Awakening | Liberated at 23 Years Old

Is it Possible to Be Liberated at 23 Years Old? Take a look and see. We cover many topics in this video. We discuss inquiry, emotion, love, shadow work, no-self and non-duality.

[@dar_jada]

"Let everyone be right." No resistance. No resister. Just let go. "Speaking words of wisdom. Let it be." Paul McCartney's mother died when he was 14. He was distressed when 12 years later he could not hold onto her image. Then she came to him in a dream and said those words to him. "So in this dream 12 years later, my mother appeared, and there was her face, completely clear, particularly her eyes; and she said to me very gently, very reassuringly, Let it be.” "When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me speaking words of wisdom, let it be, let it be." No grasping. No holding on.

[@birgit8996]

Wonderful💛

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Beautiful. Love that song

[@nat998]

Paul was always my favourite Beatle, his melodic contributions are stunning. "Yesterday" came to him in a dream as well. He said that song wrote itself. He simply transcribed it upon awakening one morning. I adore a John Lennon song called, "#9 Dream " which is so gorgeously timeless for me. Have you seen the film, "The Butterfly Effect"? The character uses a journal to parallel shift into another alternate time line. Music is kind of like that "magic journal" for me? I can feel the whole world drop when I hear say, "Starless" by King Crimson. It's so bizarre.

[@dar_jada]

@@nat998 well said. I feel the same.

[@peterbuckley9731]

A tear came to my eye with the group’s description of love. It’s just so wonderful to see what our youth could have ahead of them as an “experience” of life. Training only 1% of our youth in the hows and why’s of awakening would transform the planet in short order. Bravo all. ❤️

[@lynlavalight]

It appears to me that is what is happening rapidly worldwide! So very grateful.

[@mat.se57]

Hello Angelo, thank you so much for putting out all these videos on such a regular basis. You are helping people all over the world to wake up to what we already are 🕊🤍

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I’m glad you all are doing the work! 😊

[@Le_Kinho]

Thanks for posting this conversation Angelo. I'm 25 and didn't understand the extant to which being able to relate to someone's life situation could amplify the resonance with the message. Also Matt's pointers are legendary lol.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Glad it was helpful!

[@stoinge]

She's captivating to look at. That completely relaxed calmness in her face, jus made me feel safe and better somehow without words. Love Angelo and Matt too, sucha good watch

[@sierrasandsunsets5499]

Thank you for sharing this talk with everyone. Beautiful beings. It's so nice to hear the clarity from these young people. I think their words and pointers from every direction will be helpful to so many people. ✨🙏🏼💛 With all the talk 'something about fish' early on in the conversation made me feel like sharing this: Reminded me of the story of the Fish that asked his fish friend “how’s the water today?” The fish friend not knowing what water even was. Yet it’s surrounded by it, made up of it and will dissolve right back into it. This is how "I" experience love. It is the All. It feels as if it’s the unseen glue holding all of This together. We’re just veiled to it, as mind keeps us in thought and identity for its survival, as this experience we’re having was meant to do. Yet the seeking is ever present in most wishing to return to its natural state, not even knowing what that is. We’re all just fish swimming around remembering something, longing for something, often never satisfied or in true peace. Some find that freedom and some do not. But rest easy, everything is and always has been love and it is in divine and perfect order however our little swim may seemingly be going.💛🐠💫

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Thanks for sharing ☺️

[@SamRoff]

Listened to this the whole way through while driving on the motorway yesterday and I was absolutely captivated. Found myself clarifying territory in the visual field. Love the baby prompts hahaha. They're very powerful. As another commenter said, I found the age similarity actually extremely effective in cultivating ardor toward practice. 'If they can do it, so can I'. Led me back to direct experience over, and over, and over again. And although I thought awakening was a priority for me in the past, let's just say it's absolutely #1 now. God there was so much gold here. As always, words cannot describe gratitude. BIG love to all three of you.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Thanks for tuning in

[@reneewalczak2012]

Beautiful conversation from these two young souls. Very inspiring and hopeful ❤️

[@billromas]

To hear from these 2 young people and their great openness and deep connection with all that IS... so wonderfull and a gift to All❣

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Indeed !

[@stoinge]

When Matt said "you drop so many interests which is scary at first but you get the whole universe in return" then Alma and Angelo start laughing was so beautiful man

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

As Tony Parsons has said, “Everything is a whole lot.” 🤣🤣

[@chriswilson5758]

I love Matt's use of the baby analogy. This is something I do too! I use the imagery of the pure fascination with the world from a baby's eyes as it looks about, reacts and expresses with spontaneity. It's such a peaceful image.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Love that!

[@birgit8996]

It's so great and yet simple that this conversation is taking place....just like that....brilliant.....and just what is happening....not special and yet wonderful✨

[@birgit8996]

It's like recognizing yourself in every word👁

[@birgit8996]

So clear....nothing to look for....nothing to find.....just thoughts....there is just this beautiful conversation here💛

[@nkp1656]

This is such a fresh conversation. That doesn’t quite capture it. It’s exquisite. Would love another one of these three two years later.

[@John4loYoutube]

26 YEARS OLD - UNBOUND = FLOW 🖤🖤

[@Kim-sherie]

Wonderful to hear these conversations 😊

[@MeyerSnekkestad]

This conversation is just bursting with unconditional love. It’s so so SO beautiful ❤️❤️ There are no words - and yet is so subtle expressed through words - like mystery - alchemy almost - 🙏🏼 - Oh thank you so much for echoing and mirroring these depths to the human condition - waauw❣️ Angelo - (angel), Alma - (soul) and Matt (as the evangelist)

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😊 nice to hear from you

[@grantsmith7208]

Life is living in love with the unfolding of a living love life.

[@tosvarsan5727]

This is so so so amazing, thank to you all. This is the reminder, the only true reminder. Thank you to embody the truth, thank you thank you.

[@Bsowow]

the best lesson in love (and authenticity) ever 😢❤❤❤ sooo deeply tuching, I'm speechless...

[@deanstrydom3937]

YES. Please more of this

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

!!!

[@rationalmystic5]

Such an awesome talk. You guys covered a lifetime of information in it. Keep coming back to this one.

[@tyvrymch]

Wow Matt All of you Dayum 😮 Thanks!

[@PeoplecallmeJerry]

I feel like when I wake up from a dream. My mind tries to make sense of what it just experienced. The images and the feelings in the dream are turned into a story by my by my mind.

[@nat998]

Thank you so much for posting these chats - only a quarter of the way through but it's extremely helpful hearing from people who've sojourned down the track. The bit where Matt is talking about the hypnotic visual field - if anyone has any experience of direct method of lucid dreaming where you traverse the borderland bet waking mind into slightly altered states of consciousness, you hit something called the hypnagogic state where you start to see visual orbs and flashing lights and if you see it through eventually the formation of "realer than real" visual images form, that move, eerily like what you take visual reality to be. It's a literal peering through closed eyelids to see forms materializing from absolute 3D blackness. Quite a trip. I'm sure I will have more nuggets of insight as I continue watching . I just had to post this before I forget, because I'm like a golden retriever with ADHD right now 🙃

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😂😂 love it. That’s interesting about hypnogogic states.

[@nat998]

Thanks Angelo haha... Into the second half and it's totally tops! 🙏 The newborn inquiry approach is actually something I've been doing instinctively for a while. When I look into the eyes of a baby I see complete emptiness, no emotion, no prejudice, like looking into a clear lake. There's absolutely nothing there. Always cracks me up when people say, "I wonder what they're thinking" 😂... Surrender has so many variations and interpretations - giving up resistance, letting go. I like the word neutral. That's absolutely it, it just feels like a momentum thing where the elements align just so and you tap into that ineffable thing or you catch the next ride. Like trying to find going to sleep - you can't quite bridge the chasm between states of shifting consciousness. You can prep all you like but how do you get to never never land? 🌈 You just do-it's a sudden drop and boom, gone!

[@nat998]

Perceptual fields are highly filtered for most human minds. There was a great book ("My Stroke of Insight") by a neuroscientist I believe her name is Jill Bolte Taylor where she describes her visual interpretation of reality after suffering a stroke. It's highly fascinating. The mind is definitely a GUI. Another similar documentary, "My beautiful broken brain". As well as the work of Iain McGilchrist on the two hemispheres of the brain - a good doc, "The Divided Brain". Just fascinating. Of course the mind structures this reality and self into existence. Amazing!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@nat998 thanks for the recs I love documentaries

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@nat998 !!!! Love it thanks for the comment

[@jameslu680]

From my personal experience there are these like habitual contractions after awakening that are much less "solid" as identity and gradually reduce in intensity. They're very much like automatic/reactive patterns something like residues of separation. But at this point theres nothing wrong with it just patience and a deep knowing. Because all of it is within what I really am, and I'm the space that allows for anything. A bit of speculation but I think post awakening and shadow work is about the small remaining things which have not been released. Metaphorically like cleaning a window, it is easy to clean 80% of it broadly but cleaning it down to 99.999% is time consuming and meticulous. But I'm reminded about a quote, "how to polish a brick into a mirror?". I think there is a more direct path but it is quite impossible to communicate with language.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes you’re right. Things can become pretty serene after awakening and some integration but the remaining fixating perceptions can be so subtle they can continue to evade the practitioner without sone skillful means. Sometimes that’s emotion work and sometimes specific types of inquiry. Patience is also key. A simple piece of advice can be this: Just stop all distractions and the ship will right itself. Depending on one’s conditions that may or may not be possible to implement.

[@life13525]

absolutely beautiful finishing lines...thank you all three...

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😊

[@Cp_9900]

These conversations are brilliant 🥳

[@rubyslippers9140]

Wonderful! Just wonderful :) Thanks :)

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

😍

[@n-xsta]

Thank you Alma your opening description is how it is here. Just nice to hear cause it seems so bizarre crazy 😅🙏🏾

[@nikotaylor]

I really enjoyed this format. It was a nice change of pace from the one-on-one talks (though those are great, too). I'd be happy to see more of these. Thanks for all you do to get the word out there about ... all this. 😀

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@wisefool8915]

Thank you Angelo.

[@annal2740]

Tiredness is a sensation and is generally unpleasant. Once you've had a newborn baby you absolutely do know that they think it's bad, because they cry a lot!

[@Samuel96889]

This is exactly what I was going through experiencing this video was experiencing my own mind.

[@anncairns1099]

Had to share your wonderful insight. Thank you all ❤️👍

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Our pleasure!

[@nodokurwy]

I was 23 too when it happens. Now Iam 34 and it is no rush almost at anything even when totally in rush. I even can watch TV informations and It has no outpost to reality and its funn when I have to speak whit family what I think about those happenings :)

[@DenisaNastase]

Incredible!

[@tim2269]

16:09 👍

[@TinyMaths]

Not totally relevant, but, Matt made me laugh when he talked about imagining that he could have any personal will to change the universe (at around 16:00). But today I went to my local park with the intention of sitting on a west-facing bench, wrapped up, with a coffee in the freezing weather to watch the (hopefully) beautiful sunset. It's a big park so you have a wide view of the horizon; so sunsets can be quite breathtaking when you catch them. Anyway, I said to my friend that was my intention, and that I hoped that the clouds wouldn't get in the way. So before I leave home, I notice some cloud cover which seems to be gradually moving towards west where the sunset happens. But I still go anyway. Now while sitting in the park, the clouds obscured the sun except for just above the horizon where you could see a yellow glow... in the end, there was no direct sunlight, so no glorious sunset, but the clouds had a kind of nice subtle rainbow tint to them; which was nice to watch. Well, after sitting there for about an hour, as I got up to walk away, I said to myself, " well, you failed at that ", meaning that I failed in my plans to see the sunset. But then it hit me; the idea that I failed implies that I would have been able to succeed through my own efforts. And then it hit me even more. But, what control could I have? I mean, that huge ball of glowing gas, apparently 93 million miles away, was in a specific position relative to the planet Earth, which revolves around that sun at a specific speed, and turns on its axis at a specific angle once every 24 hours, which allows for sunsets; then there's a weather system, that has clouds that move around constantly, or sometimes don't exist in a certain area of the sky, and THAT, allows you to see a sunset, (as well as eyesight),.... All of this is obviously beyond my control. I could have changed so many things, gone at a different time, stayed at home, gone on a different day, but the sunset would be there or not (from that very narrow position) whatever I tried to do. If there was any failure, it was the failure to realize that reality is going to do what it is going to do, independent of what I imagine is going to happen. Made me chuckle as I walked away, because I couldn't help think about the point made here by Matt.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

The mind is a funny place. Claims so much more territory than it has :)

[@rosaspierlaan9393]

It's so weird for me that I feel like I am getting this conversation....

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

That's because you are fundamentally awake nature :)

[@MeRetroGamer]

Truth isn't even love. Love is just what it looks like from the perspective of a contracted mind after it gets dissipated. It just becomes so huge, so expanded, so open and so utterly embracing that "love" is the only word that comes to your mind. But it's just like that because of the contrast with the previous, contracted mental state. So, in this sense, love is the most natural state of being. It's there from the very beginning, way before it could even be discerned. But it has nothing to do with the human sense of love that feels attached or directed to someone or something, which is kind of a secular love. There's although something about that human love which is about the true love, because it's about confidence, and that confidence let you open yourself, even if it is a limited and contitioned opening. *True/full love is unconditional. Everything else is still love, just limited/contracted in some way.*

[@annal2740]

What you seem to be describing with the baby example is the perennial question of whether it's possible to think without words. Are thoughts without words, without language, even possible, or are they simply sensations or experiences? A baby that is pre-language, that has no way to label things, is having a series of experiences, perhaps, rather than actually engaging in what adults would call thinking.

[@raygibbons8822]

What an enlightening conversation. I would love to hear more from both Matt and Alma (I'm already a big fan of Angelo). Do they have their own channels? Thank you all for the wise thoughts.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

matt garrett does have his own channel :)

[@AlastairGames]

Amazing!

[@tyvrymch]

Lol the top of my head blew off 🤯🤯🤯

[@joshstoltenberg1318]

💚

[@Susan-ol4ys]

Loved this, thank you all. Im using my everyday moment to moment ordinary experience as mindfulness practise rather than a specific time sitting meditating each day. Noticing the thought and and dropping over and over. Any view on this way instead of specific mindfulness sitting times?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I think that’s very good practice

[@widipermono229]

🙏🙏🙏

[@Buddhishgirl]

I remember when I was 23 years old I wouldn't have had a clue about what they are talking about! 😂 I was not remotely as mature as these young people. Happilly I have known for a few years now that it was just an illusion anyways 😅

[@pariniluniya9194]

Wow!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Right?

[@pariniluniya9194]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Absolutely. I've been listening to uncompromising non-duality for a while. Listening to a similar message with an essence of Love feels like fresh air. I love Matt's deeper understanding and compassion toward daily life & people.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@pariniluniya9194 your instinct is good ;)

[@pariniluniya9194]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake 😀✨

[@MeRetroGamer]

1:46:29 Demons 😯

[@VeritableVagabond]

Maybe I'm missing something, but it's not clear from watching the interviews 'how' Alma reached their first 'I AM' realization so quickly. I think I'm only hearing the after effects. Did they rest in unbound consciousness all day like you suggest? I guess I'm asking because I'm trying to relate to what they're saying and I feel I can't because I haven't had a first realization. I feel like a clear origin story of what they exactly before 1st awakening happened would give me hope.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

What Alma did very very well was inquired into every belief, impression, assumption, and emotion she had. She did it basically non-stop for 5 months. She didn’t meditate at all.

[@VeritableVagabond]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thank you for the direct answer! Haha that's pretty impressive. I really respect that. I've been getting into the groove of doubting beliefs and such as true. Looking at how I approach life, I definitely make alot of assumptions. Thanks again -- this motivates me.

[@shinrinyokumusic1808]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake is IAM the realization where suffering cease to exist?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@shinrinyokumusic1808 No :)

[@shinrinyokumusic1808]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake then I don't want it. For me the definition of awakening only counts when suffering ceases to arises and one always is In peace no matter the circumstances

[@JsThorn]

16:23 😂 totally

[@JsThorn]

24:00 exactly, at the same time it’s as if the “blackness” is always intertwined with the frames and it could just shift in that “black”, that Om

[@chadkline4268]

You don't define 'identity' or 'self'. And I never see 'liberation' as distinguished from a new knowledge, or state of mind, or frame of reference. I don't see anything that would not be classified as normal functioning, and it makes me wonder if 'liberation' is just an unhealthy state of mind, or frame of reference, converted to a healthy state of mind and frame of reference. It seems like cases of people with an overdeveloped ego now experiencing life with that ego released. But I wouldn't classify that as anything supra-mundane. The experiences in Buddhism are as real and direct as seeing with your own eyes and touching with your own hands, they aren't little shifts or noticing how the mind works. You mentioned Shanti and some quote about death. In my mind, I had a good idea that he actually experienced death, as real as suddenly being dropped off in Antarctica. And that is Cessation, and it is generally considered preliminary to enlightenment.

[@chadkline4268]

I think we all have a big problem with terminology, and related experience. According to the Buddha, it is a lifetime ban from monasticism to have sex. Same punishment as murder. Anyone claiming to be enlightened is defined by the characteristic of having no sensual desire remaining whatsoever, because this is the binding force of rebirth. And there is a western movement to turn all these things upside down, with a teaching that anyone can do anything and attain enlightenment. I'm not going to deny or criticize anything here, but if you read The Path to Arahantship by Maha Bua for example, or any of the masters in the Thai Forest Tradition, you will see that their practice and attainments closely correlate with the suttas. And they essentially rediscovered the true path in the 19th century, after being lost for centuries. Advaita is an ethnic religion, and unless you are native to Indian culture, it's probably not a wise path, because it's foreign, inherently. And I think it is being misinterpreted and misapplied. And I understand Zen is different, and it has its own way and techniques for various historical reasons. Regardless, I don't think anyone will find truly respected masters that didn't dedicate themselves for hours everyday to meditation. And traditionally, excepting in the presence of the Buddha, people didn't just become enlightened without passing thru at least one supra-mundane experience; eg, cessation. There are rare exceptions, and then a more mainstream approach that is more effective for most. Ie, the hard way. I think Buddhism and spiritually in general is going to cause a crisis and wreak havoc because of western influence. Some good may come if it, but more bad. Buddhism with sensual desire isn't Buddhism at all. It's in 180 opposition to everything about Buddhism.

[@chadkline4268]

Also, I should add, regarding the delight in great feelings (like winning a race), that this is also in opposition because feelings, whether good, bad, or neutral, are an attachment, a binding power, and not a symptom of release. They belong to the body, not the spirit. And anyone that would even want to have sex is not seeing things as they really are. If you remove the illusion of the Saran wrap layer of skin, nobody would even want to touch a body, let alone make love to it. There's nothing beautiful about a body unless you are delusional and refusing to see things in their totality as they actually are. And if you're not seeing the body as it actually is, you're probably not seeing a lot of other things as they actually are. Any desire connected with a body, any sensual desire, any indulgence in feelings, will bind to another body at death. That's the teaching and also my experience and knowledge obtained from Cessation. And at the time of death, sensual desires spiral out of control like never before. Right then, one binds if not completely devoid of them.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

A practioner doesn't have to know the first thing about Buddhism to wake up, even to become liberated (break all ten fetters). Buddha wasn't a Buddhist. Too much fixation on systems, paths tradition, authority can be a major hinderance if liberation is truly what one is interested in. Typically when this is happening, there is still a lot of internal struggle reactivity (desire/ill will to put it in Buddhist terms.). When that is addressed much easier to address more fundamental perceptual filters such as subject object construct.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I'll quote the Buddha here: (Kalama Sutta): It is proper for you, Kalamas, to doubt, to be uncertain; uncertainty has arisen in you about what is doubtful. Come, Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor; nor upon what is in a scripture; nor upon surmise; nor upon an axiom; nor upon specious reasoning; nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over; nor upon another's seeming ability; nor upon the consideration, 'The monk is our teacher.' Kalamas, when you yourselves know: 'These things are bad; these things are blamable; these things are censured by the wise; undertaken and observed, these things lead to harm and ill,' abandon them.

[@chadkline4268]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I am ok with the 1st+2nd reply. Agree 100%.

[@ashleytaylor994]

Anyone listen to Neville Goddard? He talks about having experience. Where Christ comes out of skull down the spine

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

I haven't, interesting

[@ashleytaylor994]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake He has a bunch of recordings on KZbin. He was a teacher in the 1930s. His belief is the "imagination creates reality" and taught the hidden message of the bible being about consciousness. I think you will like it.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@ashleytaylor994 interesting. Thanks for the background.

[@KimL101]

I think ppl still dealing with duality, mean “self-love” as in boundaries and not being a floor mat for other ppl🤷🏼‍♀️

[@integralsun]

Yoga maya.

[@pennywright335]

Please stop trying to infiltrate my my path at the moment you are hindering my growth I am aware of you if anything you can help by blocking the bad juju I have from my karmic family thank you

[@LONELYOLDFATUGLYHOMELESSBUM]

Does Alma have a website?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

She doesn’t.