Is it possible to tell the ego/mind to stop thinking? Probably not.
The right video to start my day with. Thank you so much Angelo. Have a great day. X
What is the music in the background, it's nice ambiance put it in the bio plz
I love the music in this too. It is taking me away somewhere, floating away.
I had a huge shift after listening to this, thank you 🙏
Is there a stage where you realize thoughts are just thoughts but that doesn’t bring any relief? I am cognizant of the thoughts but just realizing I don’t have to believe them doesn’t automatically render them all false.
What helped my experience was seeing through reactivity and the push and pull on situations that cause us to feel like we have to react in that moment the thoughts tell us too. That was when equanimity really started to arise. Hope this helps. 🙏 😊
@@jameswalton9268 That does really help. Thank you. That’s what I’m dealing with now. Just watching the reactivity - all in the body. Ie - the agitation, fear, anger, etc. Tolle says to treat each moment as if you chose it. I’m trying to but man…it feels sometimes like I’ve been stuck in this stage for years
@@MarkRoberts Yep, that's me too, Mark 🙏
@@MarkRoberts when you feel that heat sensation in your gut or wherever that sensation arises for you really look 👀 for the reason to react. Really try to sense into that right in that moment you feel that pull towards reaction. Once you see there is no reason, it ceases to occur. It took me a very long time with this part of the pathless path. Especially at work. 🙏
@@jameswalton9268 Wow thank you James. I just looked now and saw that there was no reason to be against the reaction in any way. Is that it?
Super helpful....thanks so much!
Man I just love your razor sharp pointings. So true what you say that once the thoughts are seen through then the interest just wanes and they catch you less and less. I actually got to a point where I was just seeing bs thought after bs thought - all seemingly well intentioned and trying to fix me or protect me (e.g ‘what is wrong with me’) - but the bottom line was there is no me here - the me is just more thoughts! So thoughts were trying to fix thoughts! At this point the futility of the whole thing was seen for what it was - an endless game of cat and mouse - thought after thought - that could only be ‘fixed’ by not playing the game anymore and just seeing the thoughts and rather than being them. What a relief! 🥳 Thanks Angelo for all you do - you’re super clear and direct and have definitely helped me in those moments when the doubt did feel real and I was questioning whether I was going mad. Thankfully I realised that the I was going mad trying to hold on for dear life - but actually things seem to be running pretty well now without the over zealous micro manager in charge of things! 🙏
Hi Angelo! (and everybody of course) I've heard you say that the closest we get, the more uncomfortable it feels when we are not aligned let's say. I am in that place and it feels so weird and confusing that I cannot come home all the way, that I cannot see all the way through the illusion since I have absolute willingness, I feel like I don't have any doubt left and that I really know what I am now. Even my egoic mind is crying out for me to awaken. Maybe this is the part when we have to see that we have no control over the unfolding of this process, when we have to accept that maybe we will wake up, maybe we won't...? But even this sounds absurd since I know what I am... How could I not be awake? Would like to here from you about this. Thanks.
Wow, this made me cry
OMG, your timing is so good! This was so well done and exactly what I needed to hear. Maybe you could wind this topic into the upcoming retreat? Thank you so much for all you do for us. ❤❤❤
Man, your book is one of the best I read since long.😁
Thank you Angelo! Can we let go of doubt before the first shift?
Good question. I would also like to know.
[02:05] Haha. I get you. For me it was a quote from a dharma talk by Kwong roshi. It was something like "Thinking is a kind of secretion". Imagine, like saliva or sweat. Very relieving.
Crashed landing!! Thanks Angelo ❤
Lovely
Thank you, Angelo, this was lovely in all aspects, really appreciate it.
Thanks, Angelo, beautifully presented ❤
This was great just at the right time 👍🏽
That is very good. Perfect for where I am at this moment.
Hello angelo this sounds very inspiring definitely gives me lots of hope, but here i just don't know what to do, everyday i feel alot of tension on my body it literally hurts physically, everyday i just feel guilty and i just can't stop it i tried all types of practices (non duality pointings, ACIM, everything that's spiritual I've tried it) I just can't i don't know what I'm doing wrong, my mind is just insane all the time it affects everything in my life ive been like this for years, I'm just so tired of this
Everyday I'm paranoid about everything how i look, how i should be around people, how i should not be, what's gonna happen, why do i feel like this, why i can't stop this thoughts,
It's exhausting i can't live like this forever.😢
thank you, Angelo, extremely helpful and very clear message...❤
It lands well, thank you! Blessings
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This video was super helpful. Thank you!
Thank you Angelo 💝
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Yup. Seeing this over and over again
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Super helpful!
Beautiful video. Love the music and visuals. ❤
Much gratitude 🙏🙏🙏
Very helpful indeed💡 🤗👌
Very relatable. Thank you. 👌
💙🙏.... You hope it's helpful ? .... So much more than you'll ever come to know, for so many, for eternity, these personals sharing will be a true reference of a living awaken one.
So doubt…..
Say you’re in the process of coming off antidepressants (under medical supervision and going very very slowly to avoid withdrawal). And your doubt is to do with that you are somehow currently cheating being on antidepressants as you might not have your full range of emotions to work with? Is that a valid doubt, or is it just a thought? Is there any valid science to do with the actual physical body/mind that might actually hinder the process of awakening? Or is it still just thoughts?
I think what I’m trying to ask is can you have an awakening on antidepressants?
Thanks for the video!
well some will say you can’t and others will say you can ……. and then of course there’s the whole “who” is awakening……?
Beautiful. Thanks.
Doubt. OCD is also known as the Doubting Disease.
Very heavy weight, I wish to be free of it.
Beautiful Angelo, thank you for sharing so articulately and truthfully!
Perfect insight. Love it!
Thank you, this feels really key. 🙏
Beautiful video. I’m sure this will wake up someone 😊
So beautiful.
15:12 why are the rocks on the right puckering at me like that
Very helpful thanx!
beautiful