What the Heck is Direct Experience?
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You explain this so well and so clearly. Been following you for two years now. The first moment of direct experience was startling. Then it just became what is. Trying to explain it is so hard, because the moment you think about it, it no longer becomes it, it becomes an illusion of it. To hear, to see, to feel, to touch, to be, before the mind takes hold and creates a story around it, before it becomes a narrative and becomes part of the illusion, is something so inexplicable, and yet it always is to the point that it is mundane in its absolute perfection.
Just a beautiful talk.
Well said
Yes exactly, in reference to another comment on this video, this is exactly what i'm referring to. To say "everything is already direct experience including mind reflection, while true in some sense, is to totally miss the mark here.
I really had an aha moment when you mentioned how control can manifest. Thank you!
For me this whole process feels like going down out of your head into reality experiencing it without any mental filters judging or interpreting it. The latter would add labels, distort it in a way and consume some of your capacity to experience the world fully. I recently remembered two instances in my life representing this. In 7th grade i was really afraid of giving a talk pushing away fear thinking it will ruin my ability to talk freely. The presentation went pretty bad and i stuttered alot. In 11th grade i just felt the fear directly just accepting it and i literally laughed out loud at my insecurity in front of the whole class just before starting to talk 😂. U really don't give shits anymore ❤🎉
He is very clear, I personally need a method of Inquiry to access DE and then, bit by bit; "seeing' no entity, then other aspects of this complex self- defending "self".
Another beautiful talk.😍
I was half expecting the silhouettes of naked people to shower behind the curtain. That would be a great pointer for people who complain about background music, or sound quality in the videos done at a retreat. 😂
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You don’t see them?
@@rbecerramiami In a way I do, I guess, because I brought it up lol
So to naturally experience directly you need to be open to the totality of experience, even including all the experience you'd do anything but feel, you can't pick and choose or leave something out and that's where shadow work comes into play. That is what I took from this.
I’d say after a long period of daily meditation I became the observer. After that I could respond to life rather than react. It also led me to an experience of golden light that felt it was coming through my back and out my chest. I saw myself dissolve into tiny grains of golden light. After this I experienced life in bubbles of time as I progressed from one moment to the next. This lasted about 3 months. Finally, I settled into a more normal way of being but I’ve become more balanced emotionally. I have no mental illness, I’ve been tested 😂 awakening is a life long journey.
I've got to a point where I have realised that control is an illusion and that whatever happens is perfect, because that's al there is. However, some of those around me have state that I seem overly blunt at times and too carefree. I forget that other people do not view the world in the way that I do.
Angelo's allergic to formal wear 😂
as he should be 🙌
😂 I think he's allergic to inauthenticity
Way back when, Vyasa had just finished writing the Mahabharata. Despite this great achievement, he felt a nagging void, like something crucial was missing. Seeking answers, he prayed fervently to God.
Suddenly, the celestial sage Narada descended, strumming his veena. With a knowing smile, Narada said, "Vyasa, your work is impressive, but it's like a grand feast missing the main course! You've detailed dharma, wealth, pleasure, and liberation, but where’s the heart and soul-the devotion to the Supreme?"
Enlightened by Narada's words, Vyasa realized what he needed to do. He set to work and crafted the Srimad Bhagavatam, a masterpiece filled with tales of Lord Krishna and divine love. This new creation not only completed his work but filled the hearts of readers with pure devotion and joy.
Once I heard my breath as if I was breathing directly into my own ear...at the time I couldn't work out whose breath or was or how I heard it in that manner. It was shocking, beautiful and of course the mind grabbed at it as a spiritual step forward...kind of, you know what I mean 😂
Wow, 🙏🐐
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You're the bomb Angelo❤️
Omg, so helpful❤
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I was playing with sound & listening to my husband snoring - on falling asleep it is no longer heard & yet on awaking it is there - before I have time to label it - thus making the observation that it does not require a me to be present - to be sounding itself....awareness of this too is noted....not sure what to do or where to look ....then the mind wonders what happens to awareness during sleep 😮
Yesterday I watched one of his videos and wondered, what the flip flop is direct experience anyway???... forgot about it until today this video popped up in my feed! The Universe has got my back eh?!!?!!!
Here is my point. If I go to the movies and all the time I say to myself: there are just shadows, sound, screen, I am sitting here. Why go to the cinema?
What about the option of freedom from freedom?
Remaining in dualistic experience happens for most, you are definitely free to do that.
It's not really something you would constantly say to yourself unless you're kind of fixating on formlessness. This isn't about thinking. So it's up to you if you would even want this and go deeper or not.
@@indef93 Ok, that makes sense. My point was indeed that there might be a greater freedom in not fixating on formlessness.
I have all of that
Haven’t finished watching and you prob agree but - while I agree that talking about “direct experience” is often a useful pointer, ultimately I don’t think you can find a fundamental difference between “direct experience” and “experience with a cluster of thoughts and interpretation”. The latter is also a part of “direct experience”, and if there was no such duality on a relative level then there wouldn’t be any basis to define different experiences at all. So one way to frame the “big idea” is that dualistic experience is already non-dual.
Yes! You can't not experience your experience directly. Usually this is meant to say: experience direct senses, not thoughts or opinions about them. Note that what is meant here by "thought" goes way beyond the typical internal dialogue about things.
I understand your definition, however that is not what I'm pointing to at all. The moment you truly taste non-dual (direct experience) you know damn well it's a vastly more clear experience than you ever remember.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake For sure, just that this “difference” (cue paradox about how it’s different but not etc) isn’t about excluding thoughts or interpretations, even if playing with that path is a good pointer. The thoughts and interpretations are themselves also directly experienced. My fav framing of it is prob Rob Burbea in Seeing that Frees.
A lot of people I think can interpret non-duality as being that you get rid of certain kinds of “interpretation” sensations like thoughts and spatial reference points and have this sort of trippy “non-dual” panoramic experience that is more “raw”. But (and I think we’d agree barring semantics) the cosmic joke here is that it’s actually seemingly ordinary experience, the same as it always was (in a certain sense - in another sense completely different).
@@Andy-lo9sp When Angelo talks about direct experience, it seems clear to me that he’s referring to direct experience *of the five senses* (not of thought). If he had explicitly clarified that, do you think you still would have made these comments?
And even with thoughts, it seems to me that not all of them are experienced directly either since we tend to have thoughts about thoughts.
Bro did you start writing ✍️ a comment without watching the whole video
All experience starts with direct experience, thought always is added on later, even if it is a mental image of the direct experience. When you actually go to the question of who/what is aware of that experience, not who/what is experiencing that, but who is aware of the experience, then there's silence. During these times, it is direct experience, thoughtless, identity-less. However this seems to be transient or difficult to hold on to and thoughts come up. When thoughts come up, awareness of those thoughts helps but often it's easy to get lost in the thoughts, especially if there's stuff happening. It's one thing to do all this while dedicating "practice time" to do it and it's another thing to do it in the thick of a busy life.
It's recognising that it's an effort at control that's the issue, once it is recognised that it is an effort at control, then it is seen for what it is and loses its power/hold. That's why thoughts race. It's an attempt at control usually stemming from fear? Happens often with me. So I/we start future tripping and then now thanks to self-inquiry, getting better at catching it in the act. Still, back to the busy life, that's when it's harder to catch it in the act.
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Been feeling that "withdrawing in, pushing out" so strongly lately, especially in meditation but also in general.
Like sometimes it feels as though "I" am looking out at physical sensation, it's ahead of me somehow, yet when there's an attempt to bridge that gap and get close and intimate (grasping and muscling?) - the sensations can suddenly feel so extreme, overwhelming.
Prickling, sweating, electrifying, itching, tensing all at once. Meanwhile, in meditation sounds often feel *completely* blocked out...
So fascinating! Really drives up that "What is the nature of sensation itself?"
Also curious what beliefs might it all rest on? That these intense sensations or sounds are "too much" or "uncomfortable", when really they could just as well be pleasant? Or that the sensation itself causes the discomfort rather than the polarization, the push and pull? Or that the discomfort itself is even an issue? That dysmorphia and illusion of control?
Feels like it could be any and none of them..
How exactly is a sticky belief discovered or noticed, really?
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Is a direct experience not the same as awakening or Kensho? I'm confused now.
so if i do these things will the cool guy i like like me back
60% of the time, it works every time
Yes for sure! But you have to wake up and keep dissolving the self structure. There’s nothing more attractive than emptiness 💎
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake haha that’s the truth - ur chanel attests ☺️
Consciousness and awareness? Yes. Look for that which is Aware. What is your Direct Experience?
You are not a Thing/Object in this World. You are the Space in which the World is happening.
Beautiful, incredible, fascinating
Great way of putting it. I was always drawn to feeling space before I had any glimpse into what this may be. Feeling space feels like a "pure" sense to me.
where is an object?….who knows about?😘…..where is direct experience of space?…..Maybe thought?😉
@@birgit8996 that was what was fascinating 😃
@@indef93 , yes. Step into the spacious Dark Abyss. The Dark Abyss is very illuminating. LOL 😝
So it's fourth dimensional experiencing?