Awakening | The First Three Steps (Includes Inquiry Instruction)

[@andrewrossroberts]

Thumbs up if you know awakening is the most important thing in your life

[@Robert85364]

Angelo, what are you doing here, this free and non-stop "teaching", this way of explaining that manages to make even an ignorant person like me understand in a few minutes what few centuries (years?) ago required moving to the other side of the world and studying ancient texts for years, all this.. is truly priceless. I don't know what drives you to do this but thank you. (probably implying the existence of someone who teaches and does something good etc shows my not being awakened)

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

You’ll pay it forward somehow I’m sure ;)

[@lashondasamuels6671]

That is sooo TRUE a d that's why we should gift him or join his classes. This is a great way to give $$. The process of receiving and giving is POWERFUL!

[@Robert85364]

@@lashondasamuels6671 i don't know/understand what's going on, really, with all this stuff and myself lately. If you know something more please tell me, i'm sincere. There's no need to use an agry tone, i will listen to what you say

[@jamestrover6851]

Well said. Agree 100%. What a time to be alive. Angelo articulates so well Ramana maharshi self enquiry and then some

[@Robert85364]

@@lashondasamuels6671 I expressed gratitude to angelo. Your message seems to accuse him as if there was something dishonest or a scam. Somehow, I know we are both right, wrong and neither. And somehow I know that you, the author of the comment, wanted to point this out to me. Thank you

[@flyprincess69]

My awakening came in 2017 after a devastating marriage ending. I was in a very low place in life. I entered a period of self isolation in a very quiet place. One morning I woke up one morning and I felt at peace with myself. This process took months for me. At the time I didn’t know what it was. I thought I was going crazy 🤪. It’s hard to put into words what I did. I told myself there was nothing wrong with me and stopped telling myself I wasn’t good enough. I stopped looking at the world with judgment and just looked at it with discernment. Anyway I could go on all day. Good look y’all in your journey❤

[@fizywig]

The first step of acknowledgement has the unforseen effect of seeing many of our desires and habits in everyday life as merely distractions from one's central discomfort with our life.

[@henkhooghuis1680]

It is crystal clear, so simple. I felt my thoughts disappear and I am not my thoughts but observing them. A sense of freedom.

[@Timxtrem1]

You are on fire these days and I love your videos!!

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

🐨

[@marianoelerosa4604]

Self inquiring or dramatazing my thoughts. This is how It goes.

[@dragdrag1507]

I came into this few years ago.. I made a wish on my birthday to be happy... after that, somehow I came across the book " I am that" I see the world so different now and I have inquired ever since without any results. At a mind level I understand everything but for some reason Its impossible to go beyond the mind! Maybe I am nothing at all and everyting is just an illusion.... I can see my thoughts and sometimes I ask myself why I am having these thoughts and they will disappear... than I go back to my corporate job and I feel like I've been chough in this matrix and its imposible to go beyond what I think and I feel. Thanks for these videos 👌🙌

[@FionaStrangeland]

I opened my eyes this morning and I knew that I was still asleep, and yet, in me is a self that has always been awake. Today, that is enough and I am full. Thank you for keeping my fire lit.

[@jamestrover6851]

Angelo , you’re a treasure. Thankyou for these

[@ericahevaun9924]

Awakening IS THE MOST important thing to me

[@nontimebomala779]

You are right about all the information out there and to be honest it was starting to become to much. A bit overwhelming so I’ve decided to unsubscribe from every spiritual channel and focus on one. And that one Chanel is yours. I felt I resonated with you the most. You have now become my awakening teacher/guru. You have so much information and I’m going to start at the very beginning. My awakening journey starts here. Wish me luck. 🙏❤️

[@nevermind5228]

Holy moly 😮 Following your inquiry instruction word by word carefully back and forth, I can experience exactly what you were talking about. It’s crystal clear. I don’t know what it’s or put my hands on it, or step back from it. But I can feel it in my bones. 😊 This is awesome 🤩 Thank you so much 🙏

[@gribwitch]

What do you feel in your bones ? How has your life significantly improved after that experience, if at all ? And if not at all, then what was the point ?

[@nevermind5228]

@@gribwitch Curious if you have followed the inquiry instructions in the video. Who is cooking those thoughts? Where and how they appear to you? When and how you are aware of those thoughts? Where are you before and after those thoughts? All the points we want to make is from this pointless nowhere which has no point

[@nevermind5228]

Oh I don’t have a life 😂

[@gribwitch]

@@nevermind5228 What do you mean by that ?

[@nevermind5228]

Would recommend you investigate your relationship with thought. Check Angelo’s playlist on thoughts - wonderful contents with deep insights and clear pointings.

[@demogadget]

The gift that keeps giving. Thanks.

[@thewayofnoway]

As I gorge myself daily at the non duality, all you can eat smorgasbord, resonance is all that matters. To drop in to this is so peaceful.☺️

[@gribwitch]

Yeah but what happens when it's over ? Back to mundanaiety.

[@benbrannon9907]

Some kind of butta shit i quess, not a reality at all! Sorry.

[@liviuclipa]

Three years ago i didn't even know this nonduality existed and i had this spontaneous dissolution of the self and everything dissapeared and there it was this pure existence. Fast forward 3 years and here i am reading non stop about it everything i can find 8 hours a day and I can't stop. Feels like i wish i never had that experience.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Can take a while for the remnants to dissipate 👀

[@gribwitch]

@liviuclipa - From memory I think duality means good and bad, right and wrong e.t.c. Are you saying that because of this experience you had, those things have ceased to exist or don't affect you any longer ? If so I don't think you're being realistic.

[@human5715]

thank you, I love these practical videos the most 👍🏽

[@alfreddifeo9642]

🎯🙏 Thank for this that is being pointing out to discover. Wishing love, grace, courage and understanding for all.🎯♥😶 🙏☮

[@qforlong]

That's the clearest pointing I have ever heard.

[@singhsuraj6192]

Thank you sir.....🌸

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Most welcome

[@yasminel-hakim4348]

Wow! The guided meditations and talks in the recent online retreat were so powerful! And this video has exactly the same power. Kogen suggested this looking for the thinker as well in one of his great Q&A’s. The retreat was so powerful, it definitely helped some opening to happen here. So grateful Angelo, thank you so much 🙏❤️

[@gribwitch]

If questioning your thoughts and where they originate, awakens you, then MAYBE I have done that without realising it. MAYBE. Because I can "see" there's something behind my thoughts. BUT.... is that it ? If so then as I asked of Angelo, what is the big deal ? Because IF that's what being awake is, then it hasn't changed me in any way AT ALL ! Certainly doesn't make me feel "One with the Universe" or full of love and joy e.t.c., as many report. How deflating then. 😐😔😕

[@David-i4q4n]

Hey angelo, could you do a video on derealization, depersonalisation and dissacociation and how they are different to the non dual experience

[@ganazby]

Thank you, Angelo.

[@jeffatkins1691]

Here it feels like it is all that is focused on , and there is no choice in the matter🙏

[@marzoratimanuel]

Hi Angelo, hello from Italy! I love your videos, they are so accessible to everyone, you are making the possibilty of awakening "popular", which is (in my opinion) great because awakening is EVERYone's right! By the way, your video are so accurate, with video effects. I guess they are kind of expensive. Is there a way to contribute (from an economic point of view) for them? I'd be glad to contribute for such a popular cause! I like you, I think I will choose you as a "source", maybe (I hope) one day we will meet in person. Thank you and have a great day! Manuel

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Thanks for your comments. Yes you can join the channel as a paid member and get perks at various level, all of that money goes into making videos, equipment, editing, retreats etc etc

[@georgeshepherd3381]

Thank you!!!

[@grants.6122]

Namaste , Doctor Angelo 😅 Yep, Grant again. I only go for the propofol Still attempting to have a private conversation with you. Never heard of transpersonal psychology and now I'm looking for one. Losing my mind, phasing in and out of different realities, major freaking health changes and I will be 71 in February

[@jimmierodgers1597]

“There is no entry or exit point… no process to arrive.” “If something tries to name it, that’s also it. The naming, the name, that which seems to attempt to apply the name, all of it is already this. Seamlessly this. Nothing has ever been apart.” 🙏🏼

[@gribwitch]

And this has a positive effect in what way ?

[@vijigowri273]

When I try to do this self-inquiry, I encounter intense resistance and discomfort, a tightness in the pit of my stomach and a feeling "this is not what I expected self-inquiry to be".

[@mindflayer8011]

Can I honestly claim that awakening is the most important thing in my life when caring for children and pets come first? It's definitely third.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Authenticity is key! 🔑

[@mindflayer8011]

Thank you. That helps a lot

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@mindflayer8011 It’s true, authenticity is always the way in bc it is what is happening in the personal spectrum right now. It can shift and change if course but attuning to this exact truth will always lead you a little deeper.

[@donnaholmes2522]

I used to feel guilty for this being before everything even my children, because it really is, I can now admit this and actual as it unfolds I'm much more present they get a better more fuller more loving more everything for them so it's a win win for me and them

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@donnaholmes2522 it’s so nice when you directly realize that fears and doubts are thoughts and you can essentially disregard them and orient to your heart’s truth

[@gipsymoth1574]

honestly, that first question made me realize how much I can't stand this stuff anymore 😅 I used to be so intensely curious and now I just find it to be too infuriating to continue. for now anyway lol :) thanks Angelo

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Gotta get to that breaking point one way or another

[@gipsymoth1574]

​@@SimplyAlwaysAwakenot if I completely avoid it until it happens spontaneously 😂

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@gipsymoth1574 That’s an acceptable way. Put enough effort into anything and something interesting will happen sooner or later

[@gipsymoth1574]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake love that!

[@gribwitch]

@@gipsymoth1574 That's my preference too.

[@ChrisTina-yc5fh]

Angelo, still no awakening but: I yesterday recognized that thoughts are not a problem as long as they are seen. There is no battle necessary, they can just be there. I entered unbound consciousness and experienced the waves you were talking about 😳. I felt them energetically through the body. After this meditation with fear barrier...Josh said this is a wild ride. It definatly is! !! 😅

[@kyliesmith2734]

If you are aware your thoughts are not you then you are awake

[@gribwitch]

@@kyliesmith2734 And the advantage of that is....? I don't see any.

[@kyliesmith2734]

@@gribwitch the advantage is when we work on not identifying with our thoughts we feel good and reduce negative emotions. Also if we can understand our thoughts are not always telling the truth again this can be liberating.

[@svenphil8879]

If "awakening" sounds to abstract or maybe scary, I would suggest for the first step: "Do you want to make unconditional happiness the most important thing"

[@gribwitch]

We all want happiness for as long as possible ( though I don't know how one achieves unconditional happiness ). But my question about that and the whole exercise is how does it materially change one's life ? How does it tangibly alter your life situation for the better ?

[@lydiaajohnson]

The not knowing where to start or how to hear my guides is tricky. The early joy and peace are Mostly gone replaced by intensifying thoughts about wounds I have received or inflicted. I am becoming noticeably depressed.

[@gribwitch]

Yes that is a concern in doing this spiritual stuff. From what I've learned reading about the "Dark night of the soul" experience, reliving our traumas from the past can be very upsetting and can go on for months or years. Isn't there a danger that someone who is already feeling down can be tipped over the edge into self harm if it all gets too intense ? Not that I want to give you any dark ideas of course, lydiaa ! I'm just saying that this is an aspect that no-one seems to bring up. Yet it's a real risk for vulnerable types, isn't it ?

[@Norbu421]

Thank you Angelo. The tone of this video feels different, less spontaneous, more contrived as if recording for some other project than KZbin: some App? Or the Marketing God taking over with the obligatory sound track?? Keep well!

[@liviuclipa]

He hired editors

[@JustDontMove111]

2:52 you can actually see Josh in the top left hand corner ( takes good eyesight) he's obviously playing the organ or keyboard or something

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Sounds like a conspiracy is afoot! How exciting :)))

[@Twobytee]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwakeare all you "awakened" content creators really just giant lizard people scheming to take over the world? I knew it!!!!! 😂 ;)

[@macaroon147]

@mikey it just seems like you've attached conditions to what you perceive as awakening material tbh

[@forestofechoes]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@forestofechoes]

💋

[@goomyz]

I am SO curious!! My inquiry the past week has been "What IS 'Just THIS'"? No answer yet. Or mu lol.

[@mellyo7262]

Wow…

[@Freedom080]

Its funny, 'oceanic being', 'knowingness beyond thought' and all the pointers attempts at describing I guess how this is compared to how it used to be I appreciate the pointers also what perhaps they point to feels so natural, so normal, that its hard to imagine that the experience here is different than what other people may commonly experience so I don't know if it is different here then say with tony at work I do have what seem like memories of the past of things shifting, though what shifted never seemed as clearly defined as what you point to in your videos I remember a perspective shift and thinking wow what a change, but don't remember what that was and then another it felt like a huge weight was lifted, but don't know what that was Life feels simple, and natural, and what ever this 'path' is, it seems to unfold naturally. somehow or perhaps no how lol its left a sense of trust in life, not in any outcome, just trust for no apparent reason

[@craig01001]

12:03 for inquiry

[@kyliesmith2734]

What is the aim of self enquiry? I am aware I am not my thoughts and that thought causes distress. I am awake to the no thought experience, I practice observing thoughts and acknowledging my ego, this is ongoing practice.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Have you experienced undeniable, more real than real sense of IAm?

[@kyliesmith2734]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I think there for I am, I don’t think still I am. Yes I understand what makes me is purely perception.

[@benjaminmiller3075]

Nice one! Feel like I'm falling forward, exhilarated...just sitting here. Surprised by realizing music was here

[@ChenathWanniarachchi]

Can you ever cause an awakening? Because i have been in "presence" one pointed to a single sound. I have had glimpses, collected experiences, let go of insights, built maps, destroyed maps, surrendered into deep shadow stuff. Alll disruptions are allowed, happy to let go of everything again and again, happy to hit the fear barrier a billion times more, Sincerely inquires into why i even want an awakening, what areas i wanted to avoid or fix by an awakening. Conpletely died into the validation seeking sensations in my body. My life has changed 360 surely but there is still no obvious doubt unriddled awakening? Edit: perhaps in all honesty, i am so tired from being in unbound consciousness and hitting the fear barrier and pushing myself to the edge all the time. and right now i have 0 habitual distractions other than thoughts. So its just awakening, awakening, awakening.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@ChenathWanniarachchi great, you’ve let go of so much and worked through so much. Now you have to let go of awakening, it is your final obstruction.

[@ChenathWanniarachchi]

​@@SimplyAlwaysAwakehow can I do that? Even letting go of awakening seems to have an underlying wanting of awakening. Even this question "how" is the same wanting spewed out.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@ChenathWanniarachchi It's not about letting go of a want, rather it is letting go of the idea you can somehow cause awakening to happen, because it is a dualistic concept until it isn't.

[@ChenathWanniarachchi]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Your video on non doership hit hard.

[@renakmans3521]

When you say magic happens, please give us examples…people might interpret that as a law of attraction kind of concept.

[@birabentjulien609]

There's one question that keeps popping in my mind recently while getting involved in this process and can't shake it off so to speak. What's the point of awakening? Or, I feel like I look at the awareness, but nothing has changed in my perception. I am in an ocean of confusion

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Check out my playlist called “Introductory Series.” It’s one of my favorites honestly. Covers very simple and common questions.

[@birabentjulien609]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thanks Angelo, I'll give it a listen. ❤️

[@gribwitch]

@birabenijulien - Hooray ! Someone else is asking the same as I am ! On the face of it it's hard to see how awakening makes such a ( supposedly ) profound difference to one's perceptions. But I guess there must be more to this, from observing those that have gone through it. They all seem very happy chappies.

[@Aquarius77]

Everytime I try this I start to space out and get extremely tired

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@Aquarius77 a good sign

[@macaroon147]

If I had money I'd definitely get a teacher

[@bjarkenielsen8515]

Most teachers died 100's of years ago. Begin with reading their material. It is freely available i pdf form.

[@jdubluffy1959]

Can pursuing awakening make the ego to fight back? Cause the more I do self-inquiry the more confused I become on just a moment to moment basis and I can’t even distract myself or find relief from this confusion anymore aka(even watching movies can never fully distract me)

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

Yes it does tend to, this is why a one pointed approach can be very helpful

[@oneom8158]

💙🙏

[@tyvrymch]

Pulling this out of my you know what lol

[@Marcelk86]

Angelo, my mind always brings up doubts, the hardest one that all of this awakening experience is just made by chemicals in the brain similiar like when taking psychedelics, e.g. all is matter and there is nothing like consciousness behind. How to deal with this and what is your view?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

What is revealed with awakening and ultimately liberation is the natural state free of distortion by thought. The brain chemicals are creating the distorting effect of consciousness. Psychedelics alter the chemistry and thus you notice altered states of consciousness . These can be and often are mistaken for realization. However the alteration breaks the stability of the illusory world created by consciousness and along with the side effects (altered states), this allows some direct access to the natural (unconditioned) reality. So there is some potential benefits to psychedelics but they can also become a trap.

[@Marcelk86]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake thank you so much for this detailed answer

[@billypilgrim8903]

What's occured to me recently is that a lot of these spritual teachings reinforce duality - eg a practice where you are supposed to 'focus your attention on something'. This in itself suggests there is a person who needs to focus on a separate object. Same with meditation, most instructions imply that if you do it long enough 'X will happen in the future', this creates an imaginary concept of something hapening in future, which is impossuble. I wish I hadn't learned most of these spiritual teachings, they sent me down so many dead ends and I suspect they're taught by people who aren't fully sincere.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

The seeking is a side effect not a result of practice. It’s good to be an aware of but doesn’t prevent awakening bc you are waking up to what is always already the case. No amount of seeking could make that untrue. Also seeking didn’t begin because you learned spiritual concepts and practices, it was already there and deeply woven into what you take yourself to be. It is just becoming revealed as your insight deepens. Lastly, these practices clearly work bc there are many deeply realized people who have utilized these various paths. I’ll quote Dogen here: The way is basically perfect and all-pervading. How could it be contingent upon practice and realization? The dharma-vehicle is free and untrammeled. What need is there for concentrated effort? Indeed, the whole body is far beyond the world's dust. Who could believe in a means to brush it clean? It is never apart from one, right where one is. What is the use of going off here and there to practice? And yet, if there is the slightest discrepancy, the way is as distant as heaven from earth. If the least like or dislike arises, the mind is lost in confusion. Suppose one gains pride of understanding and inflates one's own enlightenment, glimpsing the wisdom that runs through all things, attaining the way and clarifying the mind, raising an aspiration to escalade the very sky. One is making the initial, partial excursions about the frontiers but is still somewhat deficient in the vital way of total emancipation. Need I mention the Buddha, who was possessed of inborn knowledge? The influence of his six years of upright sitting is noticeable still. Or Bodhidharma's transmission of the mind-seal? The fame of his nine years of wall-sitting is celebrated to this day. Since this was the case with the saints of old, how can we today dispense with negotiation of the way?

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

What he is essentially saying is “Yes in one sense practice is dualistic and makes no sense. Yet far lot of good that does you to hold that view and avoid practice if you’re still suffering.”

[@billypilgrim8903]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake Thanks for the detailed response. I take your meaning, it's almost like you need to understand the mechanics of seeking or desire to realise it's actually a hindrance to seeing what already is. I do believe finding a teacher who can skilfully point out these distractions early on would only be a benefit though.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@billypilgrim8903yes exactly. Becoming clear on the mechanism of seeking itself is critical bc it is simply a distracting pulling attention into the mind. If one is identified with time, outcomes, benefits, cause and effect from the standpoint of personal will, then there is delusion operating in that moment. And that can and will be released more and more (less through intention , more through seeing the futility and dualistic nature of it). As True Nature shines forth clearly as “Just this.”

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@billypilgrim8903 also I should add, that your insight is no small thing and really letting that penetrate all of your expertise may be the exact “way” for you. This is the path of surrender, of embracing futility. This takes many people into deep realization

[@Memike66]

What if you are not sure that it is in fact the most important thing in your life. I would have said at one time it was(a very long time ago) but not now.

[@grants.6122]

PS My teacher, is recovering

[@emotionwave]

It's too simple to understand isn't it? The second you try and undertand it you put it in a box, it's just living fully here and now without being pulled back into analysis, categorisation, judgement - pure acceptance and being. You don't have to understand anything.

[@gribwitch]

But where does the joy, exhilaration, "Oneness" and all that stuff enter the picture ? "Acceptance: and "being" to me, isn't much to get excited about.

[@benbrannon9907]

Man Im 68 + now & after 64 of those yrs of hunting.the reality that was hidden I now know! But this your doing is i better not say! #1 is why are we here, what is the purpose for all this sh.t of a life! Why does everybody lie cheat steal ,evil acts! Not of truth,love etc.

[@swimmingbird238]

I can't do meditation properly because im a heay smoker. Is ther any way i can achieve smoking cessation?

[@bjarkenielsen8515]

Yep, don't light up again. That's how I stopped. Your problem is NOT smoking cessation/stop. You problem is that you light up again. Perhaps read the "quit smoking in one day"-book by Jan Geurtz. (or the similar one by Allan Carr)

[@Tommy7855]

Observing thoughts isn't self enquiry

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@Tommy7855 why not ? What happens when you observe thoughts?

[@silverhandle]

When you observe thoughts, this generally puts you in a “place” of non-identification with said thoughts, when this is your intent ❤

[@Tommy7855]

@@SimplyAlwaysAwake I'm not saying that it isn't a helpful practice, but my understanding of self-enquiry involves placing your attention on itself, effectively becoming aware of being aware; focusing your attention on the 'I' thought, your sense of self. Thoughts are objects in awareness, so by observing them you haven't fully turned your attention inwards.

[@SimplyAlwaysAwake]

@@Tommy7855 Did you watch from 18:00 on?

[@johndean8052]

Talk talk talk don't need the background music don't need you........ silence....

[@Lulubear0304]

❤