Cut the Tether of the Mind
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About my videos: These videos are a resource for anyone wishing to wake up from the dream of separation. Awakening, enlightenment, and liberation are becoming far more mainstream possibilities than they once were. There are many good teachers out there, and if you resonate with the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, Rupert Spira, or Sadhguru, you might find resources here that address these deeper promptings to investigate your true nature.
Disclaimer: The information presented in these videos is not meant to diagnose or treat any psychiatric or medical illness. The inquiries presented herein are potent and can have powerful effects on the way you experience yourself and reality. If you feel you are at risk of harming yourself or others, these videos and practices may not be the best thing for you at the moment. Seek help wherever necessary which might include a hospital emergency department, a suicide helpline etc. 
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So simple. So sober. So down-to-earth. This is where the truth is.
You are getting better with the pointers every day Angelo. Thank you!
Or, you are getting better at hearing them. 😊😊 This experience is so true for me. I go back and read things that I had read previously and I "see" so many new things.
@@joedellatorre31Oh yeah, when I stumbled over this channel it felt like I couldn't bear watching half of the videos, actually the first time I watched a video of him I just quit it for months cause it felt so not in touch with reality (lol?), well with what reality felt like to me at the time. Probably my mind avoided it cause of the clarity of the transmission, maybe it wasn't right at that time and I needed do some more work on my relative self which did feel right for me at the time.
But now every video I watch is direct, is clear, even if doubt comes up regularly all day.
If Europe retreat happens one day, you can bet I'll be there 😎
also true probably :D@@joedellatorre31
I have so many things to say. First of all this is spot on. Second of all thank you, cause this is what I need now. This identifying is like becoming a false self and sitting as that self on a reflecting constantly train of thought, living as it. That super sucks, oh god it sucks. Third of all loving the new video quality, cam and mic super crisp, the lack of visuals and audio nice too, cause it's not so scary, I also feel more normal engaging in this topic, because of the way you speak now, it's more down to the ground
Same...prefer this style to the visuals/music.
Very clear description of the mechanism of identifying with thought. It happens so quickly, that you get lost in it. Will keep on looking closely . Thanks !
To me the first hook seems to be a mixture of excitement and fear. Fear from randomness of senses and excitement of turning it into something that I can control and play with.
For me the turning inward of the mind seems to be triggered by a feeling of discomfort at the arising feeling of not-self. It's not exactly fear - it's more accurately described as a fundamental discomfort with the feeling of non-reflection on experience. I felt trying it today that I was starting to get somewhere after doing this quite a few times with no luck. I'll definitely sit with this technique and see if I can look closer at the discomfort of nothingness. Why is not reflecting on sense experience uncomfortable for me? 🤔
Fun w non-duality: if I turn slow circles in the semi-dark, light and shapes are only an impressionistic blur before the brain has a chance to create distance or objects based on memory. The swimming pool is also great for breaking object-continuity right at the waterline w goggles on cuz the 2 visual planes above and below the waterline are so different. 😊 yes, folks, the capacity to entertain oneself w non-duality is endless 😂
An old farmer and his grandson lived on a farm. One day the grandson said, “I try to read the Bhagavad-Gita just like you but I don’t understand it much. And whatever little I understand, I forget it very soon. What is the use of reading this book?”
The old farmer quietly turned from putting coal in the stove and said, “Take this coal basket down to the river and bring me back a basket of water.”
The young boy did as he was told, but all the water leaked out before he got back home. The farmer asked him to try again, and again. But every single time, the water leaked out of the basket before he got back to the house. Finally, he said exhausted, “See Grandpa, it’s useless!”
“So you think it’s useless?” the old farmer said, “Look at the basket.” The boy looked at the basket and for the first time realized that the basket had been transformed from a dirty old coal basket to a new clean one, inside and out.
“Son, that’s what happens when you read a book like the Bhagavad-Gita. You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it again and again, you will realize the benefit one day.”
It's a cool story, however it would in this case be more productive to simply clean the basket on purpose instead of misguiding the boy into carrying the water, not revealing the true purpose
@@Hi_how_r_u_ The transformation of the coal basket becomes a metaphor for the changes that take place within us when listening to videos like this/spiritual practices or texts/Satsangs. The repeated effort has transformed the coal basket into a clean one. Similarly, repeated engagement with spiritual texts lead to inner transformation and growth, even if the benefits are not immediately apparent......"You might not understand or remember everything, but when you read it again and again, you will realize the benefit one day.”
There's fear of letting go of those suffery thoughts. The fomo is scared to let go of the fomo.
I don’t understand a damn thing your saying. But i feel it to my core. ❤
This is now one of my most favorite videos. 💜
You! 🌈
"there's a hook there, there's something believable"
For me, it was: I'm not there yet.
Attachment to special states.
Powerful and actionable! Thank you🙏
You're so welcome!
no time no space no distance from being alive so simple so beautiful so profound and it's always the case even while mind thoughts play ❤
A true gift. Thanks Angelo 🙏
“If you’re making conclusions you’re setting for reflections”. Yes, yes, yes! You are clear seeing talking 🙏🥰 thank you
Every once in a while, you maken1 just for me... Thank you again, Angelo ! It's funny how it really feels like that sometimes 😊.
You're still the best, my friend .
The first movement of mind I see is the sense of being located here, behind the face, in physicality.
the hook here it is the subtle reconfirming of the body sensations as “mine” and the constant reconfirming of being in an environment.
Your pointing is a treasure Angelo. Thank you so much ☺️❤️🙏
Just found your channel. Very clear explanation of my own experience of consciousness and the present moment.
Thank you 🙏I catch myself in fantasy a lot recently. Sometimes when I'm experiencing clarity, I have the thought "Is this actually clarity? Or is there still a filter that I'm not aware of yet?" Which level of reflection am I living in? ... It is all perfect
It feels like I was watching you through the eyes of my child self when I started this journey.
I love this style - it drops me right into the exercise you described and I can do it on the spot. I'll keep reminding myself to relax and just look. 😊
All we ever have is this.
😅😂❤
The pointers made the luminous threads more clear. The direct experience of seeing from when I was a baby came and went a few times, but the sense of I remained. Finally, I noticed a bit of “I” or “ego” to give up in a way that felt different from before, and it drained from the head to the throat into the chest like a funnel and got smaller and vanished.
Thanks to everyone in this community ❤ there is so much wisdom and beauty in the sharing of different practices and experiences and helping others find connections as well.
Does that ever stop Angelo? This binding into thought. Does that get better? For me for now, since this unbinding is fairly fresh, I feel this fear of both being bound back into thoughts about my life (my current life situation) and of letting go of those thoughts a.k.a not being bound to them, noticing the potential, but not engaging. Seems for me that there's fear of letting go of something and then doing myself disservice, sabotaging, letting go of something that I want and not doing it. I don't know how to work with that honestly. This is like a self fear, guilt, feels like I'm doing something bad to myself. I can sit in presence and not engage in any of this, keep deepening and living from it, maybe the answer is to never get bound back again and let go of some paradimes, find different ways, I don't know
Yes definitely
Beautiful. Thank you!
Thank you too!
The sense of self is so deeply ingrained in my subconscious that even when my mind is still there is still this pervading sense of self. Even when practicing self-inquiry or in meditation the sense of self never goes away whether i sense thoughts or not.
The mechanism became more obvious as my willingness to see the deep shadow grew.
Here's the thought that always gets me: How can I sit here and enjoy my Being when there are things like genocide going on? I dedicated my twenties and much of my thirties to trying to "save the world," and while I don't regret any of it, and hopefully maybe it did make some difference, it also left me feeling burned out and disillusioned. Things are worse than ever in so many ways.
I started a family and got absorbed in that (parenting is a whole trip, especially when you're battling childhood trauma and a very messed up society along the way), but when things got good, I couldn't handle it. I didn't know how to be happy. So I started my spiritual journey.
And now that that's going well, I'm back to my original question: How can I blithely enjoy my privileged "spiritual" life while so many people are suffering?
I believe intellectually that removing myself from the suffering cycles of the world is probably the best thing I can do. And of course I have no idea what the result of that will be, by definition -- we fundamentally can't predict or control things. But the guilt of "just being" while so much suffering is going on still gets me. And then I also feel guilty for getting tripped up by this, because it's nothing more than "driving with the brakes on." It's not helping anyone.
What I'm really probably afraid of is just how unpredictable and out of control things will seem once I break through. (I already know they are unpredictable and out of control. But I can still pretend they are not. I can pretend I'm not free-falling into the complete unknown.)
Maybe guilt is easier to feel than terror. Like you've said before, I can tell myself I'm not afraid. Intellectually I'm not.
But... yeah. This was helpful to write. Thanks as always :)
I answer this in an upcoming video :)
“I can pretend I’m not free-falling into the complete unknown” 🎤
I noticed this reflective mechanism recently and this provided some clarification and encouragement to keep investigating this slippery little trap. Thank you for the pointer.
Brilliant! That’s a masterpiece Angelo! Thanks for sharing this.
This exactly what I’ve been seeing in my mind. I’ve been watching for triggers when, pick up phone, stream of yucky thoughts, emotions arising and each time it’s a different thing that instigates the response. But I have seen each time what it is. Does this help to clear these? My mind is more peaceful each time, so it seems like it’s helping. Just stay with the watching?
This is really helpful thank you
Outstanding
Thank you❤
Thank you!
This is wonderful, thank you Angelo!
Wow ! This was so helpful. Thank you so much
Recently I've been trying to notice what it is that hooks my attention & causes me to become caught up in a stream of thought. Your video appeared on my suggested videos feed at just the right time.
Thank you Angelo for another very helpful video. 🙂
I will need to sit with this longer 7:50. There is still a believe of I know where I AM, at work with my collegues.. I start to feel where it leads to somehow. It feels like when I continue my day there is still something that believes this is real. I am also aware of the pull of the mind of tought. Yet something feels like holding it together..
Thanks❤
Amazing pointing
I don’t know, where I am at this moment, it’s like I can feel the sense of me, not much thoughts though. at the same time feels solid and Theo not real, like the the perception of me and of everything else is created by itself , but the mind is still attached to it soldity. I don’t know anymore, of I am explaning this right or just deceiving myself, it doesn’t feel like nothing special , just some tension and anxiety and then relaxation. Thank you for your videos, they somewhat help.
I feel you
really good video. Will keep trying to look closely. thanks
The only thing you need to understand is there is nothing to understand cuz there is nobody that tries to understand. Trying to understand is just a happening.
it‘s the I am -thought ,that overlays and is binding as person….thought is thougt and for no-one.
buying into the belief there are others...and there is a me
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8:00 I begin to feel like I'm something
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😶🙏🎯🎯🎯☮🛑✝🕉 Thank you-less you
Where would you draw the line between de-identifying with the mind and an awakening?
Constantly imagining myself
Holy S$@t!!!!!
❤️❤️❤️
That is the difficulty
Oh, another thing that trips me up: If my brain goes offline, and there's no one and nothing to reflect or remember anything, am I just basically a "dumb animal"? Stimulus, response, nothing more? Or total inertia? I'm apparently nothing more than an appendage that can be cut off without killing whatever I'm an appendage of. And it apparently "wants" me to sit around and look at shapes and colors like a videocamera that doesn't even record anything? It seems, well, empty. Meaningless. I know that humans manufacture meaning. But can we really live without it?
Isn’t it more the immediate perspective as a “me” looking from inside a body looking outside and then all those thoughts come? Just a thought 😂
It feels like an invisible thing materialising around my face throat when it’s not a trigger and more viscerally in the gut chest the bigger the trigger gets or is it before this??!???! Shall keep looking 👀
Dude, who are you and what have you done with our trippy, ethereal guru Angelo?
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10:10 whatever gets traction for you. For me, it’s every single 8 Bill of us are going to die. I asked my dog and she nodded with a very compassionate yes during one of our moments of connection and communication thanks to Magic from the realm of the unexplained-Able
Your voice sounds different?! Deeper, more gravitas?? Either you got a new mic or you awakened even deeper??!!
Or did I just shift into a new reality, like an alternate universe, or other realm perhaps, where everything is the same except everyone's voice is one or possibly two octaves deeper??!!
😂😂… just COvid
Sometimes I try to remain aware of awareness, while remaining “in the center of my head”… is this a good idea? Or is that too localized? It does seem to be effective, until I fuck it up lol
Are some thoughts not more reasonable than others? I want desperately to end suffering but am worried about abandoning the perfection of thoughts. Surely not all thoughts are equally useless, you are even searching for the right way to describe these transmissions in your videos. How do we abandon the value of all thoughts while also discerning the usefulness of some versus others? And isn't this the whole problem of suffering? Which thoughts about the future and past are "mere fantasy", & which are just *useful enough* ?
At what point is recognising a thought as "just a thought" bypassing responsibilities? I find this line of questions very frustrating.
Look differently at your dilemma. Can you abandon thought or anything else? How would you do that? You are worried about abandoning something? Are you lost in thinking when you are caught up in these concerns? What would it mean to look deeper? Can you wonder about what is really going on there? What is not thought?
These are doubt thoughts binding you up. When the suffering is acute enough something will let go bc it will become clear it is about identifying with thoughts... so WHO identifies??
Who is the one that’s frustrated? What remains in the gap between thoughts?
@@4991544 Hard to explain exactly what the problem is:
The body can be perfected (health) which requires discernment, that discernment will take the form of thoughts.
The mind can also be perfected, that discernment will also take the form of thoughts.
To push for awakening is to lay down all thoughts as mere thoughts, so I'm afraid of forgoing this perfecting mechanism. I've seen non-duality people speak incoherently and it bothers me because it does everyone a disservice. Sure, thoughts are "just thoughts" but some kinds of thinking are more ordered than others and to order the mind is to take that seriously, right?
Hope that makes sense.
@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I suppose I'm afraid of becoming undiscerning and morally impotent. Trying to inquire but this line of frustration with the "proper place" of reason keeps coming up
Is this to encourage the anatta insight?
everything is
I am almost through the second reading of your book. I am afraid I am still confused. It doesn't clearly say how to reach the first shift, I think - why? Or am I missing something? Is it correct that the Thought chapter is for pre-awakening, and I should concentrate my efforts there, and Belief, Emotions are for post-awakening, and Inquiry is for pre-awakening again? somehow?
Right there with you. Starting the book again...
All of the chapters are relevant for pre-awakening. It won’t be a linear process which might be why you feel confused about how to reach the first shift?
For me it feels like a Jenga tower. Like as it becomes clear that each aspect of identity isn’t true the tower becomes more and more destabilized. You won’t be able to make it fall but it’s inevitable if you keep doing inquiry. There will be new insights every time you read the book again. Hope that helps!
When I try to do that I get bored and sleepy? What am I doing wrong?
your voice is different here, the sensitive vocals are kind of more hidden by the deeper ones i think
From your point of knowing, do you have a sense of impending doom for this story we are experiencing? I've heard other teachers state the importance of waking up before what ever is going to happen happens.
For me it's that i'm a loser and the only one who gets any pleasure out of anything I do...is me. I kinda hate to admit that.
Sounds like you have a cold..
I’m running out of time